I am an engineer, writer and photographer.
My passion for photography sparked with street photography and portraits. Taking pictures of interactions between people is a favourite of mine. Done right, a picture of people interacting in a certain moment can tell us about the characters and their lives, their feelings, their relationship and their individual stories. I see street photography as a way of sharing experiences, locations and situations with other people.
As a stark contrast to street photography, nature photography is something that I also find very rewarding. I consider it as sort of painting with cheats. Seeing that I always found both painting and cheating to be respectable artistic forms, it shouldn't come as a surprise. For me nature photography is about sharing beauty that is a public domain. It is not about creating something new as much as it is a challenge of trying to live up to the beauty of the original object.
A year or two after buying my first camera I bought a macro lens. Macro photography, like looking through a microscope, is a lesson in the complexity (and the very existance) of life in unexpected places. Looking at a jumping spider up close and following it around for a couple of hours as you're trying to take a picture of it will eventually make you realize that this spider is preoccupied with its own life as much as you are with yours, and how complex this life is. Ironically enough, the best way to describe what I feel behind the macro lens is "seeing the big picture".
Added to the list is travel photography. Travel is a dear hobby of mine. In fact, I consider travelling a skill as much as a hobby. Getting to know a culture, a place, making friends, discovering rare experiences, overcoming obstacles. These are things that one needs to know how to accomplish. Similarly, taking pictures while on the road is far from unheard of, but if you do it well you can maybe make the person on the other side of the screen experience what you did, even for a second. At one point in my life I spent a year travelling by land all the way from Amsterdam to New Delhi, a total of 24,000km. I haven't yet found the words to fully describe my experience, so I took 28,000 pictures instead.
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