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Flickr has been like a second university in later life to me - no exaggeration. And more and more I have come to appreciate that this online life, albeit so virtual and in many senses unreal, is actually not so dissimilar from real life as we often imagine.
I've been here for six years now. Just about oldskool, though not as oldskool as some.
And things are not so very different from that first university experience so long ago. Plenty people around at the same time I started have since dropped out, as happened then.
People that seemed good to be around have proved less so over time, as happened then. Interesting souls you hardly noticed in the beginning suddenly grab your attention.
There are complaints about the dean and administrators. Some people transfer to a smaller, ostensibly more liberal college. But most of us remain. Enrol semester by semester, learning from one another, dropping by one another's campus rooms, leaving notes, sometimes engaging in conversations or banter, making one or two friends for life.

Amongst other things I'm the founder/editor of the children's books website ACHUKA
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Before doing that I had time to write, and have written books about Melville & Hawthorne (a historical novel), Tennyson (a full-length biography) and William Cowper (a short guide to his poetry).

Since going digital, I've always used Sony
S70 (deceased)
W1 (deceased)
H1
@100
@580

I frequently run a slideshow of my Favorites or look back through my Achukapicks set, for inspiration.

Spend far too much time here, but it's a great place to be.

I'm admin for the One To One pool, a group for photos of places that are suited to conversations between two people, whether intimate or friendly, passionate or philosophical, everyday-chit-chatty or tensely dramatic... It's an open group, with no obligations or icons attached.

I tried (but failed) to keep the number of my Contacts at or just below the 2000 mark.

Prints of some of my photos can be obtained via my portfolio:
photo.achuka.co.uk.

www.twitter.com/achuka

Photos of achuka (14)

achuka's favorite photos from other Flickr members (4,177)

Contacts (3,666)

Nathália G.... No real name given
~ Paloma ~ No real name given
faviformed simmons
Cristina Marrodán Cristina Marrodán
Jacqueline Foss Jacqueline Foss
Rosemarie. Rosemarie Buenrostro
catklein cat klein
Sator Arepo Rafa Elias
Adolfo Rozenfeld Adolfo Rozenfeld
lebedeff Anatoly Lebedeff
Evgeniy Korchak Evgeniy Korchak
Rina Rij Rina Sapojnikova

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***F l o r*** / Admin Invite 6,652 photos, 307 members
Né Ultra 9,082 photos, 1,739 members
PLYM Magazine 2012 23,682 photos, 2,418 members
Search The Best (Post INVITED photos Only) New Group 1,062 photos, 554 members
Little Photo 606 photos, 99 members
Android Photo´s (AP) 18 photos, 50 members
BSP (Best Street Photography) 1,131 photos, 181 members
~~fence friday~~(the original) 20,139 photos, 3,265 members
Sigma 85mm F/1.4 EX DG HSM 6,983 photos, 1,111 members
SONY ALPHA CLUB 186,420 photos, 3,840 members
The Childhood of the invisible... 1,030 photos, 188 members
FOR THE LOVE OF HORSES... 65,293 photos, 15,695 members
Alice guarda i gatti - Cat's Lover! 1,581 photos, 201 members
The Isle of Mull 578 photos, 88 members
zorki cameras 10,300 photos, 1,330 members
Pentacon Six 24,153 photos, 2,072 members
melancholy 68,051 photos, 4,305 members
Werra Cameras 1,056 photos, 227 members
Vignette for Android 25,073 photos, 2,147 members
Your Best Shot 2010 19,998 photos, 24,443 members
myspace* 146 photos, 76 members
Kate Day's Photo Competition 5,032 photos, 970 members
Of Me 183,553 photos, 14,139 members
Image Portrait Gallery !!! - B&W or Color !!! 28,436 photos, 1,071 members
Ingmar Bergman's 63rd Film 9,274 photos, 796 members
Mamiya Love (FILM ONLY) 69,590 photos, 5,235 members
Character Studies 19,277 photos, 766 members
Le Club Noir 1,645 photos, 267 members
Libertango ~ Invitation ONLY 3,060 photos, 363 members
Fictitious Reality 37 th Exhibition- ericguo06 20 photos, 349 members
AllEdges Still Life 73,400 photos, 5,503 members
The Bluebells Photo Group 5,339 photos, 1,177 members
We Chase Light 7,888 photos, 1,140 members
Pure PhotoArt! 2,479 photos, 382 members
Olympus 35 RC 2,411 photos, 243 members
Mamiya TLR 24,637 photos, 2,038 members
Are you dreaming my memory ? 15,909 photos, 413 members
SELF-PORTRAIT 156,269 photos, 14,044 members
Ilovethatphoto.net Photography Magazine 62,187 photos, 2,472 members
Image Gallery / B&W !!! 94,172 photos, 2,778 members
SOS Haiti 1,535 photos, 379 members
Your Best Shot 2009 16,389 photos, 20,019 members
Fictitious Reality-30 Exhibition- gabonezu (back but very s/) 2 photos, 239 members
Nellie Vin Fine Art Magazine 6,221 photos, 347 members
A pets group that is not stupid! 59 photos, 14 members
'Six of the best' 10,834 photos, 214 members
My heart profoundly fluttered, my soul's eye grew clear... 10,710 photos, 557 members
Strobist.com 539,854 photos, 106,100 members
Birds , Birds Birds 635,218 photos, 27,017 members
Birds in Flight! 93,538 photos, 6,397 members

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Galleries (82)

red vol. viii 3 photos
sea & shoreline 1 photo
silhouette vol. iii 3 photos
animals 1 photo
masks 1 photo

Testimonials (9)

f o x e says:

"One of the most friendly people on flickr :) He can make you smile with his photographs and with his great always bright comments! Thank You!"

28th January, 2011
clive_reedman says:

"I passed achuka on Brighton Pier this afternoon. He was pointing his camera at Seagulls which made me stop and give him a Moo card. I thought nothing of it as I do it often. But then he wrote to me through Flickr and I have spent three hours traversing and enjoying his work. I will go to bed tonight with some of his images in my mind and that is te greatest compliment I can pay him. I will come back again and again and learn and be inspired."

29th March, 2009
dora sans raison says:

"he will "sway" you.. I cannot imagine flickr without him.."

27th July, 2008
emre_u ( Away ) says:

"Michael is very talented, I like the way he sees, frames, shoots. I adore his work. You should have a look at his stream, you'll learn many things."

6th January, 2008
vivavia says:

"beautiful work. surprising character.
the best balance yet"

10th November, 2007
shokographic says:

"thanks for some lovely comments which is always so just lovely and makes me smile ;D
you've got tons of amazing images... I admire you!"

23rd October, 2007
Paulin'a says:

"Achuka is a very good photographer with mass of idea. I really like his creative work."

21st October, 2007
dora. says:

"Michael is endowed with a good taste and sensitivity. He's got an eye for things of a beauty. I'm happy to have met him on flickr, I would be happy to meet him in real life. Thank you Michael :-)"

25th December, 2006
puja says:

"Achuka's images are simple, yet beautiful."

26th July, 2005