My name is Jiří Šlapák.
I am an enthusiastic amateur photographer who enjoys walking in nature and hills, looking for animals and people. I try to record everything that happens around me.

How I started

Around the summer of 2016, I had a great idea: "I'm going to buy a camera!" I was a kind of orfinary ultrazoom from Canon. My relationship with photography started classically - flowers in the garden, family celebrations, or trips with my girlfriend.
Then I started looking for inspiration in old family photo albums. And these photos were great and high quality. "How is it possible?" I was thanks to an old Zenit TTL analog camera with a great legendary Helios lens.
So I started taking pictures with my first SLR and that was also end of my ultrazoom.
Now I shoot with a Nikon Z50 mirrorless camera, but I don't forget about analog photos that I started creating in the darkroom.

My photography equipment

  • Nikon Z50 with lenses Nikkor Z DX 50-250 mm f/4,5-6,3 VR, Nikkor Z DX 16-50 mm f/3,5-6,3 VR, Nikkor Z 50 mm f/2,8 MC and Nikkor Z DX 24 mm f/1.7

  • Nikon F50 with Nikkor 35-80mm f/4-5,6 D
  • Minolta X-700 with lenses Minolta MD 50 mm, Minolta 28 mm and Minolta 135 mm
  • Zenit TTL with lens Helios 44M
  • Minolta Hi-matic F
  • Lomo LC-A
  • Olympus Mju II Zoom 80
  • Flexaret IV

  • Pinhole made from Czech camera Corina