From childhood on photography is part of his life. For several years Wim Vooijs was a freelance event, wedding and portrait photographer next to his daily job. Nowadays he works solely as a process consultant for a dutch government organization, but is still a passionate photographer in his spare time.

Being a biologist by education, Wim is very much inspired by what nature offers him, especially in the close vicinity of his hometown Ede in the central part of The Netherlands. The emotion that comes with this inspiration can best be described as amazement. Amazement about the beauty that often can be found when you look deeper than just the surface.

This beauty and the feelings that it evokes, is what he likes to capture in his work. Translating it to images viewers can relate to and are emotionally attracted to. Photography is about communication and making contact. Contact with his inner self, the viewer but also the subjects, even how small they sometimes may be.

His subjects comprise almost everything nature has to offer from small insects like springtails, dragonflies and damselflies to bigger ones like the landscape, the water and the sky.  Each subject is approached step by step in order to break free from mere registration and to make an intimate portrait with room for feeling, emotion and fantasy. Results are ranging from recognisable to pure abstract forms. They all share a certain emotional content with the ultimate goal of surprising, stimulating and opening up the imagination to the inner beauty of nature.