Greetings and thanks for visiting!

First of all, I am not a professional photographer. I'm just a 80-year-old amateur who loves photographing nature. I pursue precision, I love a sophisticated technique and following these words by Marcel Proust:

- "The real journey of the discoveries is not to seek new landscapes, but to have new eyes".

I am a macro photography photographer because a macro is an immersion in nature, in the little-known universe of small forms of life that I can practice at any time of the day and anywhere. I love the details that macro photography reveals, always surprising in shape and colour.

I was born in 1946 and started shooting in 1958 when my grandfather gave me an Agfa camera. Since then, photography has been very important in my life.

In the late 1960s, I bought a Nikon F Photomic FTN, a Nikkormat FTN and 3 Vivitar lenses. They were my first steps in the 35mm world. In 1972 I did several months of training in photojournalism and laboratory with the excellent photographers from Editora Bloch, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to enable me to photograph and record aircraft landings and takeoffs on aircraft carriers.

Since 1958 I have used Agfa, Yashica, Olympus, Nikon, Sony, Canon, Fujifilm cameras.

I stopped shooting with film around 1999. For a few years, I practised digital photography with full-frame cameras. I currently use only APS-C digital cameras, such as the Canon 80D with Canons MP-E 65mm, 100mm, 17-40mm, 400mm and 150mm Sigma lenses. For other styles of photography, I use Fujifilm Series X, and some Fujinon lenses.

My everyday camera is Fujifilm X100F. An amazing photographic tool! Currently, given my age, I'm thinking about reducing the weight of my equipment. I might switch to the highly regarded OM System.

I always shoot in RAW. Sure, I used Photoshop, Lightroom, and Capture One for many years, but I decided to advance my technique and use simpler software, so for the past few years, I’ve been using Exposure..

All photos published here are mine and original.