About

My name is Mikael Drackner and normally I work with development aid, a line of work that takes you to different continents and different countries. One such country, Bolivia, is a mega-diverse place with a spectacular range of landscapes, animals and plants. I called Bolivia home for three and a half years (2006-2009) but it wasn´t until I´d already lived there for two years that I took up photography, inspired by the natural beauty and my passion for it. At first I started photographing in order to document my travels and experiences, but after a while and after reading many good books on the subject I discovered that photography is a rewarding pastime in itself. I still mostly do nature photography however, and that is why you´ll mostly find that type of pictures here.

Bolivia was a rare opportunity to get up close with high mountains, deep jungles, steep cloud forests and vast savannahs as well as its inhabitants - and it also served me well as a base to other natural hotspots in the region such as the Galapagos and the Pantanal. Although a country of great contrasts and apalling poverty, from a nature photographer's viewpoint it was paradise. Hopefully, it is not the last opportunity to immerse myself into the wild and thus the last nature photo is yet to be uploaded on this site.

 

 

 

(c) Mikael Drackner