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BIFA 2023

Pura Vida

  • Photographer
    Michael Schmidmeister

Taken in Costa Rica on the last day of 2022. While taking a few shots minutes apart to capture different light moods and playing around a bit with other settings I realized a surfer entering my scene. So I timed it and used him as an interest in my photo. With the surfer's silhouette in the otherwise rather boring scene I think this image depicts the Costa Rican way of life "Pura Vida" in a fitting manner.

Born in 1979, I am an amateur photographer living in Switzerland in the surroundings of Zurich. I genuinely got serious about my photography in 2015 through my dad – a passionate amateur photographer himself – who inspired me with his pictures and tought me the ropes of photography. In my spare time and more likely when travelling I like to take pictures. I focus on landscape and cityscape photography in which I am trying to find my masterpiece shot. ;-)