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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 (43)

Dave Gorman's favorite photos from other Flickr members (1,839)

Contacts (323)

rekha_is_batman Rekha Garton
emmaspreadbury Emma Spreadbury
Mat Ricardo Mat Ricardo
walnutwax... stuart mitchell
Jamie McKelvie Jamie McKelvie
Willpower Will Sterns
LionFortyFour Phil Richardson
CatherineOvende... Catherine Ovenden
light_arted Gavin Clarke
miamizeiss Julia Galdo
tom.hoops Tom Hoops
cept_id No real name given

Groups (50 50)

Follies 1,616 photos, 210 members
Landmark Trust UK 8,187 photos, 364 members
Jellyfish!! 9,493 photos, 3,347 members
We Love Jellies 1,002 photos, 297 members
Kite Surfing 14,291 photos, 2,501 members
Pareidolia 4,298 photos, 794 members
Window Skills 1,215 photos, 94 members
New Photo Page Preview 0 photos, 3,725 members
Flags Of Imaginary Countries 4,473 photos, 263 members
Guardian 'Your Pictures' 2,148 photos, 897 members
Diana Mini 34,681 photos, 3,704 members
Just bicycles (no people) 4,611 photos, 309 members
Photoshop Pictures 556 photos, 40 members
Polaroid Film 13,505 photos, 889 members
abandoned shoes 1,085 photos, 297 members
Ghost Bike 442 photos, 205 members
Columbia Road & Flower Market, London 582 photos, 131 members
Lovely Eyesore 22,878 photos, 6,357 members
London-alt 104,792 photos, 9,660 members
Empty Seats 38,882 photos, 7,444 members
Window seat please 81,128 photos, 12,664 members
Flickr Commons 1,127 photos, 1,530 members
silhouette 227,056 photos, 30,899 members
Save Polaroid - Self Portraits 623 photos, 5,696 members
FlickrCentral 4,827,133 photos, 166,464 members
Flatirons - Wedged Buildings 1,120 photos, 504 members
Windows Without Views 495 photos, 217 members
Instant Film 39,894 photos, 2,163 members
Stepping Out 2,964 photos, 652 members
Hand of God 9 photos, 18 members
planes, trains and automobiles 86,676 photos, 3,747 members
Streetcorner Preachers 303 photos, 115 members
TWOchairs 304 photos, 140 members
The pleasant jolliness of the POLAROID empire 975 photos, 60 members
LP portraits 2,053 photos, 1,007 members
polaroid photograph 53,045 photos, 2,868 members
polaroid love * 62,789 photos, 4,334 members
DoF 622,571 photos, 51,582 members
Things looking like the flickr default icon 340 photos, 129 members
from BELOW - straight up 7,543 photos, 1,511 members
Polaroid Photographers 39,197 photos, 1,960 members
Polaroid Portrait 5,189 photos, 1,098 members
Polaroid 227,956 photos, 19,792 members
Polaroid Spectra 17,023 photos, 1,995 members
Still Open 952 photos, 159 members
Nikon D70/s Users 221,387 photos, 11,365 members
Looks Like A Robot 903 photos, 290 members
Abstract Faces 4,081 photos, 694 members
Negative Space 30,244 photos, 3,525 members
Billboard Backgrounds 232 photos, 118 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