My contact with nature actually started a very long time ago. These were the times when I didn't have a camera yet, but I spent a lot of time outdoors and in the countryside.

My first camera was Canon 400D and it was used to start my adventure with photography. Initially, these were plants and insects. I took photos with old Helios or Pentacon lenses. Only after a few years did I become the owner of a Canon 10-22mm wide-angle lens. At that time I was practicing landscape photography. My interest in wild nature grew to such an extent that I wondered how I could get closer to it without interfering with it too much, so that what is wild remains wild.

The first Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 telephoto lens came to the rescue here. As it turned out, equipment is not everything and to take a good nature photo you need to be committed. It involved building a lookout, reaching inaccessible places, getting up at night to get to the place where I would take photos unnoticed.

All this absorbed me completely! The patience and perseverance needed in nature photography also taught me how to reconcile family responsibilities with this beautiful passion!