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I'm not active at the moment due to family affairs.

Signed up with Flickr in January 2006.
My camera is a Canon Ixus 50 (PowerShot SD400),
as of lately also Canon Powershot SX 200 is (with which I'm not yet familiar at all).

See all my pictures on one page (why not):
www.flickrleech.net/user/soozika

I sort of rediscovered photography about two years ago (i.e. 2004) and although I put a certain degree of ambition into it, I pursue this activity more or less haphazardly and out of sheer pleasure. At the moment, anyway :)

"Since you asked:"
I use a 35W halogen (= tungsten filament) desk lamp with a flexible stem. For post-processing I usually tweak brightness and/or gamma and get rid of unwanted bits with the brush or clone function of ACDSee. I find PS too daunting at the moment. Since I (finally) migrated to Linux/Ubuntu, GIMP is now on the agenda.

If you are interested in using my pictures, please contact me. Thank you. :o)

The camera inevitably lies, so choosing the kind of lie you want to tell is actually the creative act of photography.
- Brian Eno

Ernest Hemingway: "Good pictures, what camera do you use?"
Irving Penn: "What typewriter do you use?"'

"Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don’t try to be outstanding; don’t try to be a success; don’t try to do pictures for others to look at -- just please yourself."
- Ralph Steiner

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
– Ansel Adams

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
– Diane Arbus

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
– Allan Douglass Coleman

Reality or existence is a multidimensional and interwoven system of varying spectra of emotions and vibrations - and man's five senses are attuned to only very small bands of these spectra.

Gott ist nicht tot. Er lebt, es geht ihm gut und mittlerweile arbeitet er an einem weniger ehrgeizigen Projekt.

In Wirklichkeit ist die Realität ganz anders.

Ein Kluger bemerkt alles. Ein Dummer macht über alles eine Bemerkung.
- Heinrich Heine

"We are all born originals, so why is it that so many die copies?"
- Edward Young
(courtesy of www.flickr.com/photos/cheguevara2001/)

I put in big red Russia merely by accident - it was merely one stopover in Moscow in 1982 at -30 °C ... and I also set foot on Greenland only because of an emergency landing in 1976 ...but I'm too lazy to do it all over again and change it now.

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sonofsteppe Csaba Molnár
Ronán Ronán Conroy
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Testimonials (5)

Auntie P says:

"I can't stop faving Soozika's work! It has a dreamlike quality and her use of light is second to none. She gives her subjects a pedestal from which to display their form, elegance and beauty. So many times I have been mesmerised by her images."

17th December, 2006
PhotoGraham says:

"soozika makes beautiful, artful creations with light using the humblest objects. She reveals the inner beauty of a pear by striping it bare, standing it on a cold slate and shining hot lamps on it (and singing to it, that's where the magic is). She has dodged the footsteps of giants to capture a perfect fleeting shadow and can stack anything at least 10 stories high. Most of all she has a wondeful way of looking at the world and seeing detail, form, colour and humor that others might miss (or tread on!), and showing it to us in her fantastic images. Thank you soozika!"

3rd August, 2006
thiooof says:

"What a lucky guy you are ! You are just entering in a wonderful world :
Perfect experiments with software, or simple poetic atmosphere, astonishing plays of shadows or colors... insects, flowers and other common subjects becoming immediatly surprising, incredible and very creative assembles...
The mind of Soozika is very open, always seeking something of different, her glance on the world is sensitive, her reflexion is constructive, creating then very often the surprise.
Soon 1000 photographs! Bon voyage !"

25th July, 2006
Amelia PS says:

"Soozika has a magical way of making "things" come to life.
She meticolously documents things, both living and still life.
I love her quirky compositions, technical expertise, and a soulfulness. I am drwan to her images and they always leave me with something to ponder on.
She is an alchemist of photography!"

22nd July, 2006
newfolkways says:

"Viewing the pictures from soozika is a thrill, with every photo a 'trip' in itself. There is no more creative person posting on Flickr than soozika."

6th June, 2006