Wildlife Photography Poland    -   Mariusz Pomaski

Apparently the most difficult to write about myself, such was the feeling I have right now, when I start to write these words. No doubt my biggest passions in life are Polish nature and photography.

My fascination with nature takes at least since high school and probably therefore the first faculty I have had finish was the Environmental Protection Faculty. Further directions of my education was oriented for professional work, and these were the Political Science and the European Financial-Economic and Legal Relations at SGH.

The second passion since ancient times, times of such photo cameras like Zenit and Ami was photography. After entering the digital SLR cameras to the market both of these my passion more and more started to come together and inseparably linked with each other.

The first steps in photography allowed me to get above mentioned cameras – Ami and Zenit. Then came the time to analog Nikon SLR.

I am currently working on digital SRL Nikon's  D200 and D300 cameras and “lightpower” lenses, such as: Nikkor 500mm f/4 VR (my main lens for nature photography), Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 VR Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR, Nikkor 24-70mm f/3.8, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5.

Nature photography taken seriously deal with since 2006. Improving technique through frequent site visits, reading photography nature literature in my opinion, brings more and better effects, and very fast enriches my knowledge of these far-flung areas. It also automatically sets new, ambitious goals and challenges.

In retrospect, I think they do not teach patience, humility to nature, and nothing shapes the character like many hours spent in the hides or long morning walk on the ground with binoculars or a camera lens on the neck. I am a member of the Association of Polish Nature Photographers (ZPFP) - District Mazovia.