Mike Shipman is a self-taught, full time, independent fine art, commercial, and editorial photographer with a degree in wildlife biology. Mike is interested in wide-ranging subject matter and his background in wildlife biology and broad interest in all things gives him an uncommon perspective on our world. His color and black and white fine art photographs are in various private and government agency collections and he has exhibited his work around the United States and in The Hague. He has also designed movie posters and other materials for the award-winning Vietnam War documentary film Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor and an upcoming documentary film, I Married the War: Stories of Wives of Combat Veterans.