Peter Holczer Photography - Wonders of Creation

I was born in Budapest, Hungary and I have been living here ever since. I'm an economist, photography is just my hobby. The pictures on this site were taken in the course of a few years, out of which only a year and a half can be considered as my active period of photography. In the recent years - since my twins were born - I've been focusing my attention on my family, therefore nature photography is almost completely on hold for me now. However, I haven't abandoned the idea to continue my favourite hobby in the near future.
		Photos: Ákos Holczer

Similarly to some of my contemporaries, in my childhood I was the happy owner of a SZMENA (Russian-made) camera. It was very easy to take photos with that camera, since even an amateur meteorologist could decide whether the sun was shining, it was a bit cloudy, heavily cloudy or it was raining. Setting the correct sharpness was just as tricky, depending on how many people could be seen in the viewfinder (just one, maybe two, or even the entire family, or a whole chain of mountains). Later on – to make it more complicated – my father completed the camera with a light-meter.
My career continued only several years later. When I began to travel independently, I never left the camera at home. During those years I took photos with cameras borrowed from my father: mostly a Yashica, later a Chinon CP-9 became my travelling companion. I liked the former one for its maximal aperture of 1.8 and the latter one for its changeable lenses.
Later a BBC Wildlife exhibition and the fact that my brother purchased a new camera helped me to make the decision: I bought my own camera. After that I began to expose with the new camera with ever-increasing enthusiasm. Then during a short trip I tried the reversal film. This met with my acceptance so much that I have hardly loaded print film into my camera since then. When my camera became one and a half years old, I noticed an advertisement about an advanced nature photo course led by Sándor Zsila.
At that time a new chronology began in my life in the area of photography. Theoretical and practical classes followed one another in the course. This encouraged me so much that I simultaneously took another intensive nature photo course held by Attila Korbely. Here we had the opportunity to take lessons from another well-known Hungarian nature photographer, Csaba Forrásy as well.
After finishing the courses both teams stayed together, so since then I am a member of Fényecset (Lightbrush) Photo Club and Fényvarázs (earlier Fototrekker) Nature Photo Club.

I take my photos – mainly using Canon equipment - only onto professional Fujichrome or Kodak color reversal films, therefore they can be used either in slide projectors or as perfect-quality enlargements.

The title of my site, “Wonders of Creation”, means that I primarily focus on photographing the nature, that is, the creations of the Creator.