Hello, I am Boyd (Bud) van der Laan. I grew up in South Western Michigan in the small town of Hudsonville. I started playing around with a camera at an early age. Over the decades, my little hobby would come and go depending upon whim or situation. Around 1998, I became more serious wth my 'little hobby'. Early on using Velvia and Provia films, I became entranced with it's saturation. Around 2002, always kind of a techie, I started switching to digital. The immediate gratification of 'seeing what you got' is a powerful...more
