After a distinguished 37-year career as a photojournalist mostly with the San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Maloney is now retired and living in the historic mining town of Sutter Creek, California.
With the fast-paced, always-a-deadline world of news and sports photography behind him, Michael is now enjoying the slower pace of nature photography.
Michael is self-taught in photography, starting back in the days of film and darkrooms to currently using the latest in digital cameras and photo processing. His first love was landscape photography, however that took a back seat to a career in photojournalism when in 1973, he landed a job as a staff photographer at a small newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area.
His striking images eventually attracted the attention of the San Francisco Chronicle editors who offered him a staff photography position in 1980. While at the Chronicle, Michael shot a wide variety of assignments which took him literally around the world. Sports photography is what he enjoyed the most, covering many Super Bowls, the World Series, World Cup soccer and the Olympics. Michael worked at the Chronicle 30 years, retiring in 2009.
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