Photography has been my passion for many years. I remember taking my first photograph in 1966 with an Agfa Box camera

Photographers that had a strong influence on my photography are Andreas Feininger, Freeman Patterson, Jerry Uelsmann and many others as well.

I started collecting cameras in 1980 and later anything else related to photography.

I got into digital photography in 2008 with the Olympus E-3 DSLR and some basic lenses. Later I upgraded to the Olympus E-5 as my main camera and bought myself some really sweet Pro ED 2.0 lenses: 50mm, 35-100mm and 150mm (big, big lenses).

Since 2019 I am now using the Sony RX10 M4 and I love it. For macro shots I still use myOlympus E-5 with the awesome 50mm F 2.0 macro lens, the ring flash system and the Olympus Twin Flash system as well. I am not giving up on Olympus and will continue using the E-5 with my wonderful lenses - but not as often.

I am also using the E-5 to make digital copies of 35mm slides and negs, with my 80mm flat field corrected 1:1 Macro lens, the original OM bellows and slide duplicator set-up, with some home made ABS adapters.

My first ever two cameras (Agfa Record II, Revueflex E) were handed down to me by my dad, I bought my first SLR in 1974,

a Revueflex 3003 (Chinon). I have always carried a camera with me since the pocket camera days from way back. Over the years these ones were my main camera - Minox 35 EL - Olympus OM-2n - Olympus OM 4T - Olympus OM 1n - Olympus IS-3 DLX and now the Sony RX10 IV.