The Artist

Meet Michael J. Butt

During Michael’s early career, he moonlighted as a baby portrait photographer and later even had a short stint as a school photographer, but it wasn't until 2020 that he dedicated himself to studying the art of nightscape photography - photographing Nova Scotia's landscape at night with the Milky Way and its more than 500 billion stars as a backdrop! Michael has recently expanded his work to include some daytime (dusk and dawn, so not that much of a stretch) landscape and seascape photography, but nightscape photography is where his passion truly lies. Michael’s work has been featured by a number of international photography platforms and both new and established photographers have sought his expertise in creating nightscape images to learn his techniques for what many consider to be the most difficult and technically demanding genre of photography. While a photographers ultimate goal is to capture a stunning image, for Michael it's largely about the process of night photography, finding inspiration and peace in the quiet and stillness that can only be found in the dead of night.