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Left-handed, dyslexic, science-geek. Obsessive and professional fact-checker.
Maths grad - then Computer Scientist, then Monetary Economist.
Retired, just as soon as the euro notes and coins were in circulation across Europe; having spent 10 years working toward that event. Working on anything afterwards would have been an utter and total anti-climax, so I packed it in.
"Consultant to International and Central Banks" is how I used to title myself - fairly accurately.
Lived lots of places, at home anywhere (except maybe Sweden).
An old mate of mine, a very senior Ethiopian lawyer once told me he had finally visited one place on earth worse than Ethiopia - it being North Korea - but no other Ethiopian could believe that there could be anywhere worse than Ethiopia.
Neither he nor they had visited Sweden.
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Be aware: This is a god-free zone.
I block everyone who uses comments on my photostream to pimp their own photographs.
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- BBC Winterwatch 35,088 photos, 2,634 members
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- Global Photojournalism; Politics, News, Protest, and Culture 131,614 photos, 9,763 members
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- British Aphids 513 photos, 60 members
- NATURE'S BEST 666,754 photos, 19,394 members
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- Desire Paths 501 photos, 406 members
- Bee and Wasp Mimicry 1,358 photos, 201 members
- Summer~of~Love 51 photos, 11 members
- London and UK riots 2,137 photos, 313 members
- UK Hoppers (of the homopteran sort) 8,117 photos, 141 members
- Cerambycidae - Longhorn Beetles 1,879 photos, 200 members
- Butterfly Conservation 4,915 photos, 319 members
- Natural PATTERNS, Shapes, and Textures (moderated) 22,188 photos, 3,128 members
- Patterns in nature 6,408 photos, 488 members
- Woodpeckers 5,821 photos, 892 members
- Insect activity (Invite only) 311 photos, 115 members
- 'Butterflies and Moths of Britain' -Time to Vote! 8,597 photos, 616 members
- Wisley 1,254 photos, 190 members
- ►Jumping Spider 5,592 photos, 829 members
- Bugging ;-) 2,073 photos, 53 members
- Favorites: 100 3,131 photos, 2,140 members
- Guardian Green shoots 8,730 photos, 1,059 members
- NATURE Pure and Beautiful 32,980 photos, 2,525 members
- Neuropterans 447 photos, 53 members
- SPIDERS 40,020 photos, 7,632 members
- Bird Tables/feeders -The life and times Of! 85 photos, 8 members
- WEST COAST CUMBRIA PHOTOGRAPHY 5,040 photos, 152 members
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- WOOF YOU/AWARD Group - You must award 3 or more 34,045 photos, 1,204 members
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Testimonials (1)
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Judith*Green says:
"I expect most people feel like this: there are one or two of your contacts whose photos you specially look forward to, or whose photostream you home in on if you only have limited time. Ray is like that for me.
His photos have all kinds of qualities: respect and affection for, and knowledge of, his subjects, often humour too; the technical expertise to make his photos always of the highest quality; and best of all, for me, they're just such a joy to look at - wonderful colours, beautiful focus, light and viewpoint, cropped just right and not too close It's as if he planted his garden and the pig field to become the ideal background for his little creatures.
Keep them coming, Ray, they give such pleasure"5th September, 2009
- Name:
- Ray
- Joined:
- February 2005
- Currently:
- Rotherham/Sheffield border , S. Yorks, UK
- I am:
- Other and Open