I grew up in the Western Cape province of South Africa, in the (then) smallish town of Stellenbosch. A degree in Socio-Informatics led me to pursue a career in web design and development. After several years of rearranging pixels and writing in strange internet languages, I decided it was time for a change. Following this, I worked in very contrasting industries, from sailing in the Caribbean to farming in the Karoo. Currently, I'm fortunate to call the coastal town of Stilbaai my new home.

As with many landscape photographers, my love for the outdoors was instilled in me at a young age. School holidays were often spent camping and traveling through African countries in a Land Rover. On one of these trips I photographed an empty wave on the coast of Namibia that was later published in a local surfing magazine. I remember the feeling of excitement I got as a schoolboy, seeing my image printed in a magazine for the first time. This was still during the film era and although we've seen incredible advances in photographic equipment, seeing an image come to life in print is still as exciting today as it was back then.

Those early experiences sparked my interest in photography, but my landscape photography journey only really began around 2014. After a short stint working on sailboats in the Caribbean, I saved up enough money for my first full frame camera and some camera gear. Since then I've taken countless online tutorials and trial and error adventures to eventually get more comfortable with my camera.

I am inspired by capturing and creating artistic images of nature, with a fondness for long exposures and the ocean. Nature is by far my favourite subject to photograph. No two landscapes are ever exactly alike and neither will the experience of photographing them be. It is this ever-changing interaction between the natural elements that inspire me to create images that I hope reflect some of the extraordinary scenes that transpire in front of my lens.

Landscape photography offers me a way to express myself artistically, whilst spending time in nature. I don't think you can really ask for much more than that.