At my age of 80 years I can look back to a long life span. I was born in Allenstein in Germany in 1943, grew up at Kiel, married in 1970 a wonderful Dutch
girl here in the Netherlands, moved with her here in 1975 and worked as a historian at the Free University at Amsterdam from 1975 to 2001.
Photography had been my love since my first box camera in 1955. I stayed a busy free-time photographer for decades afterwards, but taking pictures really made a new start with my first digital camera in 2004. The Nikon D80 was added in 2007. When it definitely broke down in the summer of 2020, a Nikon D7200 took its place and was added to the Panasonic TZ60 that had accompanied me already for some time as a second camera.
Joining deviantArt in 2005 and Redbubble in 2008 as 'jchanders' and 'lightthinker' gave marvellous new opportunities. In April 2020 I joined FAA, though not giving up RB altogether. I am very glad that so many of you have taken an interest in my FAA gallery and its steady growth.
Let me end with two quotes: 'There is so much beautiful light in the world.' (Wilhelm Raabe, German writer) and 'Colours are the smile of nature.' (Leigh Hunt).
Juergen Hess joined Pixels.com Licensing on April 25th, 2020.
