Hi, my name is Jan Kohút (Honza). I spent my childhood in a little village called Velká nad Veličkou. After finishing primary school, I went to Uherské Hradiště to study grammar school. It was there where I first started to wonder about music, prose, lyrics, poetry, etc. Well, to put it simply, about art. It was not only about wonder but also about first attempts to create something mine. First tones on the guitar, first lines of poetry, now, for a good reason, forever forgotten. After graduation, I continued to Brno (the second-largest city in the Czech Republic) to study information technology. I began to take photos and be more engaged in poetry. I watched tons of tutorials about photography and editing. For the first time, I didn't consider my singing to be totally out of tune. I read wonderful books about the "rules" of poetry by Mary Oliver and I could not resist the thought of accepting her as my teacher. After I received my master's degree, I was kind of lost. I realized my nihilistic attitude towards life and I knew I had to step further. Towards a belief, an axiom of my own. An endless journey without an end. And so a new era of searching has begun.

First, I "hated" poetry because I couldn’t understand it. But then I realized that you should not even try to understand it. This realization freed me, and I started to enjoy it. I realized that there were people in this world that wrote poetry that I loved. I realized that to found one poem that is perfect for you is often more than to read a whole novel. I can spend hours reading poetry and not find anything I like. Often it just doesn’t speak to me on any level. But I try to overcome it so I could reach the ones I'm going to love. And if I was to find one poem in a hundred that I would love, it would be enough for me. It would worth the fight.

I decided to buy my first camera (Sony a6000) thanks to my friend whos photos inspired me. At first, I was interested in photographing people that I knew and somehow captured the essence of what they were. Then I also started to be interested in landscape photography. But generally, I shoot anything that seems interesting to me. Lately, I'm trying to get better in video. I've shot most of my pictures with Sony APS-C cameras (a6000, a6500) and Sigma lenses (16mm f/1.4, 30mm f/1.4). Recently, I've bought a Sony A7C with Samyang 45mm f/1.8. I use Capture One for editing.

Hmm, singer-songwriting. It would seem like a natural thing for someone writing poetry and playing some instruments. But weirdly, it is not just a combination of these two worlds but something new. Lyrics and poetry are different. Trust me, if you read poetry and lyrics for some time, you will notice quite a difference. Some lyrics may resemble poetry more, some poetry might by more like lyrics, but they are different. You quickly realize this when you just write some peace of poetry and add some chords over it. It does not work.

This website is solely my creation. I'm most indebted to the team of people responsible for Bootstrap. It allows you to create a responsive website without the need to mess around with CSS and Javascript too much. After you click on any picture in my gallery, you find yourself inside blueimp Gallery, which I'm thankful for. I'm using only open-source code, so I'm also making this open-source. You can find the code on GitHub. The idea behind this website is to make an addition of new content as simple as possible. I've achieved this by simple XML files where I can define the content. These XML files are processed by PHP scripts which generate the HTML pages. As these rather simple and fast PHP scripts are running on the server, the client receives the final HTML page and there is almost no need for Javascript.