Michael Frank Stitt is twice an award winning Landscape Architect, Writer, Composer, and Landscape Photographer, with over twenty years experience, working in Australia, the UK, and across the Arabic Gulf States. He is a regular writer on Linkedin-Pulse. In 2014, he completed his second Masters degree: a Masters of Landscape Architecture, and was made recipient to two Excellence and High Achievement Awards: The City of Greater Geelong Landscape Award, and the AON Risk Solutions Professional Practice Award, Deakin University. In 2015 he was both the official Photographer and the Senior Landscape Architect on the Holy City of Mecca site project, abbreviated as KAAR. In 2016, he travelled to Japan to study the Japanese Shamisen, and took the opportunity to photograph and commence The Great Gardens of Japan Series.