Visual Adventures

Visual Adventures is a comprehensive photography resource at www.visadventures.com. The site includes Mike Hagen’s blog and regular newsletters that provide reviews and advice on photographic techniques, digital manipulation, and the latest gear.

Visual Adventures helps photographers improve their skills and learn how to capture images of superior quality through their hands-on workshops and guided photo adventures.

Visual Adventures purpose is to teach photographers how to bring their vision, passion, and their equipment together to create stunning stills. 

Mike Hagen

Mike Hagen is an author, photographer, workshop leader, entrepreneur, husband and father. At a young age, he merged his passion for adventure with his camera and later found the two to be the perfect pair for a business. He started his professional photography career in 1998 with his first photography company called Out There Images, Inc. Since then, he has continually pushed himself artistically and technically by expanding into books, video, workshops, lectures, consulting, and retail.

Mike currently owns and operates Visual Adventures (www.VisAdventures.com) along with his wife and business partner Stephanie Hagen. Over the course of their career, they have traveled, taught, and photographed in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Mike’s growing body of books include The Nikon Autofocus System, Thousands of Images, Now What?, The Nikon Creative Lighting System (1st, 2nd and 3rd editions), Nikon Capture NX 2 After The Shoot, and contributing author for The Wild Side of Photography. In addition to writing his own books, Mike has worked extensively with publishers as a technical editor for topics including Photoshop, Lightroom, camera bodies, workflow and travel guides.

Mike is well known for his engaging style, his humor and his ability to make complex topics easy to understand. He works exceedingly hard to make sure customers get more than they expect and his overriding desire is to help others learn to master photography and accomplish their photographic goals. As one of his Safari participants said best, “Mike should be called the fulfiller of dreams.”