ENTRY DESCRIPTION
It was another rough evening in the far north of Norway (Varanger). Heavy snowfall and strong wind gusts turned the background of potential images into a swirling chaos, perfect conditions for photographing wildlife. I was hoping to find a few Mountain Hares (Lepus timidus) braving the storm, just as I was. For this shot, I chose a slow shutter speed of 1/25s to transform the falling snow into streaks of light and to capture the movement of the wind. The result feels like a hare gazing into a cosmic black hole.

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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