I am Jany Claeskens, born February 14, 1960 in Hasselt, Belgium. Since the age of 13 I am interested in rock music in widest sense of that word. Through Elvis, Mud, Sweet, Slade, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin… I got stuck on Heavy Metal in the eighties by the ‘New Wave of British Heavy Metal’, however without losing hold of the progressive genre. The better new wave efforts of the nineties and the logical evolution towards coldwave led to Sisters Of Mercy and they represent the base of my contemporary interest: doom and goth metal. Furthermore my heart beats a little faster when a beautiful lady moves gracefully before my camera, now you know how to categorize me…

Thanks to Internet and all its possibilities I got the chance to introduce my passion to a broader audience. After compiling a Pop Rock Quiz for five years it was time for a larger initiative. Prog-Nose was founded in 2001, but in order to broaden our horizon and remain true to our general idea ‘the genre is not that important, as long as the music is good’, the need to found Metal-Nose in 2004 was obvious. Together these websites are good for more than 2000 visitors a day.

Through all these years however, I had one hobby that excites me more than all the others and that is photography. Because of the coming of digital photo cameras it was possible to focus on the art of taking pictures. The combination of these two passions, rock music and photography, brought me to this website: www.jany.nl Just like with listening to every new album - I am still looking for the ultimate album - I try to make the ultimate photo when taking pictures… all these attempts for this one photo can be found right here…

Jany on zondag 09 september 2007 - 13:00:29 | Comments are turned off for this item