My name is Nathan. In my day job I am a civil servant at a European Union agency. My real passion, however, is photography. I carry a camera with me at all times, even if I am only walking the dog, because I firmly believe that one does not need to travel to exotic places to find great images. They are there, for the taking, in our everyday life–the trick is to spot them. So that is why I try to do.
Having said that, I do travel a lot, partly for business, and partly to visit my family which is spread around the world. I was born in Poland, grew up in Denmark, and have since lived in the USA, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and now Spain. This is what I look like, prowling the streets of Amsterdam with my camera:
The PAW is a project conceived by Kyle Cassidy from Philadelphia at the end of 2000 to spur the members of the Leica Users Group on to go out and take pictures every week instead of bickering about equipment. We are now many people around the world who more or consistently have posted these weekly pictures on our sites since the beginning of 2001. See my own efforts from 2006 onwards here, and the older stuff from 2001-2005 here. There is also a link to other participating Picture-A-Week photographers in the sidebar.