The Beginning
Nature has always played a significant part in my life.
I spent a lot of time in the woods in my childhood, marvelling at the surrounding beauty.
The urge to capture the beauty of nature was a logical next step for me.
The Awakening
But it took some years until I picked up a camera to capture what I liked. The first years were harsh and unforgiving. Communicating my thoughts through photos was anything but a simple undertaking. The same goes for composition and post-processing. It was learning by doing, again and again.
The Searching
Photography is an endless path where advancement never stops. To get better at composition or attempt new things you haven’t dared to try yet. My greatest critic is myself, and I fail more than I succeed. It is this that keeps me going. To get better at what I do.
The Learning
I do like British landscape photography. Joe Cornish’s book ‘First Light: A Landscape Photographer’s Art’ was an eye-opener for me. It should be in every landscape photographer’s possession. His book helped me a lot along my path.
The Travelling
Over the years, my path led me to stunning locations in the high north of Europe. The untamed landscapes enchanted me. And they stirred something in me that is hard to explain. It might be the solitude and quietness, which is missing these days in more busy Central Europe.
You can read about my trip to the Faroe Islands at on landscape photography magazine. I also wrote an article about my adventures in Bornholm, a Danish island east of the mainland.
The Homecoming
Nowadays, I shoot close to home. I love exploring the woods and the countryside. There is more than big vistas, unicorns, and rainbows. Intimate landscape photos are often more satisfying and also more challenging.
Ansel Adams said: “Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”
