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Max xx's photostream
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Please, PLEASE respect my Creative Commons 2.0 licence - using my photos for financial gain is theft and I've recently had a lot of trouble. Many of my photos are also digitally watermarked.
My "interesting" photos ;-)
Max xx's flickr score: 2835
Retired Sheffield University academic, behavioural ecologist and neuroscientist. Worked on electric fish for 20 years, rats and humans for 15 years. Still working part-time on Parkinson's Disease at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. Here is our current study on Parkinsonian gait.
Amateur beekeeper and metal sculptor.
Dedicated Human Rights watcher - particularly worried about the lack of small arms control and the horrendous effects of their availability in human rights abuses around the world. Webmaster (Webmestre) for the Burgundy sector of the French Section of Amnesty International (In French obviously)
Retired from academe to South Burgundy in 2001 for a calmer, if more anarchic, life. Not uninfluenced by better climate and challenge of house restoration - food and vineyards also played a tiny role ;-)
Burgundy's tourist delights are legend. Drop in and buy some honey (all profits to Amnesty International) on your way to our neighbour - the 16th century Château de Sully - look out for this sign. Here's a map and there's much more info on www.mieldesully.fr
My favourite photographer quotation (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
My favourite Nature quotation (from Antoni Gaudi, 1904) ...
« The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature ; all other books are taken from it, and in them there are the mistakes and interpretations of men »
« Le grand livre, toujours ouvert et qu’il faut s’efforcer de lire, est celui de la Nature ; les autres livres en proviennent et contiennent les erreurs et interprétations des hommes »
This is what I'm listening to ...
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Sign by Danasoft - For Backgrounds and Layouts
Max xx's favorite photos from other Flickr members (89)
Contacts (132)
Groups (50)
- Cats and Computers 874 photos, 278 members
- Una vita da gatti! A cat's life! [CONCORSO 2010] 5,710 photos, 792 members
- BOURGOGNE - CÔTE D'OR 3,954 photos, 211 members
- Gay [LGBT] Pride 2011 5,863 photos, 317 members
- Gay-Pride Paris 5,220 photos, 261 members
- Insectes et Arachnides de l'Est Français 3,024 photos, 94 members
- Insects Macro World - Feel free to join us! 38,556 photos, 4,318 members
- ALL ABOUT INSECTS & SPIDERS (Only CLOSE, CLEAR, DETAILED) 76,194 photos, 6,313 members
- Beekeeping Apis cerana 0 photos, 3 members
- Wisteria 702 photos, 217 members
- natural abstractions 11,401 photos, 755 members
- textures and patterns 58,626 photos, 3,789 members
- SAND CREATIONS ✲ Admin moderated ✲ P1- Cmt 2 1,438 photos, 153 members
- Our lovely cats 218 photos, 36 members
- Cats world, Le monde des chats 33,974 photos, 2,430 members
- Cat Behavior 22,281 photos, 2,483 members
- Cat in Pose - Gatto in Posa =''..''= 35,651 photos, 4,126 members
- RELÓGIO + HORLOGE + CLOCK + RELOJ + OROLOGIO 2,771 photos, 729 members
- Unusual Paris (Read the rules !!!) 6,766 photos, 826 members
- Paris 244,565 photos, 26,636 members
- Segovia 6,703 photos, 638 members
- Toledo, España 8,669 photos, 671 members
- Insect Porn 6,071 photos, 2,113 members
- Damselflies from around the world 5,283 photos, 398 members
- Damselflies 5,195 photos, 566 members
- BBC Bee Part Of It! 2,882 photos, 559 members
- Wonders of Winter 9,307 photos, 1,018 members
- 1-2-3 Nature 190,387 photos, 9,391 members
- Rainbow Warriors 9,164 photos, 4,890 members
- Abstract Reality 73,678 photos, 4,144 members
- Chickens ROCK!! 11,538 photos, 1,410 members
- Snow - The Main Subject 111,199 photos, 26,672 members
- traditional Male Hat (Europe) 2,137 photos, 224 members
- Hats off to Hats! 22,975 photos, 3,554 members
- Cordoba 2,613 photos, 245 members
- Sevilla 27,043 photos, 2,270 members
- Grafitti & Street Art 157,310 photos, 5,408 members
- Deer 30,629 photos, 4,840 members
- Oiseaux & nids - birds & nests - Aves & nidos - Uccelli & nidi 1,707 photos, 135 members
- The New Accidentally Erotic 390 photos, 135 members
- FOR THE LOVE OF HORSES... 63,325 photos, 15,372 members
- Horse faces 4,873 photos, 627 members
- Land Rover Series One 941 photos, 118 members
- Graves, Tombs And Cemeteries 203,565 photos, 29,724 members
- Grave stones and Grave yards 29,603 photos, 1,326 members
- PLANET EARTH BUTTERFLIES, BEES , BUGS, AND INSECTS 20,886 photos, 1,824 members
- Nothing but the bees 3,061 photos, 830 members
- Ethology 440 photos, 38 members
- Birds Photos 780,979 photos, 37,365 members
- City Farms 374 photos, 52 members
Testimonials (2)
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dogfaceboy says:
"Max xx is my favorite photographer in all of flickr land. But I'm looking at more than his photography because all you do informs your art.
Max is a beekeeper, a metal sculptor, and a neuroscientist. He has a terrific sense of humor. And you get the feeling, looking at his photographs—which, not incidentally, are as fine as anything ever seen in Natty Geo—that he's the kind of person you'd like to spend some hours with talking politics and drinking wine (with the significant others in tow, of course!).
Max is obviously fond of the macro, but it's not his only trick. Perhaps the greatest benefit of his photography is not the picture itself as much as it is the explanation. I am learning more about insects and birds and honey and France and veggies than I've ever learned before.
Thank you, Max, for sharing.
(I do think he should change his moniker to Max XXX, as many of his shots are rather, well, risqué.)
doggy"31st July, 2005
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pikkus says:
"I love this man's photo!
Love for Nature's so evident I can't help staring at those pics in awe...
Thank you for sharing your art!
And CC license is a BIG plus!"13th April, 2005
- Name:
- Max Westby
- Joined:
- January 2005
- Currently:
- Sully, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France
- I am:
- Male and Taken
- Website:
- Miel de Sully