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I'm a professional writer and performer, an amateur rock-balancer and hobbyist photographer. I play poker and darts and ride a bike too.

This isn't a very good place to get in touch with me as mail is very rapidly lost...

If you want to get in touch with me about stuff that isn't directly related to flickr or photography then flickr-mail is a really bad way of doing it. I like photography precisely because it's a creative outlet that is unrelated to how I make my living. If you want to know more about what I do for a living, visit my website. You can e-mail me there - I'm far more likely to see it.

Explaining what it is about flickr that I like so much takes up more words than is seemly here... but I did once try to write an article that explained it.

flickr is visual. It is beautiful in and of itself. Adding flashing gifs and group "awards" makes it ugly. It encourages pointless self-promotion and competition. That's ugly too. I don't expect everyone to agree with me. But I delete comments that contain them. I know they mean well. But it makes a clean page look dirty.

I don't comment much. I have little to say. If I like something a lot I favourite it.

I find more things I like - pictures and photographers - by browsing fffflckr.com/ than I do looking at groups etc.I recommend it. It's beautiful. Try it. Log in. Find the photos the people who took your favourites like. It's pretty.

I should eat more soup but then so should you.

Don't drop litter.

Photos of Dave Gorman (42)

Dave Gorman's favorite photos from other Flickr members (1,864)

Contacts (326)

Brenda Anderson Brenda Anderson
Dominic Sayers Dominic Sayers
bindermichi Mirco Wilhelm
laurenlemon Lauren Randolph
notraces bob
lovestruck. Gillie
rekha_is_batman Rekha Garton
emmaspreadbury Emma Spreadbury
Mat Ricardo Mat Ricardo
walnutwax... stuart mitchell
Jamie McKelvie Jamie McKelvie
Willpower Will Sterns

Groups (50 50)

a letter from eine 1,584 photos, 213 members
Follies 1,785 photos, 218 members
Landmark Trust UK 8,470 photos, 383 members
Jellyfish!! 9,832 photos, 3,481 members
We Love Jellies 1,057 photos, 312 members
Kite Surfing 14,856 photos, 2,569 members
Pareidolia 4,555 photos, 822 members
Window Skills 1,395 photos, 99 members
New Photo Page Preview 0 photos, 3,662 members
Flags Of Imaginary Countries 4,822 photos, 268 members
Guardian 'Your Pictures' 2,371 photos, 933 members
Diana Mini 36,733 photos, 3,888 members
Just bicycles (no people) 5,089 photos, 329 members
Photoshop Pictures 580 photos, 40 members
Polaroid Film 14,577 photos, 904 members
abandoned shoes 1,152 photos, 305 members
Ghost Bike 466 photos, 210 members
Columbia Road & Flower Market, London 621 photos, 146 members
Lovely Eyesore 22,494 photos, 6,528 members
London-alt 111,884 photos, 10,006 members
Empty Seats 40,712 photos, 7,649 members
Window seat please 84,254 photos, 13,100 members
Flickr Commons 1,314 photos, 1,576 members
silhouette 237,826 photos, 31,657 members
Save Polaroid - Self Portraits 610 photos, 5,664 members
FlickrCentral 5,173,752 photos, 170,962 members
Flatirons - Wedged Buildings 1,167 photos, 508 members
Windows Without Views 488 photos, 225 members
Instant Film 43,130 photos, 2,283 members
Stepping Out 3,043 photos, 682 members
Hand of God 9 photos, 18 members
planes, trains and automobiles 94,344 photos, 3,848 members
Streetcorner Preachers 310 photos, 117 members
TWOchairs 300 photos, 138 members
The pleasant jolliness of the POLAROID empire 970 photos, 59 members
LP portraits 2,092 photos, 1,012 members
polaroid photograph 55,154 photos, 2,908 members
polaroid love * 64,851 photos, 4,387 members
DoF 652,754 photos, 52,839 members
Things looking like the flickr default icon 343 photos, 130 members
from BELOW - straight up 7,647 photos, 1,516 members
Polaroid Photographers 41,503 photos, 2,040 members
Polaroid Portrait 5,072 photos, 1,182 members
Polaroid 238,696 photos, 20,415 members
Polaroid Spectra 17,819 photos, 2,080 members
Still Open 987 photos, 161 members
Nikon D70/s Users 220,492 photos, 11,481 members
Looks Like A Robot 925 photos, 292 members
Abstract Faces 4,174 photos, 701 members
Negative Space 31,194 photos, 3,570 members

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Testimonials (5)

billbalance - off a bit says:

"Dave Gorman without a doubt is one of the Few that help to Popularized the Art of Balancing Rocks - Stones - Pebbles."

30th August, 2007
shwe says:

"I was cycling around the East End the other day, and was amazed at how much of what I saw had been conditioned by Dave Gorman's photographs and his eye for the vivid and vibrant. A wonderful photographer!"

12th July, 2007
art ascii(paul) says:

"Dave your Chicago night scenes absolutely rock,
your cloud shots are strat·o·spher·ic, your canyon pics grand
and
happily you escaped the Chicago grain tower amish mob.
Stay around,
have fun
and keep snapping.
I know I will.

Good grief - Dave even gets featured in a recent issue of one of the top UK photo mags. Good onya matey.

Ps You were in Chicago and did not visit Flickr's Dr Joanne - shame on you!
There's always next time....I think she has a neighbor - beware neighbor she has a HUGE icicle and you never know what she might do with it....(is that ok?)..."

29th March, 2007
Jeff Clow says:

"Dave is a very talented photographer - and one quick look through his photostream will confirm that fact. His diversity of subjects and his unique style produces images that are visually interesting and always intriguing.

But what you might not know is that this talented man is also a generous member of the Flickr community who takes the time - and makes the effort - to praise other's works here on a regular basis.

Flickr is a better place because Dave is involved here, and I'm proud to call him a friend...."

31st December, 2006
Lú_ says:

"I'm pretty sure I found Dave's pictures from some rocks (I can't even balance *one* rock, myself). Now I wait to see where in the world Dave is now, and to see it through his lens. And I cross my fingers that there will be doorbells there."

20th December, 2006