About Steve Marks
Hello all and welcome to my website (which is still very much "Under Construction", hence a few galleries that
I haven't loaded any photos into yet).
My name is Steve Marks, and I'm a New Zealander who's been wandering the globe for the last half decade
(although usually living in friendly Chalk Farm, London, in between wanders ;-). That's me over to the right,
outside Suwon International Football Stadium in SouthKorea back during the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
I first developed an interest in photography back in Wellington, New Zealand, after admiring the photographic
work of a friend. I found an old, fully manual Minolta for sale in the Trade and Exchange which I took on my
first lot of travels through Asia and on to London for the first time. I've since spent the last 5 years making
London my home and going on periodic wanders mainly around Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North
Africa but with occasional wanders elsewhere.
I made the conversion from film to digital back in 2006. These days I shoot with a Canon EOS 5d - it cost a few
pennies but its a great piece of kit. Although I held on to my Canon EOS 30, so on those occasions I do feel
like shooting off a nice roll of slide film I still can. My principal lense is the Canon 28-135 lense, although I love
using my wide angle 16-35mm Mk II lense as well. I also have a fixed focal length f2.8 100mm lense, and a
75-300mm zoom lense as well.
I enjoy keeping a pretty varied approach to my wanderings - from trekking through the Moroccan Sahara to
skiing in Bulgaria, from sleeping in a bamboo hut in Laos with only a communal hole in the ground for a toilet
to the ritzyness of Cannes and St Tropez on the south coast of France, from riding a snow-mobile across a
glacier in Iceland to exploring Crusader Castles in the hills of Syria.... I've liked the word "eclectic" since I first
learnt what it meant and I like it more each year ;-)
2009 is shaping up to be a fun summer in the Northern Hemisphere - I got a ticket to the Benicassim festival
in Spain in July, and will probably travel around Spain for 2 or 3 weeks as part of that trip. I'm also heading to
Oslo for the first weekend in June, as on that weekend they like to close the city centre to traffic and have bands
and DJs everywhere instead. Beyond that, later in summer I will hopefully find somewhere to do my PADI
Advanced course, like Malta or Croatia, which I've been wanting to do ever since I did my PADI Open Water in
Honduras last year.
You can email me here: steve [at] stevemarksphotography [dot] com
I also have a blog that I wrote over my recent 7-month mission through Central America:
http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Steve-Marks/
