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Hello! I'm Zoltan, a self-taught landscape photographer based in Fife, Scotland.
Originally from Budapest, Hungary, I made Edinburgh my home in 2005. Photography wasn’t something I had always dreamed of doing. In fact, it started quite simply. I wanted to share a few glimpses of Scotland with friends and family back in Hungary.
In 2006, I bought my first camera, a Fuji S5600 bridge camera. I had no idea at the time where that little camera would lead me. What started as a way of sharing the places I was discovering gradually turned into a genuine passion for getting out there and photographing them.
Over time, photography became a much bigger part of my life. I’ve learnt most of what I know through a mixture of books, magazines, YouTube tutorials and, probably most importantly, making an awful lot of mistakes with a camera in my hands.
There’s only so much you can learn from reading about photography. Eventually, you have to get outside, stand in the rain, wait for the light, take far too many photographs and occasionally come home with absolutely nothing worth keeping. That’s all part of it.
For me, photography is about much more than simply finding a beautiful view and pressing the shutter. I’m drawn to the atmosphere of a place, the way the light changes it, and those fleeting moments when everything seems to come together.
Scotland is particularly good at providing those moments. You can have golden light pouring across the mountains one minute, sideways rain the next, and somehow experience all four seasons before you’ve even made it back to the car. Somehow, it can all make for great photographs.
I use a Nikon camera and a selection of lenses to photograph everything from dramatic mountain landscapes and quiet lochs to Scotland’s cities, coastlines and even the occasional furry model. They’re not always the most cooperative subjects, but they do have their moments.
Over time, I also became increasingly interested in seeing my photographs as physical prints. There’s something very different about seeing an image on a wall rather than scrolling past it on a phone or computer screen.
That’s one of the reasons I started producing prints and wall art. I like the idea that a photograph can become part of someone’s home rather than simply becoming another image lost somewhere in a social media feed.
I also started creating a calendar each year featuring some of my favourite photographs from the previous year. It’s become something of a tradition for me, and a great excuse to go back through hundreds of photographs and argue with myself about which twelve actually deserve a place in it.
The calendar has since found its way to people all over the world, which is something I still find quite remarkable.
I’ve now had the pleasure of selling hundreds of prints and calendars to people around the world. Knowing that something I photographed in Scotland has ended up on a wall in someone’s home thousands of miles away is still pretty special.
Ultimately, that’s what keeps me photographing. I get to spend time exploring some incredible places, try to capture something that makes me stop and look twice, and hopefully create photographs that make someone else want to do the same.
