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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)

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Contacts (3,620)

silsoe7 silvina soave
{Shelbi} Lynn A. No real name given
Ben909 No real name given
Brittany Nicol... No real name given
katiaromanova Katia Romanova
wise wolf... No real name given
Anita Dada' Anita Dadà
annapozarycka Ann
Alička No real name given
virgineyes No real name given
p*p Petra
Nicholas... Nicholas Scarpinato

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PLYM Magazine 2012 12,134 photos, 1,954 members
Search The Best (Post INVITED photos Only) New Group 836 photos, 508 members
Little Photo 541 photos, 95 members
Android Photo´s (AP) 18 photos, 48 members
BSP (Best Street Photography) 644 photos, 168 members
~~fence friday~~(the original) 18,971 photos, 3,177 members
Sigma 85mm F/1.4 EX DG HSM 5,996 photos, 1,006 members
SONY ALPHA CLUB 174,400 photos, 3,732 members
The Childhood of the invisible... 874 photos, 190 members
FOR THE LOVE OF HORSES... 63,744 photos, 15,444 members
Alice guarda i gatti - Cat's Lover! 1,353 photos, 190 members
The Isle of Mull 558 photos, 85 members
zorki cameras 9,745 photos, 1,266 members
Pentacon Six 23,009 photos, 1,972 members
melancholy 65,935 photos, 4,210 members
Werra Cameras 982 photos, 209 members
Vignette for Android 23,771 photos, 2,068 members
Your Best Shot 2010 20,203 photos, 24,735 members
myspace* 138 photos, 76 members
Kate Day's Photo Competition 5,186 photos, 977 members
Of Me 181,369 photos, 14,076 members
Image Portrait Gallery !!! - B&W or Color !!! 25,878 photos, 1,011 members
Ingmar Bergman's 63rd Film 8,339 photos, 761 members
Mamiya Love (FILM ONLY) 65,481 photos, 5,084 members
Character Studies 18,520 photos, 753 members
Le Club Noir 1,532 photos, 275 members
Libertango ~ Invitation ONLY 3,532 photos, 370 members
Fictitious Reality 37 th Exhibition- ericguo06 20 photos, 350 members
AllEdges Still Life 69,925 photos, 5,374 members
The Bluebells Photo Group 4,426 photos, 1,022 members
We Chase Light 8,168 photos, 1,133 members
Pure PhotoArt! 2,460 photos, 388 members
Olympus 35 RC 2,305 photos, 240 members
Mamiya TLR 23,744 photos, 1,990 members
Are you dreaming my memory ? 14,601 photos, 387 members
SELF-PORTRAIT 149,309 photos, 13,560 members
Ilovethatphoto.net Photography Magazine 57,541 photos, 2,368 members
Image Gallery / B&W !!! 84,932 photos, 2,592 members
SOS Haiti 1,495 photos, 383 members
Your Best Shot 2009 16,548 photos, 20,189 members
Fictitious Reality-30 Exhibition- gabonezu (back but very s/) 2 photos, 239 members
Nellie Vin Fine Art Magazine 6,036 photos, 340 members
A pets group that is not stupid! 56 photos, 14 members
'Six of the best' 10,646 photos, 215 members
My heart profoundly fluttered, my soul's eye grew clear... 10,531 photos, 560 members
Strobist.com 526,853 photos, 103,963 members
Birds , Birds Birds 600,421 photos, 26,436 members
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Galleries (77)

masks 1 photo
Profiles vol VIII 8 photos
reading vol. iv 6 photos
Windows VII 9 photos
red vol. vii 18 photos

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