Photograph of the Month - January, 2005
Little Monster © Arthur van Beveren

Photographer of the Month - January, 2005
Arthur van Beveren [artz] Member since April 01,2004

Arthur lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He's 19 years old and he studies Criminology on the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Since his early youth Arthur is photographing bunkers, forts and other relics from the both World Wars. From his 12th year he specialized mainly on German World War 2 bunkers along the European coasts. Every year he visits sites mainly in Holland and France. In the summers one- or two-week trips lead to further distances like Denmark, Germany, southern France and Norway.

In the 'early days' he was using a Canon point and shoot analogue camera which he got from his grandpa. He switched to a Konica Z-up 110 Super compact analogue camera, but with some zoom range. In that time the enormous amount of $175,- had to be spent. In 2001 he got his first digital camera which was the HP 315. Point and shoot to the bone, but he made some nice pictures with it.

In November 2003 he bought his HP 945 after about 4 months of deciding. The price was great though, the quality wasn't, he now has his third camera, the others had to be returned due to dust on the sensor and bad pixels. But this was probably bad luck. Although he thinks he made some great photos with this camera, he wants to move to a higher segment of the camera market. He's still deciding whether to go for a friend's second hand Minolta A2 or a new dSLR like the Canon 300D or the Nikon D70.