Author Archives: Misja Smits

It is time to say goodbye to my website on www.pbase.com. Normally I find it quite unpleasant to say goodbye, but luckily it’s less difficult when something new comes instead… Since I have focused more and more on macro photography over the past years, I thought it would be a suitable thing to set up […]

Nowadays, when you talk about a photographic portfolio, people automatically think about a digital portfolio. Your best selected pictures on a screen, on your computer or on social media platforms. That’s all fine of course, but today I’m talking about the real thing, about a printed portfolio. I come from the analogue era. When I started […]

It is Christmas Eve. While the world outside feels a bit restless with refugee flows, fear for and threat of terrorist attacks, deforestation and climate change, I try to find some inner peace. I find it in this picture. The importance of friendship and brotherhood is indescribably. Sometimes a picture can tell more than one can say. Wishing […]

It is this time of the year again. My challenging macro subjects have disappeared. No more flowers, no more insects and no more toadstools. And frankly I don’t mind that much. There is a time for working and there is a time for resting. About a week ago Edwin and I visited the beautiful Wadden […]