What is a Photofrenetic?

photo ---- pho+to n., pl. +tos. Informal short for photography
photo- ---- Combining form 1. of, relating to, or produced by light (e.g., photosynthesis). 2. Indicating a photographic process (e.g., photolithography) [from the Greek phos, phot, light]

frenetic ---- fre+net+ic adj. Distracted or frantic; frenzied; mad; delerious; [C14 : via Old French frenetique; from Latin phreneticus; from Greek phrenetikos; from phrenitis - insanity ; from phren - mind and heart]
frenetic ---- n. Fanatic, madman, obsessed person.

photofrenetic ---- pho+to+fre+net+ic n., Person obsessed by photography (not yet a real word - but who knows!)

Oh! He also likes beautiful women too of course!

Who are the Photofrenetic Photographers?

The question should be "Who is the Photofrenetic Photographer?", as there is only one. This is a one man dot com site and the owner is Mike Crawley FRPS. He is totally obsessed with light and the photographic consequences of its presence or absence (hence the name of this site). Creating images takes up most of his thoughts and all of his spare time. Although his passion is the photography of the gentler sex he also enjoys many other forms of photography, especially travel, landscape and natural history subjects. Mike works with both colour and black and white materials but prefers monochrome as the ultimate creative medium. Creating an image in the darkroom is a large part of the enjoyment - "he never tires of seeing an image develop before his eyes". The ubiquitous PC is also opening up a whole new area to Mike's image making talents which has yet to be explored to its full potential.

Mike's PIC cover image
of Justine King.


Mike's winning image
of Justine King.

Photography was always in the blood but it started to become an obsession with Mike about 12 years ago when he decided to take a photography module at his local college evening classes. The course was creative image making (posterisation, bas-relief and other techniques of this sort). He enjoyed this immensely and went on to complete and pass all the modules in the City & Guilds 9231 Photography course. Mike says "The module which took me by storm was the portraiture module. I loved it and haven't looked back since". Since then he has gained a Licentiateship (LRPS) and eventually a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS). Currently he is President of a Photographic Society and competes in many of the local, National and International Salons and Exhibitions. He has recently started winning a few gold and silver medals and commendations in some of the local salons and regularly has work exhibited in the Austrian Supercircuit, winning FIAP medals in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Mike also has numerous publications in his name and in 1992 was awarded the title of PIC Glamour Photographer of the Year 1992 by the now extinct photography magazine "People in Camera".

Since this site was opened in 2000 Mike has fulfilled one of his major ambitions which is the publication of a book on his photography called "Photographing the Nude" (see front page for details). If there are other publishers out there looking for new clients ............... then give me a call.



You can contact Mike by e-mail at mike@photofrenetic.com or by telephone at +44(0)1923-670650

What is the Purpose of
the Photofrenetic Site?

Mike on his
Imaging Workstation
at 3:00am!.

There are several reasons why this site has been assembled. Primarily it is a platform for Mike to share and show his work to the world through the GALLERY pages. The second, but no less important reason, is to build a tribute to all the fabulous and beautiful girls that he has worked with over the years. This is the PORTFOLIO section of the site, and is designed to show Mike's photography and help the models (where they are still working) get more modelling assignments. Last, but not least, Mike hopes to fund his passion by offering some of his work for sale through the PURCHASING pages. Thank you for visiting Photofrenetic.com - happy browsing!