
Michael Shay
Polara Studio
- Member Since: 1994
- Address: 614 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214-3558
- Phone: 503-233-4028
- Website: http://www.polarastudio.com
- Email: Michael@polarastudio.com
- Specialties: Food + Drink, Portraiture
- Areas: Portland-Salem, OR; San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
About the Photographer

©2016 Polara Studio Jeremy Dunham
The first thing you should know about Polara Studio co-founder Michael is that he’s a published poet. What does this have to do with taking pictures, you ask? Everything. Imagine Walt Whitman with a Nikon in his hands. An image-maker, not an image-taker, it’s estimated Michael has taken over a million photographs and can make a glob of Crunchy Jif on a Saltine look like something Thomas Keller would overcharge for at The French Laundry. It’s downright spooky.