Susanne Holm
For all my life a violinist I am now in retirement and can dedicate much of my time to photography. I am amazed how much influence the creative stimulation of the photography has on my understanding of music and especially on playing and teaching the violin.
I got my first camera, a box, for my tenth birthday. Just as music, photography was always a common interest in my family. From one of my first salaries I bought a Nikon FM with a big zoom and my adventure of discovering the visible world started. I did a lot of darkroom work, black and white printing, until I switched over to digital photography a couple of years ago.
Past and current equipment used: from early Nikon FM and FE I changed to the digital Nikon D70 and D200 and now I use the D700 and the D7100 with -most of the time- the lenses 24-70mm 2.8 and 70-200mm VR f2.8, 20mm 2.8 as well as my old micro 55mm 2.8.
Meanwhile my photos were published in several newspapers, magazines, in CD booklets and on CD covers and shown in three exhibitions so far. Way to go!