As a Landscape Photographer, I've been traveling around Europe for more than a decade now, often bringing paying customers to see natural landscapes and beautiful atmospheric phenomena on week long adventures in the wilderness.With my long history surrounding camera gear since well before the advent of digital, I've written about all aspects of photography. Often for tech, travel and online media clients with big names such as: » Nikon» Buro ScanBrit» Zoom.nl» Natuurfotografie.nl / PixFactory» MSI» Colorado Tripod Company» Breakthrough Photography» Landscape Photography Magazine» Fstoppers» PetaPixel» NatureTTL» National Geographic» BenQI'm an ambassador for and supported by f-stop gear, Breakthrough Filters and Colorado Tripod Company. Here's my short bio: I'm a landscape photographer from the Netherlands with a liberal take on the art of photography and image-making. My images are often dark, moody and ominous because my goal is to create art that makes me feel lighter. From my childhood years on, my fascination and appreciation of the natural world shaped my life today. That's why I'm a big proponent of the Nature First philosophy and donate 10 percent of what I earn with photography to conservation efforts. The discovery that photography has a cathartic effect on me, came about in 2009, when I first took photography seriously. Before that, matte painting and drawing were my primary creative outlets. But when that shifted to landscape photography, I suddenly knew visual kung-fu. To me, any form of art should capture the artist first and foremost. To register a time and place is not as important to me as the interpretation of it. That's part of the reason why I don't apply rules to my creative process; especially in post. The resulting visual aesthetic of my work is influenced by the artwork of Magic: The Gathering, a collectible card game, but also by movies like the Lord of the Rings trilogy and science fiction.

As a Content Manager and Writer, I continuously develop content strategies and explore business opportunities for the online sale of superfoods, CBD oil and health products. At DHS Services, I am the voice of multiple retail web stores such as Dutch-Headshop.nl, CBD-Expert.nl, Medihemp.nl, Wiet-info.nl and DeGezondeWereld.nl. My daily job is to ascertain the value of creative ideas through SEO research, customer service feedback and write new content based on current events that surround cannabis, entheogens, & psychedelics that are legal in the Netherlands.I love getting my hands dirty and biting myself into complex projects. As such I’ve fulfilled a coordinating role in two content migrations, one from the OSCommerce CMS to Magento 1.9 and another from WordPress to Magento 2. We’re currently planning to do another hop to move our biggest online webshop from Magento 1.9 to Magento 2 as well and in the process give it a stunning visual overhaul.Our team is quite small, which enables me to add value in various disciplines that are often very separate jobs. My primary role is being a writer, but I constantly bring visual improvements to our website and upgrade the user experience through coding efforts.A couple of the most fun projects I've worked on:- Restructure the main navigation (mega menu) of our biggest webshop.- Design and develop magic mushroom and space cake dosage calculators.- Design and develop the cannabis seed selector to narrow down the search among 200+ strains.- Assist in getting our websites as fast as possible (Lighthouse) without losing fidelity.- Design banners, e-books and other downloadables in keeping with our art direction.

As an Editor for Zoom.nl, I wrote daily articles to enthuse the reader to go out and pick up the camera. Zoom.nl is the leading Dutch photography platform with the goal of guiding aspiring photographers in their first two years of taking pictures, aiming to make them better with every click of the shutter button.I’d like to share an overview of my responsibilities and projects:» Marketing, representation and branding of the Zoom.nl brand on social media, website and on various occasions in real life (events and release parties).» Writing articles for the print magazine and for the website.» Setting up social media campaigns and managing social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google Plus and Pinterest).» Interviewing professional photographers and processing them into interesting articles that match the target group.» Editing texts from third-party authors for the magazine and the website.» Designing and developing an interactive magazine for Korean lens manufacturer Samyang.» Designing website banners and supporting imagery for the print magazine.

» Designing websites using WordPress and Magento in HTML and CSS.» Consulting customers about their websites and apps.» (Re)designing the user experience of various websites.» Designing and realizing an internal code snippet platform.» Performing maintenance work on various customer websites.

Before I started my retraining in 2012, I had a vocation as a process operator at the international steel company Tata Steel. It is relevant to mention that I wrote work instructions within this position. These manuals instruct both new employees and old-timers how to operate machines and new software step by step. It is within this that I've found my love for language and design and chose to leave my full-time job for a different professional direction.Relevant work experience:» Writing work instructions for the operation of machines, software and equipment.» Qualitative inspections of the product, machinery and production process.» Contacting customers about any deviations to the order.