Tom Smit studied Technical Chemistry, but that's all he has done with this knowledge. At the moment he is working as Technical Support Specialist/Legacy Hardware Specialist at ICT company in the Netherlands. At the age of 10 Tom started photographing. And as time permits him he continued photographing more or less during the time.
Nature was and is still an important part of his photographing (Tom Smit - Natuur Fotografie), but during the last 15 years he expanded his knowledge and portfolio to other kinds of photography, such as wedding photography, sports, and also food photography.
He also started and completed the Applied University of Photography in 2018 and may call himself official a photographer.
Together with photographer Mirella de Jong he is the co-owner of a company called IMMIX Photography. They made company photography for different kind of companies in the Netherlands. The photograph their production processes or their personal for a uniform look on their websites.
Togther with Fishtail Trekking , Ruud van der Bliek en Bouke Lolkema, he organized photo traveling to other countries like Italy, Herzegovina and South Africa under the name BluenotePhoto.
Since January 2021 these travels are sold to another traveling party and Tom stayed there as a traveling guide for a year.
In 2022 Tom became a workshop teacher at Digidiaal, teaching Nature- and Macro photography. This lasted a year.
At the moment Tom makes his own workshops and teaches people how to use their equipment right to make beautiful pictures themselves. This will mainly take place at his favorite photoshop Cameraland by FotoVillage in Losser (in the east-side of the Netherlands).
He als giving lectures throughout the country and Tom also had several expositions in most parts of his country.