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Art is the objectification of feeling.
Herman Melville
My original art background is painting and natural science illustration but it takes me forever to complete a piece in the detail I like.I've taken that training and eye then applied it to photography.
One of the things I love about drawing and photography is that it teaches you to notice things, especially the mundane, and to really look at them from a different perspective. I like to think that expands into how you see life in day to day living.
Photography gives me more instant gratification in my art especially in these digital days. And I now have more direct control over processing than with film where I can't handle the chemicals.
February 2012- Carrying my camera almost every day I have learned so much. Many shots I don't keep or no one ever sees them but me. It's like a digital sketchbook,where I can experiment, train my eye and brain to observe and distill the essence of what I see and communicate that to others in my best work.
I'm really enjoying a wider community for photography than film alone afforded me. Most of the flickr folks I've met that share interests in photography, thrifting,collecting,the absurd have all been great.
Alas, the time has come where like other flickrites, I must say if you favorite my photographs or add me as a contact just to download my work and have nothing to offer for me to view or only stuff I'm not interested in I will block you.
I don't expect you to always agree with my POV or like my work. Constructive critcism is welcome. If you are going to be pissy, indignant or negative I will not respond to and may delete your comments. I'm not interested in debating who's right or better. Each of us has our own delusions we see the world through.Compassion is where we can meet.

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Photos of prima seadiva (11)
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Contacts (114)
Groups (50)
- Lovely Eyesore 22,495 photos, 6,525 members
- The SunBreak: Seattle News & Culture 5,832 photos, 138 members
- Go for a walk! 6,501 photos, 274 members
- Liqueurs and Food 28 photos, 27 members
- Merry Kitschmas 3,956 photos, 468 members
- I Love Seattle 893 photos, 50 members
- Neon Signs 83,084 photos, 7,397 members
- Neon Lights 6,355 photos, 518 members
- HALLOWEEN WORLDWIDE 25,937 photos, 5,356 members
- Pictures in pictures 2,443 photos, 197 members
- The Colors Of Our Life 26,591 photos, 1,034 members
- Asian Lanterns 3,702 photos, 677 members
- Lanterns 4,720 photos, 794 members
- Food Porn Photography 7,889 photos, 187 members
- Insanely Funny Ugly things and stuff 3,979 photos, 325 members
- Thrift Store Faces 51 photos, 7 members
- Gardening in the Northwest 1,126 photos, 60 members
- Auricula Addiction 462 photos, 107 members
- thrift store score! 7,244 photos, 560 members
- Northwest Elements 15,028 photos, 433 members
- Shot With a Canon 859 photos, 38 members
- Urban Still Life 688 photos, 189 members
- thriftstore Hell 2,467 photos, 597 members
- *Foodielicious* 25,565 photos, 805 members
- Sign, sign, everywhere a sign.... 31,822 photos, 2,156 members
- Life of a Kitchen 29,835 photos, 3,357 members
- Skulls 15,482 photos, 3,530 members
- Día de los Muertos 10,143 photos, 1,704 members
- Day of the Dead Around the World 1,448 photos, 257 members
- Creative Tabletop Photography 174,799 photos, 15,372 members
- The Duotone Collective 5,382 photos, 559 members
- LIGHTROOM BLACK AND WHITE 4,459 photos, 323 members
- Apparecchiamo!!! 3,958 photos, 442 members
- All about Trees, Arboriculture, and Tree Care. 12,708 photos, 1,547 members
- Canon Powershot G11 50,941 photos, 2,667 members
- Simply Flowers (NO B&W): Frontpage Contest: DAISIES & DANDELIONS 29,745 photos, 2,328 members
- A rEtRo Kitchenalia spot 9,983 photos, 735 members
- Flower Close-Ups 808,922 photos, 54,483 members
- Priority Mail 2,798 photos, 1,539 members
- Lusty Lady - Seattle, WA 138 photos, 176 members
- Your Love of Nature 46,654 photos, 1,209 members
- `No Rules! 67,989 photos, 919 members
- Seattle Transit Blog Flickr Pool 7,963 photos, 200 members
- RUSTY and CRUSTY 288,450 photos, 26,617 members
- For the Love of Yellow 16,401 photos, 1,944 members
- DOMESTICITY: Artful photos from INSIDE the house. 18,954 photos, 1,660 members
- Tisn't the season for Christmas lights and decorations 71 photos, 15 members
- Helleborus 1,838 photos, 298 members
- Daylight Robbery 3,202 photos, 235 members
- VINTAGE MOTEL SIGNS ONLY! 23,971 photos, 3,716 members
Testimonials (2)
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dr.Ōzda says:
"Of all my friends on Flickr I think you take the most "real" photos. I had to put "real" in quotes, because my own "reality" or what might pass for it on any given day is questionable. Anyway I love the glimpses you provide into the nooks and crevices of your fine city; done with your own very unique and refreshing perspective.
And I'm really looking forward to a day where we can have salad, soup and tea together -- at your table of course :)"19th November, 2010
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Marcin Tustin says:
"Prima Seadiva takes some of the best, most forlorn urban photographs I have seen on flickr. I wish I could match her adventurousness and sense of time and opportunity."
29th September, 2009
- Name:
- Patricia
- Joined:
- February 2008
- Hometown:
- Baltimore then Seattle
- Currently:
- Seattle, USA
- I am:
- Female






















