Helma Spona studied business administration with a focus on business informatics at the University of Duisburg/Essen and has been working as a freelance author for over 15 years, initially mainly in the field of programming languages and databases, and in recent years mainly in the field of images, image processing and photography. She started out photographing with Canon SLRs and now uses a Nikon D300 and Nikon D90, as well as a Lumix FZ50 compact camera.
