{"id":43,"date":"2020-12-15T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2021-01-18T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T20:22:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3b453b75\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<div class=\"tabs-container\"><div class=\"tabs-nav\"><ul><li><a href=\"#about\" class=\"active\">about<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#whats-happening-now\">what's happening now<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#highlights-from-the-past\">highlights from the past<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tabs-content\"><\/p>\n<p><section id=\"about\" class=\"tab active\">\n\t\t<br \/>I\u2019m a nature photographer and a certified guide focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/gonorth.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photography tours<\/a>. Not really professions if you ask me, but that\u2019s what brings food on the table at the moment. I live with my wife and our son in the city of T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219, right in the middle of Transylvania. I like mountains, forests and distant views. I occasionally write. I try to live a simple life, eat healthy and exercise. I believe in protecting nature by living more sustainably, like eating less meat, and getting involved by using photography as a way to inform. Being informed goes a long way towards being more empathetic and caring.<\/p>\n<p>My photography is often more interpretative than illustrative.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC04857.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-742\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC04857-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"profile\" width=\"417\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC04857-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC04857-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC04857.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<\/section><\/p>\n<p><section id=\"whats-happening-now\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t<br \/>I just released my first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/gonorth.ro\/shop\/nord-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NORD<\/a> &#8211; a collection of images made in the 10 years of travels to the north of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve always liked challenges that put me in a tight spot, I&#8217;m currently training to run the longest and highest mountain range in Romania, F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219, in under 24 hours. It has a length of 84 km with an altitude gain of around 6000 m. I&#8217;ve tried once and failed.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to work on my long-term project, Terra Silva.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<\/section><\/p>\n<p><section id=\"highlights-from-the-past\" class=\"tab\">\n\t\t<br \/>I spent six weeks pedaling with Aura through Iceland in 2014. Since we didn&#8217;t kill each other in the process, we decided to get married after that. We called it Project PI.<\/p>\n<p>I won some contests. Though I don&#8217;t see any clear relation between the idea of a contest and photography, it allowed me to get some objective evaluation of my work and meet some great people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gdtfoto.de\/seiten\/gdt-european-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-results-2019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 GDT Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a> &#8211; winner Plants &amp; Fungi<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lnx.asferico.com\/concorso\/en\/2018-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 Asferico Nature Photography Competition<\/a> &#8211; highly commended Landscape<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/wpy\/gallery\/2017-tapestry-of-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 NHM Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a> &#8211; winner Plants &amp; Fungi<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/photocompetition.milvus.ro\/gallery\/2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 Milvus Nature Photography Contest<\/a> &#8211; grand prize<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gdtfoto.de\/seiten\/gdt-european-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-results-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a> &#8211; highly commended Plants &amp; Fungi<\/p>\n<p>More so, after getting the accolades above, I got invited to speak at some of the biggest nature photography festivals in Europe &#8211; Cinclus Fest (Portugal), GDT International Nature Photography Festival (Germany) and NaturArt Festival (Hungary). So yes, entering contests can prove beneficial on many more levels than just feeding your ego.<br \/>\n\t<\/section><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.6.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About | Dorin Bofan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/about\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About | Dorin Bofan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/about\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dorin Bofan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-18T20:22:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC04857-300x200.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dev.dorinbofan.com\/\",\"name\":\"Dorin Bofan\",\"description\":\"Nature photographer and guide. 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