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I’ve always been interested in photography. I can remember getting my first own camera at age 8 or 9. It was a very simple instamatic camera, with a rotating flash cube, good for 4 flash photos. It was very interesting to snap little photos of all sorts of every day things happening, which to a 8- or 9-year old is 1000 things every day 
I have a few of the photos taken with this camera still, and I can see I was already then mostly interested in portraits, mostly of my female classmates
A few years later (early 80′s) I got a huge plastic Kodamatic (Kodak’s version of a polaroid) camera, but it was a bit too expensive to buy cartridges for it (I paid for them myself), so I didn’t take many photos with it, which kind of faded my photo interest a bit… Eventually Kodak lost a court case, forcing them to stop production of the cameras and cartridges, and that was the end of that…
My second introduction to photography came in 1984, when my parents, my sister and I went on a big trip to the US (3 weeks in 12 different states, since my dad had won first prize in a quiz show). My dad bought a Konica system camera for himself, and one for me too. My sister got a nice compact camera since she preferred that it was small and red I didn’t realize it at the time, but already then he made a very good choice (for both of us), which was to shoot with positive film (slides), which I later found out has much higher quality and much longer storage life. I used that camera for thousand of shots with sigma 35-70 mm, 70-210 mm, simple tripod and a flash.
After having lost a bit of interest in photography for some years (too many other things happening in my life) I bought a new Pentax MZ-5 system camera in 1995. It came with a kit lens, 35-80 mm (not very high quality). I soon bought a 80-200 mm lens, not very high quality either, but affordable (a mistake I won’t repeat after that). Then I eventually bought my first real quality lens, a 50 mm F1.4. I was totally amazed at the difference in quality and decided that I wouldn’t be using any cheap zoom lenses any more. I bought my to date most expensive lens, a 24 mm F2.0. With the 35 mm film format this is a good quality wide-angle lens. I also bought a flash with a diffuser and a good quality 35 mm scanner, to get the most out of the quality of the film. At this time I was mostly into nature photography, shooting wide angle landscapes, deep blue skies using a polarization filter, and still being amazed at every single short focal lens photo… The MZ-5 was an amazingly light and handy camera, producing excellent results in virtually every setting I tried it. I still miss it’s small and light body…
I continued shooting landscapes on slide film (mostly Fuji Velvia and Provia) throughout most on the 90′s and early 00′s, until I received an e-mail in 2007 that I had won a digital Pentax camera in a competition! Since then I’ve taken more photos than ever before (about 25000 since then). One downside is that Pentax doesn’t have a system camera with full format sensor, so the quality of my 50 mm and 70-200 mm lenses aren’t being put to their full use. I hope Pentax brings out a 35mm full format in some years, then all of my lenses will get their proper use, and I will find that lovely sweet spot that I can just get a hint of right now
Since I went digital my style has gotten much wider. I shoot often, and almost everything, and try to bring my camera (with the 50mm) with me always. It’s amazing to be able to snap hundreds of photos of things in every day life; my coffee cup at work, a rainy sock on the road when I’m out walking the dogs, a cracked piece of half rotten wood in a ditch… My kick is in noticing a tiny detail, and imagining how it can be shown and framed in another context, which makes people think a bit when looking at my photos…
If you want to check out some of my photos, have a look at the Portfolio in the menu on the top here, or click on my Flickr stream in the front page (that’s where I post almost all of my photos).
If you’re interested in the technical parts, here is my current set-up;
- Pentax K-7 (light and very competent)
- Pentax K10D (from 2006, mostly used by my girlfriend)
- Tamron 70-200mm F2.8 (really nice long zoom, very sharp and good macro)
- Pentax SMC-FA 50mm F1.4 (my favourite lens, albeit a little too “soft” for my taste sometimes)
- Pentax SMC-DA 18-55/3,5-5,6 AL WR (kit lens for the K-7, but I don’t use it very much)
- Pentax SMC-FA 80-200 zoom (on a shelf at home, I don’t even bother putting it in my photo bag)
- Pentax MZ-5 (old 35mm camera)
- Pentax FTZ-330 flash
- Dörr DAF-42 flash
- LowePro Flipside 400AW camera backpack
- A few memory cards (2gb, 4gb and 8gb)
- Old big tripod (doesn’t get used very much)
- Bunch of filters (81A,81B,82A, skylight, circ.pol etc.etc.)