Mike MacDonald (born 1960) is an American photographer, photojournalist, speaker, author and conservationist.
[1] MacDonald's photos, primarily featuring prairies, savannas and other natural habitats around the Chicago metropolitan area, are internationally published.
MacDonald's photographic technique blends concepts from landscape and macro photography to create a three-dimensional, immersive effect in his work.
In 2015, MacDonald authored the coffee-table book My Journey into the Wilds of Chicago: A Celebration of Chicagoland's Startling Natural Wonders, a collection built over two decades of more than 200 photographs and 30 profiles of Chicago area prairies, savannas, beaches and forests.
[7] Publishers Weekly called the book "celebratory, soulful and poetic," and its photos "glorious.