Ever since secondary school I have been interested in photography. My parents gave me their old camera and I spent quite some money on film rolls, mainly taking snapshots of everything that would remain still before my camera. During my university study biology at the university I followed a course on microphotography which gave my understanding of photography techniques a boost. I bought my first DSLR and with the Kodak T-max films started focussing on macrophotography as it felt close to the microphotography I learned. As the years passed by photography was always present in my life; I tried different genres and took an occasional assignment.

With the switch to digital photography I started focussing more on bird photography, combining my passion for ornithology with that for photography. I took great pleasure in it, trying to capture all the birds I encountered on my trips. But in a way it remained “snapshot” photography and I was looking for more.