Biography
Marijn Heuts (1977) is a freelance writer and photographer, whose main interest lies in nature & wildlife photography.
Marijn has only started photography in 2005, when he bought his first digital SLR body. Since then, things have gone very fast: a hobby quickly turned into a passion and he tries to be out in the field as often as possible to enjoy the outdoors with his camera.
His images and articles have been published in various books, magazines and calendars in his home country the Netherlands, but also in the UK and South Africa. Some of these books, calendars, magazines and websites include Grasduinen magazine, Vogelbescherming Nederland, Ontdek Afrika Magazine, SNP Travel Magazine, Game Parks Publishing South Africa, E&V magazine, Elsevier magazine and Quest magazine.
Marijn's images have also won several awards in national and international nature photography competitons, such as GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Asferico, Outdoor Photographer of the Year, National Wildlife Federation Photo Contest and Grasduinen Magazine Photo Contest. These images can be seen by clicking on the 'awards' link in the menu.
Although he mainly concentrates on photographing the nature and wildlife close to his home near Eindhoven, Marijn has developed a strong love for the African continent. Marijn has travelled extensively through South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Malawi and Zambia and takes every opportunity to go back to this amazing wild place. Other countries he has visited in the past, thoroughly enjoyed and will certainly visit again are Finland, Sweden, Norway and the UK islands.
Most images (mainly of birds and mammals) are the result of long hours of observation and waiting in a hide. Patience truly is the wildlife photographer's greatest virtue! Although inevitably the subjects of the photographs have noticed to some degree Marijn's presence, no subjects have been harmed in the process of creating these photographs. When a subject shows signs of stress and/or abnormal behavior, it is time to back off and try another technique or go after a different subject at all.
No photographs have been digitally manipulated, but because Marijn only shoots RAW images, it is mandatory that the usual processing steps in Adobe Photoshop, including levels, curves, sometimes a slight crop, saturation and sharpening are applied to achieve a final result. No software filters have been applied, Marijn advocates the use of creative techniques and/or filters in the field. Black and white images have been taken in color and have been transformed into B/W through the use of Adobe Photoshop. All images are a faithfull representation of what Marijn saw at the time of creating the photograph, with his vision and creativity applied through the use of moderate post-processing.