A few words about me

I was born in 1981 in Lučenac, a small town in the south of Slovakia. I am a photographer focused on artistic photography of the nature around us. I have no idea where this passion originated and where it comes from. I never had passionate tourists or photographers in my family. So it wasn’t such a classic story that I was interested in photography from a young age. Although I remember from my childhood when my father in the apartment building closed the door in the kitchen, spread the containers with “conductors” on his jersey, unscrewed the light bulb and replaced it with another one, painted red, and shuffled the papers from container to container until some vacation photos. I must have been there a few times since I remember it, but I never felt that it affected me. Today, when I look at those photos, I always remember the “post-process” that I remember from my early childhood. My father’s car will probably still be somewhere, but I would hardly understand it today. The years went by and I still didn’t do anything, I was even uneasy when someone approached me to ask if I would immortalize them in some monument. I’ve always felt like I’m getting cold feet now. The turning point came in 2011 when I bought my first SLR Nikon D90 and admired the photos on various photo servers, and it went on its own with some breaks. Landscape photography completely obsessed me and I devoted quite a lot of time to it every day. I noticed how the better ones, whose photos I admired, do it. That’s when I decided that I had to prove it as best as I could. At first it was trial and error.
I studied the basic values of ISO, aperture, time. I tried to understand why some lens costs €300 and another €2300. I asked myself many questions and then looked for logical answers. At first I was more of a theorist, I understood almost everything, but I didn’t take pictures much, or rather didn’t. This helped me to decide that since then it is completely natural for me to go somewhere to take pictures. While I was just a tourist taking pictures, I was always restricting someone. Everyone is more or less in a hurry, so it is very difficult to take pictures. When it came to the decision to go to the mountains alone, just to take a walk with the aim of having a good rest and taking pictures at the same time. The photo of the landscape enchanted me so much that I was able to do completely crazy things for it.
Sleeping in the mountains deep below zero has become my hobby. It reached the stage where my photos began to be appreciated first in Slovakia and later in the world. This led me to the opinion that I could try organizing events where I would pass on all my know-how to other photographers. And so for several years now I have been organizing photo workshops and photo expeditions in Slovakia and beyond the Arctic Circle. I am a member of the Association of Professional Photographers of the Slovak Republic. I am also a member of the European Federation of Photographers, where I am listed as EP – European Photographer. I am also an ambassador in the world of photography for established brands such as VFFOTO, fstop and Benro, and I work closely with and test Nikon brand cameras and lenses. Jeeeémin, I don’t like these praises, but I looked around the competition websites, everyone is praising me, so I’ll say what I’ll do 😀. However, none of this would be possible without understanding at home in the family. So I have to mention Janka, Števka and Samko, who support my madness….thank you.