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A former IBM engineer has given up his job to pursue his ardour for pictures and has Instagram to thank for his new-found success.
After changing into a preferred shutterbug for his putting images on the photo-sharing app, Eelco Roos couldn’t sustain along with his full-time job as an IT specialist at IBM Amsterdam and determined to stop. He had labored there for greater than 10 years.
Now a full-time photographer, Roos’s important supply of revenue is from on-line campaigns with tourism businesses and types together with Samsung and Sony.
Former IBM engineer, Eelco Roos, gave up his job to pursue his ardour for pictures and has Instagram to thank for his new-found success (an image proven above that he shot at Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada)
After changing into a preferred shutterbug on the photo-sharing app, he couldn’t sustain along with his full-time job as an IT specialist at IBM Amsterdam and stop. He had labored there for greater than 10 years (Roos shot an image of his photographer good friend Hiroaki Fukuda towards breath-taking surroundings)
Now a full-time photographer (Roos pictured above), his important supply of revenue is from on-line campaigns with tourism businesses and types together with Samsung and Sony
Roos captures The Darkish Hedges in Northern Eire that he stated is perhaps acknowledged from Recreation of Thrones
‘Working in IT was by no means my dream job. Images has at all times been a giant ardour of mine, a artistic outlet so to talk,’ he instructed Enterprise Insider.
The Instagram star from the Netherlands, with 450,000 followers, started snapping pics and sharing them on the app someday whereas he ready for a prepare.
Quickly after, Roos realized he needed to point out others find out how to take stunning photos utilizing their telephones, and he gained an enormous following with the images he captured and shared throughout his commute.
The Dutch photographer’s variety of followers continued to develop after Instagram took discover of his recognition and positioned him on its Recommend Consumer Record.
Roos, who has labored with Samsung on its NX1 digicam’s marketing campaign and with manufacturers together with Johnnie Walker and Ducati, additionally does workshops and consulting work within the Netherlands.
His work has taken him to nations together with France, Spain, England, Switzerland and Eire.
Roos stated he has but to remorse his resolution to stop his job and commit totally to pictures. He instructed Enterprise Insider his Instagram fame ‘is a dream come true’.
He took this image final yr at Moraine Lake in Canada which is now printed for a collaboration between Artifact Rebellion and Charity: Water
The Instagram star from the Netherlands, with 450,000 followers, started snapping pics and sharing them on the photo-sharing app someday whereas he ready for a prepare (above a photograph he snapped in Montblanc, Tarragona)
Roos took a photograph at Springbrook Nationwide Park whereas he was mountaineering the hinterlands of Gold Coast
His work has taken him to nations together with France, Switzerland and Eire (above he captures a scenic view in Glencoe, a village in Scotland)
Roos shared this picture of avenue within the province of Alicante, Spain on Instagram with the caption: ‘Loving these slender streets in #Altea’
Roos stated he has but to remorse his resolution to stop his job and commit totally to pictures. He instructed Enterprise Insider his Instagram fame ‘is a dream come true’
