I practise the hobby photography from my 14th, but I believe my interest came earlier, when I was 3 years old. See the photos here above “in the past”. I am an auto didact.
First I started, of course with b/w and a simple camera (Agfa Isoli). I enlarged the photos with an enlarger made by myself from wood and an old camera and binocular lens.
After a while I bought another camera, a Halina Paulette Electric, with exposure meter. Also I bought a “real” enlarger, first a “Meteor” and after that a Durst M300. I became a member of Photoclub Drunen. From my father I inherited an old rangefinder camera, a Zeiss Contax IIIa brand.
Later, during my study physical techniques in Aachen, I lived in Heerlen and was a member of photo club "Het Motief". Here I practised the color enlargement also. (Positive process from Cibachrome) After my study I returned to Brabant and settled to Loon op Zand (1983). I became a member of Photo club Boxtel. But after a certain time I stopped for a period with photography. The dark room changed into a room for our child. From 2002 I have found the digital way. I used a Sony F717 and now a Sony Alpha 100 with a Carl Zeiss 16-80 lens.
Since 2009 I am a member of Phodia, a photogroup on internet. Everyone, from all countries can become a member. But during 2015 this group stopped due to a lack of members.
With a colleague photographer we started a photo club for elder people interesting in photography and want to make pictures on a higher level. Also from time to time we give courses in Photoshop elements.
I prefer abstract and architecture photography and landscape in an abstract way. But I believe, everything I can see, can be photo material.
"Who can see can take photos also. To learn to see can take a while however".
“I am learning yet......”
(Anonymous)
“You get eyes to look with, but to see you have to learn” (UG)
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