“My name is Wim Bollen and I’m from Belgium. Some of you may remember me from my previous photoblog threehundreddotsperinch. That one has been long gone unfortunately. Since then, I moved to digital photography, but I may include some of my analog photographs from time to time. All photography is done with Nikon camera’s and editing usually happens with Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom.”
“Born on the first of may 1975 (don’t worry, I’ll skip a few years
) and based in Belgium. I had a normal childhood which got dominated by skateboarding. Later on, this challenging sport translated into travel and small scale expeditions. Each time abroad I got overwhelmed by nature and wanted to capture this on film (still or video). The spark was there, but it wasn’t for many years until it grew into a fire.
Photography got a serious influence on my life from 2004 on. It was my only interest and passion. Products, models, buildings, … it didn’t matter. Whatever your passion in photography is, you’ll definitely learn tricks and techniques shooting something else. But , to me, nothing beats wildlife photography, African mammals in particular.
Between 2004 – 2008 shooting microstock imagery dominated my photography. It all started with 2 paint lights and a white sheet. Two years later it funded part of my wildlife equipment, which was my goal.
In 2008 PCVO Waas & Durme asked me to join them and teach. Always willing to share insights and techniques I didn’t hesitate. The last two years I’ve been teaching the Basics of Photography, Black & White, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom and started a brand new Nature Photography course in 2010…”
Nothing like some great photoblogs to get the week started..The Hotel Moscow <featured>, Olivier Jules, and [survi:R]…In addition to my normal surfing habits in looking for new photography blog talent, Twitter followers and messages have surged in recent weeks. Not much of a Twitterhead, it does serve the purpose of getting the word out quickly about whatever it is you want to get out…In any case, enjoy today’s photoblogs, and keep the Twitter messages and “suggest a site” leads coming…