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My name is Andy-Kim Möller.
I was born in 1978 in the near of Frankfurt in germany.
I growed up in rural environment and nature was always an
important part of my live.
I spend my childhood mostly with camping, fishing and analyze the nature.
We caught snakes, watched birds and tried to catch the biggest carp in the world.
After my school time i started a training as informatican and
til now i earn my money with it. I am now specialized in touristic
internet applications like onlinebooking engines, and i am doing
this job as a freelancer.
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After a few years in my job i recognized that i was
missing all those "adventure activities" from my childhood. I missed
the hours in the nature. I started to change my holidays from big
allinclusive hotels to traveling in rough nature like dogsledging
in the north of norway or exploring the coast of namibia in a
kayak. And to keep my experiences over non-holiday times i started
to documentate my holidays.
My first camera was a Minolta X-300. I bought the camera at ebay
and started to a trip through the north of norway. We traveled
through the lofots and i did a lot of landscape pictures. When we
arrived in Andenes we rent a trip to the sperm whales and on the
way into the deep sea areas we met a group of orcas. I made
hundreds of images with this whales on it. I was so suprised of this
amazing animals that i was "on high voltage" until the pictures
arrived back from the laboratory. From my hundreds of images only
a few ones were really useable and this was the time when i decided
to change to digital camera.
Still a bloody greenhorn i bought a Minolta Z2 camera. Now i was
able to see my failures, but it was hard to handle the camera manually.
I made my experiences until i recognized that i was not able to
handle that camera fast enough to capture good animal
images. Sometimes even on landscape images the sun was faster like
me. ;)
Again i started to search for a new camera. The first digital
SLR. And some photographers believe that this is the most
important decision in their livetime. Nikon or Canon. I stand in
front of a photo shop (not the software) with a nikon D70 in one hand
and a canon 300D in the otherone. After i recognized that i was
not able to handle a canon camera i tried the nikon. And somehow
the nikon gave me a better feeling. By heart i was able to use this
camera without taking a look into the manual. The handling was
completely logical to me. I became a nikonian.
With my new nikon camera i started to explore the world. I learned
from books, do it yourself and workshops with the famous nature
photographers in the world. I read a lot of image books to learn
the tricks of my favourite photographers. I was interested in
everything i found and a big mixture of Art Wolfe, Fritz Pölking,
Michael Freeman and a lot of other books filled my regals.
I started to make some shows with the images of my trips. Private
shows with family and friends and get a real positive
return. After one of those shows i was laying on my back in my bed
and take a look through the window in the stars. And then i
started to think about selling my images. I made a plan. And i did
what i always do when i am start planing something new. I ordered
books, took a look into the internet, checked some websites of
some other successfull photographers. I decided to put some of my
images into microstocksites. This was the fastest way to offer some
of my images to customers and see which of my images start to
sell.
I sold around 300 images in a few weeks and did not even earn
150$. This couldn't be the right way to sell my images. So i am
now searching for an agency to sell my images and started this
website to show my images to the world.
and this is where i am now.
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| Images are finished |
| Hi Folks. The Southafrica images are finished and the upload is started. During the next days all images will be visible on the website. Enjoy the pictures of hyenas, buffalos, panorama landscapes and many more. |
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| Tomorrow i'm leaving ... |
| Tomorrow i'm leaving germany. I 'm flying to Jo'burg southafrica.
From Jo'burg i start a journey through blyde river canyon, kruger national park,swaziland, pakamisa, St.Lucia wetland park,dolphin coast, durban, Kwazulu Natal, cathedral peak and back to jo'burg.
I hope that i will capture a lot of great images, which i will present you as soon as possible on my website.
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