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It’s not every day that a contributor reaches 1 billion views. If we’re totally honest, it wasn’t a milestone we ever even fathomed when Unsplash first started. But here we are! And not one but 25 contributors have shattered our expectations in a massive way.

In the first part of our  “Behind 1 Billion” mini series, we spoke to contributor Eberhard Grossgasteiger. He’s recently reached 2 billion views (!), so we caught up with himabout how it feels to have reached this mind-blowing milestone, and looked back at his journey on Unsplash.

Photos by Eberhard Grossgasteiger

Tell us a little about why and how you started submitting to Unsplash?

It’s a strange story in a way. I took extensive analogue photographs about 30 years ago for a stretch. I had taught myself everything auto-didactically and was truly obsessed with photography. Then I had a professional change and I found no more time to occupy myself with photography as I imagined it. I stopped abruptly, in fact, but still I bought an expensive LEICA compact camera for fast and good photos, just in case. The cam rested untouched in our salon for more than 20 years, until October 2016, when I read an announcement in the newspaper that someone was looking for my old LEICA compact camera in exchange it for his new DSLR Canon EOS 70D. So, I thought, of course, and we made the deal! The new camera stirred my ambition to do more digital photography, as well as awakened my basic past knowledge of photography.

That October, I went hunting with my camera for the first time. My wife, Rita, and I drove to Lake Antholz at the month’s end armed with my Canon EOS 70D with a 50mm Canon 1.8. I foraged around for the perfect shot, but I only did end up taking two photos!

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