My passion for photography started back in primary school in the late 70’s, when my parents bought me my first camera – an East German Praktica – and I promptly began documenting the local birdlife around my town in Southwest Poland.

My love of nature and the outdoors has always been a significant part of my life, and in fact guided my choice of topics in high school (biology and chemistry), leading to graduate (MSc) and post-graduate (PhD) studies in geology.

During the period of 1998-2010, while working full time for large corporation, I have spent every minute of my free time travelling, visiting various habitats and ecosystems in the Americas, Europe and Africa.  While visiting most of the African ‘target’ safari countries many times, I became especially fond of Botswana, which represents a genuine wilderness with its diverse and unique habitats and is limited to few visitors, allowing for unforgettable experiences of being up close and personal with wildlife. However, places such as Zimbabwe with its unique guiding style and amazing habitats, Uganda with a great Apes habitats, as well as the iconic larger Serengeti ecosystem made a huge impression on my understanding of African biodiversity.

My love for African wildlife grew with every visit to the continent and finally, an important decision was born to share my passion for wildlife and photography with friends, colleagues and fellow nature enthusiasts.

On 15th December 2019 I launched my safari brand – Wild Encounter Safaris – and in the mid-2020 I have decided to leave the corporate world. Nowadays I resettled back to my home in SW Poland and focus all my time on wildlife photography and offering regular, carefully crafted trips for enthusiasts of wildlife photography (both advanced and beginners) as well as anyone else who would like to see African wildlife from a slightly ‘different angle’.

The focus of my photographic safaris is to bring everyone’s lens in front of amazing animal activities and situations, explore the role of light in wildlife photography, look for unique settings and never miss the ‘golden lighting’ opportunities provided by early morning and late afternoon sun. The key aspects guiding my photography are love of nature and empathy. Understanding animal behaviors is of the utmost importance to immerse yourself in the amazing world of nature.

Guiding and wildlife photography became my ‘second life adventure’.