About me

Hello,

My name is Ted Sikkink and I have been making pictures ever since I was 6 years old! I know it sounds impressive but the reason is pretty simple, my father was a journalist and a die hard amateur photographer and so he teached me the basics and than gave me my first camera when I stopped biting my nails…

starting with that first Minolta reflex I subsequently purchased several other camera’s inlcuding brands like Canon and later Nikon up and till my favorite one being a Leica m5.

Besides following a fantastic TIME homestudy photo course which definitely allowed me to get to a higher level I later joined a photography school in Brussels which unfortunately turned out to be very technically oriented and so bored me quite rapidly.

There’s no doubt that if I had gone to an artschool type institute I would have become a professional photographer but things turned out differently and I ended up working in the music industry (emi, warner) and so remained an amateur (albeit passionate) photographer.

Like most of you I switched to digital photography,  6 or 7 years in my case, working with a very simple sony which I can put in my breast pocket and carry with me most of the time.

My goal with this blog is to provide useful information for anybody interested in photography.

Sincerely,

Ted Sikkink