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Michael Lusk...'s photostream
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I have been a film person for 40 years and still have bags of Nikon bodies and lenses, a black and white darkroom and now a renewed passion for photography with my new Nikon D80. A lot to learn about the camera but it is a whole lot of fun. I was in middle management, taught high school, did sales and did wedding photography as a sidelight and now I own my own business. I have a wide range of interests...I like classic still lifes, abstracts, romantic lanscapes, close-up and macro, portraits, detail shots with dynamic composition and colors that scream at the viewer. I look at some very mundane scenes and objects but always find some element, however small and obscure that will make a good image. Good images should be stimulating...making you think, wonder, ponder, reminiscence, laugh or cry...Thanks for visiting...
Just completed, a rather narcisstic exercise...
Michael Lusk...'s favorite photos from other Flickr members (8,257)
Contacts (213)
Groups (50)
- L'oeil du photographe - The Photographer's Eye . 587 photos, 185 members
- A Benign Eye 3,669 photos, 145 members
- pibloship 733 photos, 63 members
- URBANIQUE 644 photos, 48 members
- Artistic Perspectives 12,192 photos, 535 members
- Minimalist Photography 101 632 photos, 79 members
- Strange Meetings/Encuentros Curiosos 2,110 photos, 109 members
- Ars Imitari 212 photos, 33 members
- Facades (without perspective: 2D effect) 3,070 photos, 404 members
- Minimalist Matt 5,689 photos, 368 members
- The Democratic Eye 325 photos, 56 members
- -- intangible delicacies -- 21,348 photos, 680 members
- The Spiritual Landscape 222 photos, 69 members
- Painted arrows 644 photos, 172 members
- Flags Of Imaginary Countries 4,463 photos, 263 members
- window covering 1,085 photos, 67 members
- Blandscapes - read the guide - stop posting vacant rubbish 2,367 photos, 130 members
- colourful minimalism 15,214 photos, 804 members
- Pavement Patterns Museum 1,997 photos, 132 members
- festival of brown 3,219 photos, 153 members
- OPTIME MUSEUM 1,273 photos, 89 members
- jot's Café 3,891 photos, 94 members
- Hopperscapes : Emptiness Crowded With Solitude 497 photos, 134 members
- The Sorcerers Apprentice -- Animating the Inanimate 4,626 photos, 186 members
- Shadé (closed) 10,181 photos, 265 members
- Ministract 34,987 photos, 1,061 members
- altfotonet.org 7,828 photos, 176 members
- HAPHAZART! Magazine 2 photos, 25 members
- blissful nothingness 4,802 photos, 158 members
- Minimal Black&White(NO text) 17,510 photos, 5,465 members
- Asphalt Abrasions 1,985 photos, 187 members
- The secret art of Graffiti Removal 3,243 photos, 650 members
- denoting absence 3,922 photos, 191 members
- all but one 12,661 photos, 1,591 members
- Diablo Magazine in the East Bay 6,696 photos, 341 members
- Hypo-X-Series (Cream of Fugu Book). 290 photos, 87 members
- bitches brew 144,123 photos, 2,746 members
- Quality Abstracts 8,664 photos, 7,059 members
- Esoteric Visual Emporium (EVE) 5,953 photos, 149 members
- At first glance 2,715 photos, 92 members
- Beautiful Metal 8,873 photos, 754 members
- wiggley tin 866 photos, 61 members
- Fugu Connection (The Secret Room). 464 photos, 43 members
- Cream of Fugu. (The Collection). 20,935 photos, 208 members
- True ZEN 2,933 photos, 633 members
- Laptop Peripherals of Fugu Hikikomori. (Invite Only). 7,064 photos, 219 members
- concrete canvas 1,195 photos, 142 members
- Siskind Inspired 1,613 photos, 93 members
- URBAN DISTRACTION / FATAL ABSTRACTION 19,065 photos, 612 members
- looking in looking out : windows 14,681 photos, 1,916 members
Galleries (1)
- Kate Melleresh for haphazart 3 18 photos
Testimonials (6)
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dnurv/f4f (7,463) says:
"mike's stream...where the rubber hits the pavement...happy motoring"
8th October, 2008
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busb - rebuilding PC after someone reinstalled OS says:
"Quite simply - Mike Lusk is the master of texture!"
17th June, 2008
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Olga Gerrard says:
"Finsmal’s stream offers us a gallery wherein we can lose ourselves – gazing into myriad images, be they abstractions or representational. I have found at times I have spent nearly an hour looking through works and yet not even left a comment – the art speaks over the FLICKR obligation to fave and comment. There is SO much inspirational work here, and I shan’t keep you from venturing forth by continuing to wax rhapsodic. This is a true and pure artist, and I am honored to see and be seen by him."
21st April, 2008
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linkwize says:
"Even to upload the sheer number of images that Mike has takes some kind of super-dedication in itself!
And so many are highly selective visions - innovative. Yet the author demonstrates appropriate learned awareness (and is declarative - recognising that there really is nothing totally new under the sun) of his diverse roots in the modern history of the picture.
This is a truly amazing prodigious and prolific talent! Salute!"28th March, 2008
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Sue Salem Photography says:
"Mike was one of my earliest "finds" on flickr, the first photos where I exclaimed "wow!", the first photographer that opened my eyes to my own world a little wider.
Mike truly has an artist's eye and passion, offering us nearly daily gifts of color, texture & composition. Whether his subject is graffiti on a boxcar, an urban street surface, abstracted flower, or a shiny car... he consistenly and thoughtfully stays true to his style and vision, regardless of how many people happen to see a particular shot or how many "awards" have been handed out.
Thanks, Mike for your inspiring work, sense of humor, and prolific stream of artistry!"11th June, 2007
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Titanik says:
"I like your pictures so much. There is so many I like that I could say too many often: beautiful, nice shot, wow! I begin to be speechless (no, no, I'm not bored) about what I see.
So... I prefer to offer you a testimonial to say that I appreciate your work. By the way, sorry for my english. I hope you understood what I meant!"6th March, 2007
- Name:
- Michael Lusk
- Joined:
- January 2007
- Hometown:
- Berkeley, CA
- Currently:
- Antioch, CA
- I am:
- Male and Taken