I think I was about five or six years old when I took the old analog camera from my parents. I made so many senseless pictures because I had no idea what I did. I don’t remember if they were angry, but I remember I had to throw all the pictures away.
After that, I was just playing Playstation 1 and doing skateboarding most of the time; I didn’t take pictures anymore until I was about 15 or 16 years old. At that time, we got our first digital camera and I was the only one who knew how it worked. I was 17, I started my apprenticeship and I decided to buy my own camera with my first salary. I have never put it away since then. My passion for travelling came from photography; every time I searched a bit further away for spots to shoot and with each time, I got more motivated to see more from our beautiful world. Even in Germany, my home country, there is a lot left to see: The Castle Eltz, Saxon Switzerland National Park, Jasmund National Park, Berchtesgaden National Park… And much more!
I think you perceive everything more intensively around you if you go somewhere with your camera, because you’re always looking for nicest sceneries or subjects to shoot. Every time I hold the camera in front of me, I calm down and turn off the world around me. It’s just soothing. Landscape photography is what I enjoy most and especially if I am shooting at places where I have never been before. However, as my family and friends know where to find me, and so my camera, I also shoot at events like birthday parties and baptisms, take photos from the children, and so on.
I like to try new things because it forces you to think outside the box, and to boost my photography techniques and knowledge I follow an online course from time to time. What helps a lot though is receiving feedback from others about my photos and watching the work of other great photographers to obtain inspiration.
The obtained inspiration and feedback help a lot when editing a photo; you develop a feeling of what fits with the picture. At the end, I want the photo to have a certain mood which makes that the viewer looks more than a few seconds to it. When I show pictures to others, I observe their reaction and I know when I did something right seeing the expression on their face. When I post on social media, I hope to get the same results. People should get a better feeling after watching my photos, it doesn’t matter if this is happiness, motivation, surprise, or whatever else.
It would be awesome if I can be playing a gig with a band sometimes, while keeping traveling and capturing astonishing landscapes with my camera. It is because of photography that I learned that our world is really, really beautiful. And that besides all the rush in my life, I can find patience and peace when I am in nature.
Eric is a passionate landscape photographer based in Germany whose love for travel and the outdoors blossomed during the pandemic. A trip to the Dolomites in 2022 turned his hobby into a deeper pursuit, leading him to capture breathtaking landscapes with both his camera and drone. Eric now combines his hobby with professional gigs.
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