Contact

Klaus Tamm,
Mail: tamm.photography [at] posteo.de

Information

I’ve been interested in nature since I was a child. I come from a hunting family and as a little boy I was fascinated by the photos of animals in my father’s hunting magazines. Inspired by them, I bought myself an SLR camera with a small telephoto lens as a teenager. In 2005 I first started taking nature photography seriously and it was in that year that I bought my first digital camera.

It’s always been my intention to sensitise people to nature through my photography. I aim to create artistic images that encourage the observer to pause for a moment and reflect. My photography excursions have taken me to remote regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania and Spain, and also to South Africa, South America and the Falkland Islands.

Nature photography is my hobby. I run my own waste disposal business in Wuppertal/ Germany by profession.

Foto: Werner Bollmann

Awards

GDT Naturfotografen-Wettbewerb (Society of German Wildlife Photographers)

2009	1. Place Mammals "Eilig"
2010	1. Place Other Animals "Wespenspinne"
2012	1. Place / Overall winner of the year "Krötenwanderung"
2012	2. Place Plants "Sonnentau"
2013	1. Place Other Animals "Im Spotlight"
2013	Highly Commended Other Animals "Baldachinspinne"
2013	Highly Commended Other Animals "Lauerstellung"
2013	Highly Commended Plants "Mooskapsel"
2014	4. Place Birds "Schöner Rücken"
2014	1. Place Plants & Fungi "Spotlight im Wald"
2014	4. Place Plants & Fungi "Waldhyazinthe"
2015	1. Place Overall Winner Of The Year "Sumpfsiegwurz"
2015	3. Place Birds "Abendsänger"
2015	5. Place Other Animals "Krötenzauber"
2016	5. Place Birds "Im dichten Fichtenwald"
2016	7. Place Birds "Nachts bei Vollmond"
2017	1. Place Birds & Award of the Jury "Abendidylle"
2017	3. Place Black/White "Spidergirl"
2017	9. Place Other Animals "Spät abends im Steineichenwald"
2018	1. Place Other Animals "Unbekanntes Flugobjekt"
2019	1. Place Over all winner of the year "Plagegeist"
2019	2. Place Birds "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
2019	2. Place Mammals "Begegnung am Waldrand"
2019	6. Place Other Animals "Am Wegesrand"
2020	2. Place Plants "Im letzten Licht"
2021	5. Place Birds "Herbststimmung"
2021	4. Place Special Category "Geschwisterliebe"

European Nature Photographer of the Year

2006	Highly Commended Birds "Im Sandsturm"
2006	Highly Commended Nature "Tau im Spinnennetz"
2008	Highly Commended Other Animals "Hängepartie"
2008	Highly Commended Nature "Sonnentau"
2012	2. Place Other Animals "First Kiss"
2013	Highly Commended Plants "Lichtspiel"
2013	Highly Commended Plants "Blaue Stunde"
2016	1. Place Birds "Märchenstunde"
2017	1. Place Birds "Abendstimmung am Moorsee"
2019	Highly Commended Birds "Haubenlerche"
2019	Highly Commended Other Animals "Empfangsbereit"
2022	Highly Commended Mammals "Im Kiefernwald"
2022	Highly Commended Birds "Schneekulisse"

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

2009	Finalist Animal Portraits "Hare Sitting Tight"
2012	Finalist Cold-Blooded Animals "Sizing Up"
2015	Finalist Invertebrates "Wings of summer"
2015	Finalist Plants "Meadow Canvas"
2017	Finalist Birds "Realm of the Condor"

Asferico International Photography Contest

2015	Highlight Birds "Middle spotted woodpecker"
2015	Highlight Other Animals "Canopy Spider"
2015	Category Winner Plants & Fungi "Herb Paris"
2015	Highlight Composition & Forms "Spawning cords and tedpoles"

Other awards

2020	Awardee of the prize for arts and culture of the Enno and Christa Springmann-Foundation

 

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