ABOUT ME

My name is Mikhail Lavrenov and my internet nickname MikLav is just a short form of it.

I am a part time freelance photographer located in Leuven, Belgium. While my main focus is stock photography, I produce fine art pictures, and I am doing assigments too. I don't have a strong specialisation in one narrow area. People photography (in studio and outdoors), landscape and nature, industrial are my most common subjects.

The town where I live (Leuven) is a nice old Belgian university town in about 20 km east of Brussels.

This site is my photography portfolio and a personal web design project.

I've been involved with photography since my childhood i.e. over 20 years. Starting with a rangefinder and then a mechanical SLR camera; then automatic SLR and finally moved to a digital SLR. Photography used to be my hobby for a long time and turned to a part-time job a few years ago.

I have participated in several photography contests and won the 1st prize a few times. Some of my work was exhibited with photography club exhibitions.

While this site is my showcase, and therefore is relatevily static you can read my regularly updated blog about photography and life in Belgium.

Are you interested about making money from your own photographs? Read How to sell your pictures online - my article about selling stock photos.

Do you want to buy my photographs? No problem - you can buy fine art prints or electronic version of stock photos:

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