Who am I?
Thank you for visiting my photography blog. My name is Zdenek Havel. I am a photography enthusiast from a small country in the heart of Europe, the Czech Republic. I was thinking about starting my own blog where I could share my photography journey for a quite some time. It was in 2017 when I decided I would stop thinking about it and actually do it. Therefore, in a few paragraphs, I would like to explain to you why I made this decision.
Past journey
The only online platform I was using in the past was Facebook. I used it simply to connect with my friends and schoolmates. When I studied abroad in 2015, I noticed how powerful tools can social media and blogs be. So I thought I might do something about it. I was kinda sad at the time that I could not share my photos from all the travels I experienced whole being abroad. Hence I set up an account on Instagram to share my photographic passion.
Back than I never really thought about having my own website. It just seemed kinda terrifying and complicated at the time. You know how is it? I had a feeling that I would not have anything particularly interesting to talk about, and to share. Nevertheless, as the time was going I was getting more and more serious with my photography. I have spent most of my free time being somewhere outside and taking pictures, whether it was in my home city of Prague, somewhere around Central Bohemian nature, or abroad. On the top of that, I bought a new camera as well. I simply tried to enjoy my time. Photography has become an essential part of my life in late 2015.
Why have I started blogging?
Since then I have enjoyed sharing my pictures on Instagram, getting the feedback, improving my photography and not to forget, being inspired by all those gifted professionals and photography enthusiasts from the Instagram community. If you follow me there (feel free to check my account and give me a comment) you know that I always try to tell a story with my picture. It may be about the location or about my feeling at the given time. Nevertheless, I always try to express myself and I will continue to do so but I feel I want to try a new ways how to tell my stories. And you migh have noticed, Instagram came a long way in recent years, not really awarding “simple” pictures. It became rather a video platform.
Therefore, I thought photography blog might be a good tool how to broaden my interest in stories. So, the reason for setting up the website, and the blog is rather simple – I would like to use it to share more thoroughly what I do about my photography, why I take images the way I do, and what I want to tell with them – simply my photography journey.
Finally, to give you a glimpse of what you can expect from my blog. I would like to share a few posts from my summer adventures. I have spent five amazing weeks visiting my girlfriend in Brazil. While doing so I had many opportunities to wander around some stunning locations such as Sao Paulo, or the tropical paradise of Ilha Grande Stay tuned for other blogs, and cheers everybody! In the mean time you can always reach me at my Instagram account HERE.
Zdenek
