Educated at a Dutch art academy, it took me a long time to fearlessly allow beauty back into my work (in essence, I'm a romantic). But that's what happened when I focused on landscapes as the subject of my photography over the past two decades.

It is in nature that beauty returned to my images. Not as a preconceived mental concept, but as a result of me experiencing the land. Now I recognize that a photo based solely on the “phenomenon of seeing” is worth looking for.