Matt Merkel Design

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Category: Photography

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]My Icelandic saga began with a 2-hour delay at Orlando International Airport. A delay which caused me to miss my connecting flight in Boston to Reykjavik. After being told there were no flights departing from the east coast that could get me to Iceland in time to save the trip I’d been planning […]

Matt at Grand Canyon National Park

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]In May of 2018 I returned to Arizona on a much-anticipated trip. I lived for nearly two years in 1986-87 in the Sedona / Verde Valley area of north-central Arizona, long before the age of digital photography. It was there I bought my first 35mm film camera and started experimenting with landscape photography. […]

Illuminations

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since moving to Orlando’s College Park neighborhood in 2012, I’ve been fascinated by the art deco design and colorful lighting of the Top Drawer consignment shop on Edgewater Drive. Driving home just after a heavy rainstorm one night, I decided the conditions were perfect to experiment with a long-exposure nighttime photo study of this architectural […]