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Like so many I started taking pictures with an old camera I was sometimes allowed to use from my parents. An old rangefinder type of thing from the sixties. I don't remember the brand. Making pictures was scarce, it was the film age. I bought myself an SLR, a Petri GX-1, when I was around 14 or so. Loved it, but buying the rolls of film and developing the pictures was expensive, so it never really took off and I didn't chase the dream. Later I messed around with scanning and digitally editing pictures on my computer, I bought a little compact 3.2 megapixel digital camera, that solved the costs of producing images and my photography kind of entered a new era for me. Slowly my interest for editing pictures turned into a new fascination for photography. A new Nikon DSLR camera followed and another one... and later a studio was build and a business was founded. Though I never persued making photography my big money maker, mainly because it feels to me more like art than business.
Nowadays I mostly shoot with vintage lenses on modern Sony systemcamera bodies. Vintage lenses add character. To me a picture, in order to be a good one, needs to represent the feeling I got in that exact moment. Explaining the why of me pressing that button. To capture the moment the look in someones eyes suddenly show a deeper self. Showing the sun giving that little flare that represents the warmth of that sunbeam. It doesn't need to be perfect, photography wise. Actually... I'