Marjolein Katsma
New member
Hello everyone!
I'll spare you the convoluted journey that made me discover this place, but I'll say I'm glad I landed here.
Just a short little intro:
I was schooled as an artist at an Academy of Arts (two, in fact) in the Netherlands. Photography was not a major subject but I followed it for two years, treating it purely as 'utilitarian' (handy of I had to take pictures of an exhibition, I thought). But I ended up working in IT, did that for many years, ending up mostly in things related to web development and web (W3C) standards. My schooling as an artist helped there for things like user interface (think layout, usability, typography).
Meanwhile I got addicted to travel, and gradually started to pick up photography again.
A few years ago I added a small digital compact camera as a 'backup' to my analog Canon Eos 5, and a little more than a year and a half ago I switched to completely digital (Panasonic Lumix G1), with my trusted little Fuji Finepix F30 still serving as backup.
About a year ago I decided I should finally 'go professional' with what I was doing. So I'm still fresh there, setting up my online presence. Obviously I started with my digital work (I have loads of images on film that I want to scan, but for now time is short.)
I have an account on RedBubble since late December last year. Feel free to browse around my site there; by now it gives a pretty good impression of the sorts of subjects I like. Comments are welcome.
This week I also started to set up a site on PhotoShelter. I'm not giving a link for that yet, as I'll probably map that to a domain of my own, and it's nowhere near set up yet. Of course I'll announce that here when it's in a usable state.
Cheers,
Marjolein
I'll spare you the convoluted journey that made me discover this place, but I'll say I'm glad I landed here.
Just a short little intro:
I was schooled as an artist at an Academy of Arts (two, in fact) in the Netherlands. Photography was not a major subject but I followed it for two years, treating it purely as 'utilitarian' (handy of I had to take pictures of an exhibition, I thought). But I ended up working in IT, did that for many years, ending up mostly in things related to web development and web (W3C) standards. My schooling as an artist helped there for things like user interface (think layout, usability, typography).
Meanwhile I got addicted to travel, and gradually started to pick up photography again.
A few years ago I added a small digital compact camera as a 'backup' to my analog Canon Eos 5, and a little more than a year and a half ago I switched to completely digital (Panasonic Lumix G1), with my trusted little Fuji Finepix F30 still serving as backup.
About a year ago I decided I should finally 'go professional' with what I was doing. So I'm still fresh there, setting up my online presence. Obviously I started with my digital work (I have loads of images on film that I want to scan, but for now time is short.)
I have an account on RedBubble since late December last year. Feel free to browse around my site there; by now it gives a pretty good impression of the sorts of subjects I like. Comments are welcome.
This week I also started to set up a site on PhotoShelter. I'm not giving a link for that yet, as I'll probably map that to a domain of my own, and it's nowhere near set up yet. Of course I'll announce that here when it's in a usable state.
Cheers,
Marjolein