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Michael Lusk...'s photostream
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I have been a film person for 40 years and still have bags of Nikon bodies and lenses, a black and white darkroom and now a renewed passion for photography with my new Nikon D80. A lot to learn about the camera but it is a whole lot of fun. I was in middle management, taught high school, did sales and did wedding photography as a sidelight and now I own my own business. I have a wide range of interests...I like classic still lifes, abstracts, romantic lanscapes, close-up and macro, portraits, detail shots with dynamic composition and colors that scream at the viewer. I look at some very mundane scenes and objects but always find some element, however small and obscure that will make a good image. Good images should be stimulating...making you think, wonder, ponder, reminiscence, laugh or cry...Thanks for visiting...
Just completed, a rather narcisstic exercise...
Michael Lusk...'s favorite photos from other Flickr members (8,274)
Contacts (213)
Groups (50)
- A Benign Eye 3,744 photos, 145 members
- pibloship 734 photos, 63 members
- URBANIQUE 652 photos, 48 members
- Artistic Perspectives 12,351 photos, 544 members
- Minimalist Photography 101 641 photos, 80 members
- Strange Meetings/Encuentros Curiosos 2,126 photos, 110 members
- Facades (without perspective: 2D effect) 3,123 photos, 407 members
- Minimalist Matt 5,687 photos, 368 members
- The Democratic Eye 325 photos, 56 members
- -- intangible delicacies -- 21,316 photos, 681 members
- The Spiritual Landscape 224 photos, 69 members
- Flags Of Imaginary Countries 4,473 photos, 263 members
- window covering 1,079 photos, 66 members
- Blandscapes - read the guide - stop posting vacant rubbish 2,367 photos, 130 members
- Pavement Patterns Museum 1,995 photos, 132 members
- festival of brown 3,173 photos, 152 members
- OPTIME MUSEUM 1,212 photos, 89 members
- Hopperscapes : Emptiness Crowded With Solitude 498 photos, 134 members
- The Sorcerers Apprentice -- Animating the Inanimate 4,605 photos, 185 members
- Ministract 35,054 photos, 1,060 members
- altfotonet.org 7,862 photos, 175 members
- blissful nothingness 4,771 photos, 156 members
- Minimal Black&White(NO text) 17,570 photos, 5,473 members
- Asphalt Abrasions 1,959 photos, 186 members
- denoting absence 3,903 photos, 190 members
- all but one 12,601 photos, 1,590 members
- Diablo Magazine in the East Bay 6,710 photos, 341 members
- Hypo-X-Series (Cream of Fugu Book). 290 photos, 87 members
- bitches brew 144,628 photos, 2,748 members
- Quality Abstracts 8,652 photos, 7,054 members
- Esoteric Visual Emporium (EVE) 5,917 photos, 148 members
- At first glance 2,719 photos, 91 members
- Beautiful Metal 8,883 photos, 757 members
- wiggley tin 868 photos, 62 members
- Cream of Fugu. (The Collection). 20,957 photos, 207 members
- True ZEN 2,937 photos, 632 members
- Laptop Peripherals of Fugu Hikikomori. (Invite Only). 7,068 photos, 218 members
- concrete canvas 1,187 photos, 141 members
- Siskind Inspired 1,618 photos, 93 members
- URBAN DISTRACTION / FATAL ABSTRACTION 19,085 photos, 610 members
- looking in looking out : windows 14,727 photos, 1,925 members
- Thing in itself 7,921 photos, 616 members
- the semiotic grid 3,154 photos, 296 members
- Cartel - Doors.. or Walls.. or Windows.. or All 6,902 photos, 391 members
- WALLS Only WALLS ! 30,321 photos, 6,493 members
- OPTIME GALLERY 10,447 photos, 142 members
- True Abstracts (Membership Closed) 7,073 photos, 201 members
- Cartel - Omsel Collection ( Cartel Favs ) 509 photos, 191 members
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Galleries (1)
- Kate Melleresh for haphazart 3 18 photos
Testimonials (6)
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dnurv/f4f (7,463) says:
"mike's stream...where the rubber hits the pavement...happy motoring"
8th October, 2008
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busb - rebuilding PC after someone reinstalled OS says:
"Quite simply - Mike Lusk is the master of texture!"
17th June, 2008
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Olga Gerrard says:
"Finsmal’s stream offers us a gallery wherein we can lose ourselves – gazing into myriad images, be they abstractions or representational. I have found at times I have spent nearly an hour looking through works and yet not even left a comment – the art speaks over the FLICKR obligation to fave and comment. There is SO much inspirational work here, and I shan’t keep you from venturing forth by continuing to wax rhapsodic. This is a true and pure artist, and I am honored to see and be seen by him."
21st April, 2008
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linkwize says:
"Even to upload the sheer number of images that Mike has takes some kind of super-dedication in itself!
And so many are highly selective visions - innovative. Yet the author demonstrates appropriate learned awareness (and is declarative - recognising that there really is nothing totally new under the sun) of his diverse roots in the modern history of the picture.
This is a truly amazing prodigious and prolific talent! Salute!"28th March, 2008
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Sue Salem Photography says:
"Mike was one of my earliest "finds" on flickr, the first photos where I exclaimed "wow!", the first photographer that opened my eyes to my own world a little wider.
Mike truly has an artist's eye and passion, offering us nearly daily gifts of color, texture & composition. Whether his subject is graffiti on a boxcar, an urban street surface, abstracted flower, or a shiny car... he consistenly and thoughtfully stays true to his style and vision, regardless of how many people happen to see a particular shot or how many "awards" have been handed out.
Thanks, Mike for your inspiring work, sense of humor, and prolific stream of artistry!"11th June, 2007
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Titanik says:
"I like your pictures so much. There is so many I like that I could say too many often: beautiful, nice shot, wow! I begin to be speechless (no, no, I'm not bored) about what I see.
So... I prefer to offer you a testimonial to say that I appreciate your work. By the way, sorry for my english. I hope you understood what I meant!"6th March, 2007
- Name:
- Michael Lusk
- Joined:
- January 2007
- Hometown:
- Berkeley, CA
- Currently:
- Antioch, CA
- I am:
- Male and Taken