"Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time." Diane Ackerman

hurleygurley. Get yours at bighugelabs.com/flickr

hurleygurley - View my 'et cet ~ my personal faves' set on Flickriver

Well, after 6 (sheesh) years on flickr I thought and ugrade of my profile was in order.... 8/11

My love of nature initiated my passion to capture so many years ago in a garden I miss terribly. Now, besides finding time and being deliquent here posting and commenting, I am challenged to look much more carefully to find the beauty and document life in a very gritty urban environmen. I have a hope to expose life for the nder under class. Recent years in LA County have forced my lost my innocence (having . I am confronted by the not thriving, blooming among us and have been offered some help figuring out how to do that w/ getting myself killed and offering something different than obvious beauty to my work.

I haven't posted much in the past few years struggling with this issue and lacking time. I do, however still feel like flickr is my virtual home and I am so glad when I see some of my old friends flickr by. I love you all for giving me the gift of new eyes.

And, it's not like there isn't any beauty in these parts...



I am an imperfectionist by nature, which allows me to stumble my way up the learning curve of photography without concern. I am a former therapist and my philosophy as a therapist was to start with my clients where ever they were, rather than impose a theory on the process. I think I do the same with photography. My style and subjects are eclectic. (I'll shoot just about anything!) When I process my images I consider how to bring the essence of image to light. I continue hope that same sense of "soulfulness" awe I began with

However skilled or interesting my photos are or aren't, I absolutely love the process and don't mind knowing that I will be constantly evolving in this venue.I don't have or want fancy equipment and the technicalities are relevant but far from primary concern.


I've started a bunch of groups which I've been lousy at maintaining, they thrive nevertheless:

Abandoned - a huge and stunning collection of places and things abandoned from all over the world.

Fleur Noir - a smaller and gorgeous group of black and white or duotone botanica.

Lynched - In honor of the director's vision of mainstream American culture.

Secret Life of Plants
A Pair or Two - I'm a Gemini, I had to do it!

Please look at my favorites (particularly nice to view with the flickr river tool above and at my set Playing Favorites; which have genre specific mosaics of my favorites with links to each photo. I am stunned by the talent I run across here every time I look.

My photo stream is getting a little hefty and I'm trying to figure a way to organize 2K + photos with some coherency. I haven't gotten it down yet but for now I've got a billion sets in a reasonable number of collections. I don't recommend my explore set since I think at least half of them are really pretty goofy. Check out my personal faves set if you want to get my range.

I'm a group fiend who is very bad at posting my own, but get my thrills checking in on the wild and weird diversity of pools out there (check out the list if you dare. I checked out yours if you're my contact!) .

And then there's the cozy flickr within flickr ~ Catherine Jamieson's brainy idea:



P.S. I use a lot of flickr toys and greasemonkey with flickr scripts. These free tools make traveling around the flickrverse so much smoother. It seems that there aren't enough people who know about them. I am extremely appreciative of all the creativity, time and energy put into these add-ons.

Oh, and if you really want the dirty details:
View my photos at bighugelabs.com


Elisabeth Feldman's Facebook profile

I think I covered it, no? I only write so much because I wish I knew more about so many other people here and hope to be an inspiration to fill their profile space.

For those of you who think I've forgotten you, not at all. I miss you and I know sometime I'll be swinging around here and touching base.

Photos of hurleygurley (5)

  • What are you thinking... Facebook wants to know. by hurleygurley
  • elizabeth-in-the-mist by lawatt
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  • Closing Time by Norby
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hurleygurley's favorite photos from other Flickr members (6,063)

  • Waiting for the wind by Rongzoni
  • Winter patterns by Rongzoni
  • Eucalyptus framing by Rongzoni
  • fleeting... by Rongzoni
  • snake bite by hellishmundane
  • garage by hellishmundane
  • tattoo by hellishmundane
  • setting up by hellishmundane
  • loose parts by hellishmundane
  • chest by hellishmundane
  • comparison pose by hellishmundane
  • unprocessed black material with improvised tool construction 7 by hellishmundane
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    strph says:

    "Elisabeth's photos captivate me, despite the fact that many of her 'subjects' are inanimate... and honestly, I think this is because she shoots these subjects--flowers, trees, clouds, old buildings and sculpture, etc.--with such care and wonder that she actually brings them to life. Her human subjects seem to radiate as well. I am humbled by the beauty that surrounds her, and ever so glad that sometimes I get to view it through her amazing eye."

    18th June, 2008

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    Wyrd says:

    "HG's photographs are among the very best on Flickr - simple, elegant, beautifully composed, and a shimmering meditation on the beauty of the world around us. I love them."

    27th January, 2007

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    klynch says:

    "HG is a great flickr person. I love her pictures of flora and how they become abstract images. If she lived around 1900 Manet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Redon would all have courted her like crazy to be their muse but she would have rightly rejected them all - after asking them to do a little sketch for her as a souvenir - and continued her good work."

    28th September, 2006

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    Kenny and Steve says:

    "As a "newby" to flickr, E's photos were among the first to dazzle and amaze me. As I think I have noted, she and her talented son have helped return (to me) the exictement of photography I had lost some years ago. Turns out it was simply on walkabout. My life & travel photos may be interesting and from time to time I may even be clever but will I ever bring such life to a photo that she does? Look. Think. Look again. Be impressed!"

    9th August, 2006

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    Auntie P says:

    "I am constantly amazed at the photographs in HurleyGurley's photostream. Such richness of textures, creativity of viewpoint and sensitivity to subject. I partiucularly like the way she represents that which is decaying in such a beautiful way. A photostream to make you look, make you think and above all, make you feel."

    4th February, 2006

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    High Fidelity says:

    "HG is a wonderful photographer and (more importantly) a wonderful human being. She was the one who got me hooked on this whole Flickr thing, and I will never forgive her. I find I am spending a bit too much time perusing my contacts pages that I should spend doing... OH NO! Flickr has me so hooked I can't even imagine a world without it!

    Anyhwee... Look at all of her pictures at full size. I know I have."

    28th February, 2005

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    Terri Lynn says:

    "Would you like to see the re-incarnation of Georgia Okeefe? Then come spend time with Elisabeth's photos. Experience the sensitive intimacy she exposes between mankind and his natural world, you'll never look at nature quite the same way again!"

    25th January, 2005

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    lunaryuna AGAINST CENSORSHIP says:

    "Gifted with a sight both visionary and precise, hurleygurley combines extraordinary artistic talent with the enriching layers of a profoundly empathic nature, a vast life experience and deep rooted love for everything that's alife, has textures and colors ;).
    All of her pictures display an exqusisite sense of composition, revealing a most diverse, multilayered, dark and bewitchingly mysterious, appealing reality of her own. She tells a whole intriguing story behind the portrayed object or subject of her shot. Visiting her groups becomes an enchanted journey into the essence of life's beauty and uniqueness."

    17th December, 2004

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    Special says:

    "She has such a wonderful photography style. It just leaves me in awe. Her photos are a joy to behold."

    25th November, 2004

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    Vanita says:

    "An amazing photographer, beloved by the garden. The plants must think of her as one of their own as the flowers don’t seem to mind her showing the world their secrets. In fact, they seem to reveal to her what they will show no other!"

    28th September, 2004

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    tamaki says:

    "The floweres around hurleygurley, are happy.
    Because the flowers has a chance that is taken the photo by hurleygurley.
    I knew many new beauty of flowers from her point of view."

    19th September, 2004

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    quas says:

    "Ms. gurley takes some of the best flower macros in the business. Plus, she's really nice and likes funny-looking insects. That is a very good combination.

    Hooray for hurleygurley! :D"

    8th September, 2004

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