CoasterMadMatt's photostream  

Introductions
Why, hello there and welcome to my Flickr page.

I'm a 24 year old, who has interest in photography currently living in Chasetown, Staffordshire where I have been all my life, in recent years you may have heard of it, as we are the smallest town and most recent football team to get into the FA Cup on numerous occasions since 2005. It is also only a 15 min walk away from where the Staffordshire Hoard was found back in 2009.

If you are interested the name comes from sixth form, after one of my many trips to Drayton Manor near Tamworth, one of my friends said, "You really are roller coaster mad, aren't you Matt?" I altered it a bit and got CoasterMadMatt which is my username on everything that I use.






My 3DS Friend Code is 1633-4166-9572 and if you see CoasterMat on Mario Kart 7 or the suchlike, then that's me

Hobbies and Interests
As you by now have probably gathered Theme Parks and the such like and the above counter is how many coasters I've been on. At the moment I've only been to the UK and Europe but one day I hope to go to the United States, but at the moment, my top 5 coasters are:

Nemesis at Alton Towers

Expedition Ge Force at Holiday Park Megafobia at Oakwood Tonnerre De Zeus at Parc Asterix The Ultimate at Lightwater Valley

You may have noticed (before the big coaster section) that I have an Xbox as I also love Video Games, I'm not a huge fan of FPS and games like Grand Theft Auto but Platformers, RPGs, Puzzlers, Simulation and just some generic fun games (yes I am a huge Nintendo fan). Feel free to add me on my Xbox (although I don't play online much on that) and I also have a Wii and a 3DS, if you'd like to know my friend codes just leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. My favourite games have got to be Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Super Mario Series, Legend of Zelda Series, Rock Band 2 & D/Generation.

Other activities I like doing are, going for walks, caves & mines, myths & legends and watching films (my DVD and Blu-Ray collection has to be seen to be believed!!)

Flickr
Initially I joined Flickr back in October 2007, but it was not until early 2009 when I started to get back into stills photography and this was being updated more frequently and then in 2010 was the start of the frequent updates averaging out at least once every weekend. As such I had my:

100,000 view in February 2011
200,000 view in September 2011
300,000 view on 31st January 2012

Based on Flickr, these are a selection of my most interesting pictures

Usage
You are more than welcome to use one of my photos for your website, all I ask is that you link to my collection page and let me know, as it's always nice to be asked :-)

You may have seen my photos on:

Liverbird Calendars: Birmingham 2012 Calendar
Cityseekr: Ripley's in Copenhagen
Memories of Thorpe Park - You can find my photos on the Model World & Thorpe Belle
Schmap Guides - You can find my photos under Liverpool and Sheffield
Go Flamingo Forum
Alton Towers Guide - My photos are on the Night Photography page
Glassalen, City Seeker Page - My photo is one of the ones on show of the Glass House at Tivoli
Glassalen, Event Seeker - My photo is one of the ones on show of the Glass House at Tivoli
TowersTimes - My photos are on the Feb Half Term, Nemesis Sub-Terra construction and closed season 2011/2012 pages
Theme Park Tourist: Top 10 UK Theme Parks An article (based primarily on attendance) of the UKs best Theme Parks. My photos can be seen by Drayton Manor and Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Good Times (A Canadian Magazine for the aimed over 50s)

Misc
For more my nosyness rather than anything, I've put this flag counter on and as of 3rd April 2011, these are the people who have viewed my profile



Anyways, keep snapping!

Matt