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If you love nature and enjoy capturing it’s beauty, then nature filming is a logical choice. Jeroen started filming about 15 years ago, to be able to have a second look at what he saw in the field, to improve the quality of his paintings. He was soon asked if he offered those images for sale and since then he has filmed all kinds of wildlife worldwide..
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- “Photography or filming is not that difficult in itself. Just focus a bit and press the button and you are a camera person. But finding wild animals, learning their behavior, getting close and then ‘shooting’ beautiful compositions at the right moments: that is where the arty thing kind off comes in!”.
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After working for a number of years in the (international) wildlife film industry, where passion usually lost out to money, where the focus was mainly on having the latest technical equipment, where nature was often presented as if it was all fine, where ‘the story’ of the film regularly won from facts, with its sometimes questionable ethics and the use of tricks to make everything look grand and epic, he developed his own way of filming. In this, his small camera moves quietly through nature, with great respect and knowledge, to ‘capture’ nature as purely as possible. This gives viewers the idea that they are right in the middle of it themselves. During the day and at night, above and below water, wide and macro and at home and abroad..
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“I film everything as if people don’t exist. I try to keep every cultural element out of the picture, because I think pure nature is the most beautiful. A disadvantage is that viewers might get the impresion that there is still a lot of untouched nature. But that is not the case. Nature is actually incredibly ‘touched’. There is much less untouched nature left than we think and it is still decreasing rapidly worldwide!”.
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- Simply showing pure nature at its best for enjoyment and awe and trying to change the world for a bit better..
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