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We offer fine art quality wall murals and wallpaper of nature featuring the soothing and invigorating work of nationally published nature and landscape photographer Mike MacDonald.SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN TO REDUCE STRESS
One of the most important applications for Mike's nature imagery is stress reduction. Scientists at Texas A&M University have found that subjects who are shown a film depicting natural landscapes lowered their stress levels. Other studies have proven that images of landscapes combining open spaces, water, and trees are especiallyappealing to people.
University of Michigan psychologist Stephen Kaplan found that workers whose offices had windows with natural views reported less job stress than workers whose windows overlooked parking lots.
"When we tune in to nature, we're engaging in behavior that makes us feel peaceful, healthy, and safe," states the twice Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard University biologist Edward O. Wilson. Wilson's research in biophilia (literally, "love of living things") shows that humans have a deep, inborn need to connect with nature. "Attraction to natural environments is not simply a cultural phenomenon. There is evidence of a deeper, biological urge."
Our on-line world full of deadlines, traffic jams, and sterile settings provides little to satisfy this most basic human need. When asked to visualize a soothing place, nobody imagines a freeway or a shopping mall. Instead, most people conjure up images of wilderness, forests, and natural landscapes.
BRING A BIT OF NATURE INDOORS:
AT THE OFFICE
- Lower employee stress
- Increase worker productivity
- Reduce the number of sick days
HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS
- Provide a soothing setting for patients and concerned family members
- Give patients a beautiful distraction while they wait
- Reduce patient stress during the medical procedure or examination
AT HOME
- Cover plain painted walls with imagination & life
- Decorate your walls with impressively large and captivating art
All of Mike's images are available to be printed as wall murals or as wallpaper, however, there are far too many images to display on this website. So, feel free to look around in the various Galleries or simply contact us with your photo request. Call toll-free at 1-877-MAC-FOTO or just email us.
One fundamental characteristic of a Mike MacDonald photograph is how it invites the viewer into the photograph as well as evoking an emotional response. His work features every aspect of wildlife, landscape, and nature photography, from spring wildflowers to summer prairie landscapes, fall foliage to winter wonderlands, and moody sunrises to inspiring sunsets.
Photography Locations & Subject Matter Include:
- North American Locations
- The Midwest: Porcupine Mountains State Park (Michigan), Upper Peninsula, Michigan, Door County (Wisconsin), Chiwaukee Prairie (Wisconsin), Shawnee National Forest (Southern Illinois) and numerous locations in the Chicago, Illinois area.
- Chicago, Illinois area: Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Lake County Forest Preserves, Forest Preserve District of Will County, Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Messenger Woods (Will County - south Chicago area), Bluff Spring Fen (Elgin, Illinois - Cook County) Chiwaukee Prairie (Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin - Kenosha County) Wolf Road Prairie (Westchester, Illinois - Cook County), Lockport Prairie (Lockport, Illinois - Will County), Belmont Prairie (DuPage County, Illinois), Fermilab Prairie (DuPage County, Illinois), West Chicago Prairie (West Chicago, Illinois - DuPage County), Illinois Beach State Park (Zion, Illinois - Lake County) Pilcher Park (Joliet, Illinois - Will County - far southwest Chicago area), Raccoon Grove (Will County - Monee, Illinois - far south Chicago area), Black Partridge Woods (Lemont, Illinois - Cook County - southwest Chicago area), Spears Woods (Cook County - Willow Springs, Illinois - south Chicago area), Middlefork Savanna (Lake Forest, Illinois - Lake County), McGinnis Slough (Cook County - Orland Park, Illinois), Saganashkee Slough (Cook County - Palos Hills, Illinois), Maple Lake (Cook County - Palos Hills, Illinois),
Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve (DuPage County, Illinois, west of Chicago), Morton Arboretum (Lisle, Illinois - DuPage County - west of Chicago), Lake in the Hills Fen (Lake in the Hills, McHenry County - northwestern Chicago area)
- The West: Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming), Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming), Wind River Range (Wyoming), Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado), Yankee Boy Basin (Colorado), Arches National Park (Utah), Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah), Canyonlands National Park (Utah), Glacier National Park (Montana), Joshua Tree National Park (California), Yosemite National Park (California),
- The Southwest: Canyon de Chelly (Arizona), Grand Canyon (Arizona), Monument Valley (Arizona), Painted Desert (Arizona), Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona), Picacho Peak (Arizona), Oak Creek Canyon (Sedona, Arizona), Saquaro National Park (Tucson, Arizona), Sedona, Arizona, Sunset Crater (Arizona)
- The Northwest: Olympic National Park (Washington), Olympic Peninsula (Washington), Mount Rainier National Park (Washington), Columbia River Gorge (Portland, Oregon),
- The Southeast: The birds of Florida including Venice, Fort Myers, Ding Darling, Sanibel Island, and Everglades National Park (Florida)
- Wildflowers: Virginia bluebells, large-flowered trillium, prairie trillium, mayapple, skunk cabbage, blue-eyed Mary, wild leek, bloodroot, false rue anemone, dutchman's breeches, cut-leaved toothwort, swamp smartweed, hibiscus, swamp rose mallow, indian paintbrush, Liatris (marsh blazing star, rough blazing star), blue flag iris, purple coneflower, yellow coneflower, purple prairie clover, rattlesnake master, bird's foot violet, lousewort or wood betony, lupine, spiderwort, scurfy pea, partridge pea, skunk cabbage, evening primrose, prairie coneflower, black-eyed Susan, blue flag iris, prairie sundrops, false rue anemone, rattlesnake master, dutchman's breeches, cut-leaved toothwort, nodding wild onion, swamp smartweed, hibiscus, swamp rose mallow, indian paintbrush, wild bergamot or menarda, shooting star, Culver's root, lead plant, cotton grass, hoary puccoon, showy tick trefoil, foxglove beard tongue, prairie phlox, pasture rose, Joe Pye weed, common milkweed, swamp milkweed, nodding wild onion, butterfly weed or butterfly milkweed, yellow star grass, sand coreopsis, golden alexanders, compass plant, western sunflower, prairie dock, cup plant, tall coreopsis, sneezeweed, showy goldenrod, saw-toothed sunflower, tall goldenrod, stiff goldenrod, starry false Solomon's seal, flowering spurge, meadow anemone, wild quinine, whorled milkweed, mountain mint, prairie grasses, sedges, porcupine grass, prairie brome, big bluestem, side-oats grama, Indian grass, prairie dropseed, little bluestem, etc.
- Wading Birds & Waterfowl: great blue heron, great egret (endangered species), great white heron, black-crowned night heron, yellow-crowned night heron, green heron, little blue heron, tri-colored heron (Louisiana heron), snowy egret, common gallinule (moorhen), purple gallinule, white ibis, glossy ibis, pied-billed grebe, trumpeter swan, wood stork (endangered species), Canada goose (Canada geese), double-crested cormorant, mallard duck, ring-billed gull, anhinga, brown pelican, white pelican
- Other Birds: red-winged blackbird, belted kingfisher, rufous hummingbird, black vulture, osprey
- Reptiles: alligators, turtles, snakes
- Mammals: white-tailed deer, mule deer, coyote, raccoon, moose, elk (wapiti), bison, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, yellow-bellied marmot, muskrat
All images on this website are the property of Mike MacDonald. Embedded in each image is an invisible copyright watermark to guard against theft. If you have an interest in any of the photographs contained in this website, contact Mike MacDonald at the number above.
COPYRIGHT 1999-2006 MIKE MACDONALD PHOTOGRAPHY, INC.