James Michael Knauf (Jim) is a Southern California-based photographer and digital artist creating fine art photography that evokes wonder, scale, mystery, and the meeting of the natural and engineered worlds. Coming from an engineering/aerospace background, his work merges the idea of engineering precision with atmospheric, even cosmic emotion. His diverse work includes award-winning landscapes, night-scape astrophotography, and images of aerospace, city streets, and architecture. 

Selected works have appeared at the Palos Verdes Arts Center member shows, The Artists Gallery, Covet Gallery, Gallery of Hermosa, and Hugo Rivera Gallery, and other venues in Southern California; Decode Gallery, in Tucson, Arizona; and nationally in the pages of Aviation Week & Space Technology Magazine.

James is Vice President of the Photographic and Digital Artists (PADA) group at the Palos Verdes Art Center.