ENTRY DESCRIPTION
On the rocky precipice overlooking the tumultuous sea, two Common Guillemots (Uria aalge) locked eyes in a silent avian conversation. Their sleek black and white plumage glistened in the coastal breeze as they stood, poised literally on the edge of the world in the far north of Norway.

AUTHOR
I was born in Sambeek, one of the smallest and quietest towns you can find in the Netherlands and live now in Sundsberg, Kirkkonummi in the south of Finland. I have been photographing nature and wildlife for over a decade, run photo tours in the Nordics on my own as well as for NatureTalks (NL) and am a public speaker. Published by various magazines in Europe and had an exhibition in Helsinki, named imaginature.

My style of photography is often referred to as imaginative, minimalistic, and 2-dimensional. For me, it is just important to respect nature and present the subject and surroundings in a manner of its simplest components, function over form. That is how I experience nature, that is how my photography has evolved over the last 4-5 years.

Less is more. I believe that is all what a minimalist style of photography should be about. In this context, minimalism using high- and low-key photography is about simplifying the reality by leaving elements and details out of a frame, removing them, or making them simply disappear, to a minimum that needed to get the focus directly on the subject. Isn’t there anything better than looking at a photo which triggers inner emotions?

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