Hi, and welcome to my Internet home. My name is Rico Bergholdt Hansen - I'm Danish and live in the City of Odense, Denmark, where I was born October 20th, 1972.
As you might have guessed from this blog. I'm very interested in photography, videography and things like music, travelling, history, culture, geography, high-tech and design.
I have a 'Bachelor of Arts' (BA) degree in English & German Business Language and finished one year of a (two year) master's degree in Multimedia design, production & technology.
I work for a very dynamic and expanding company called Mikrofyn who produce "laser levelling and alignment equipment for the construction and agricultural industries". At the moment, I spend most of my time on IT related tasks.
The [ PIXEL VIKING ] blog used to be a photoblog only made with Pixelpost software. It was online from July 2006 and until January 2009. It made it into the 'Hall of Fame' at Photoblogs.org (March 10th 2007) and was nominated for 'Best European Photoblog' in 2006 by Photoblogawards.com.
However, I wanted to incorporate video as well, since I'm now also trying out the art of videography :)
I also wanted the blog to hold simple text blogging and came accross the wonderful world of Squarespace.com that enabled me to do all this without any hardcore knowledge of website coding. Squarespace.com is where you want to be, if you want a pro looking website but have no/little knowledge of website coding.
The first camera I ever owned was a Canon EOS 1000F that I got in order to document the year I spent in the USA as an Au Pair back in 1994.
The camera was stolen just before I left the USA and I didn't get a new one until early 2006, when I discovered photoblogs and wanted to try out photography again. I purchased a Canon EOS 30D that I still use for photography.
In late 2007, I discovered Vimeo.com and was instantly hooked on videography as well. In February 2008, I purchased a Canon HG10 video camcorder and started posting videos on Vimeo. I've later added a 35mm adapter from Letus35.com (the Letus35 Mini). As of January 2010, the Letus has been sold to make room for a new love - the Sony PMW-EX1R.
There's much more about the gear I use on the LINKS page.