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Joie de Vivre's photostream
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Thank you for taking the time to look at my photos.
June 1, 2004 is the day that got me started in digital photography. I had a brand new Canon PowerShot G5, and the company I worked for was moving into a new building in downtown Champaign, Illinois. While waiting for everything to arrive, I wandered around for a couple of hours, taking photos of things I had never considered before: reflections in store windows, broken objects, street stickers. It was exciting and inspirational.
The next two years were fun and experimental times on Flickr. It was easy for a random shot of a wall or air conditioner to make Explore. I was lucky enough to have a few photos go to #1, including the one which has become my most popular. Looking back on many of those photos, I can see how poor they are on a technical level, but I didn't care at the time. Seeing groups form around rust and decay, white plastic chairs, abstract urban scenes...wow, who knew?
Since then, I made the switch to DSLR, but overall I found myself taking fewer photos. In 2011 I got back into daily shooting, mostly because of how fun it is to use the Hipstamatic app for the iPhone. (Here's a mosaic of 192 Hipstamatic shots taken in 2011.)
For my older photos, this set is a good place to start .
Photos of Joie de Vivre (1)
Joie de Vivre's favorite photos from other Flickr members (8,740)
Contacts (449)
Groups (50)
- New Topographers 11,005 photos, 292 members
- Mundane Details 104,881 photos, 5,203 members
- Favorites: 25 7,683 photos, 3,987 members
- FlickrCentral 4,818,717 photos, 166,347 members
- B&W SQUARE GROUP 67,966 photos, 3,189 members
- Give me direction 71 photos, 14 members
- not all there 267 photos, 181 members
- sadbikes 1,215 photos, 393 members
- Hipstamatic Black & White 2,498 photos, 186 members
- *Umbrella* 2,796 photos, 1,241 members
- Empty Planet (Where is Everybody?) 3,703 photos, 468 members
- Chain Link Fences 428 photos, 120 members
- The Coffee Cup 15,653 photos, 5,858 members
- Retro World 22,386 photos, 3,170 members
- Spring and Summer Around the World ❀ 53,664 photos, 5,157 members
- your most BORING shot of the month 248 photos, 93 members
- Air Vent 526 photos, 61 members
- Caution! 291 photos, 100 members
- Doors & Windows Project 123,747 photos, 13,041 members
- Pipe 800 photos, 138 members
- Hipstamatic 204,853 photos, 14,304 members
- > Musée de la Sculpture Trouvée < 9,703 photos, 495 members
- step shadows 303 photos, 110 members
- Impossible flags 4,800 photos, 283 members
- wrapped up and well-covered 2,226 photos, 181 members
- Down Upside 868 photos, 347 members
- Urban Winter Scenes 2,261 photos, 346 members
- Bicycles in the Snow 1,466 photos, 325 members
- Green + Rust 2,742 photos, 424 members
- Dropped Stuff 2,904 photos, 228 members
- pink 'n' green 12,754 photos, 1,555 members
- William Eggleston 37,358 photos, 1,912 members
- NIKON D90 CLUB 560,440 photos, 28,199 members
- Nikon D90 729,513 photos, 32,049 members
- Milk Crates 294 photos, 75 members
- Bike Racks 3,789 photos, 759 members
- Cafes, Coffee Houses, Burger Joints, Food Carts. 36,683 photos, 2,200 members
- CHAINORAMA 938 photos, 248 members
- inanimate life 652 photos, 87 members
- Urban Geometry (comment on 1 *or* fave 2 *or* ask to remove 1) 58,127 photos, 4,725 members
- Best Viewed Large 116,645 photos, 3,781 members
- beater cars 322 photos, 27 members
- Signs, Signs... 84,325 photos, 4,225 members
- stripes ||| group 4,359 photos, 990 members
- Urbanjunglism - Urban jungle minimalism 4,084 photos, 635 members
- Flower Garden 84,913 photos, 3,898 members
- Pavement Patterns Museum 2,003 photos, 132 members
- Bleak 15,189 photos, 917 members
- Arboreal, the Art of Trees (Tree/s must be the focus of the pic) 38,502 photos, 5,588 members
- Billboard 2,799 photos, 384 members
Testimonials (7)
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miss_kcc says:
"it is always a joie to see one of James' photos on my homepage, in my contacts list... I have been following his stream for a long time, he is the master of details, shadows and color... he has always been good, but over the past year or so his photos have systematically amazed me... the iphone has taken his photography to a whole new level..."
21st October, 2011
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O Caritas says:
"James' stream is one of the most consistently clever and enjoyable on all of flickr. Not only does he have one of the keenest eyes for detail, but his compositions are flawless."
11th November, 2009
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_barb_ says:
"James' photos are a neverending source of joy and inspiration for me. I'm forever astonished how he finds hidden marvels, colours and patterns in the most unassuming of places.
To find beauty in the everyday-mundane is a real skill, and not one that many photographers have managed well.
So many of his photos radiate happiness and the fun he has in exploring his surroundings, I never tire of looking at them."28th September, 2005
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Bertdorazio says:
"Great eye for color in the lost and found."
19th July, 2005
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Bobby Alcott says:
"James has a beautiful ability to see what others cannot. In a small town like Champaign, it's easy to focus on the few big things in the few big areas; James looks at what's under the hood. His camera, through his eye, brings the vivid colors, rich textures and trails of real life to all of us. 'Brilliant' is not overstating it."
22nd February, 2005
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Special says:
"James has a wonderful knack for finding beauty in anything. His photos are always amazing and inspire me to try harder."
17th July, 2004
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robholland says:
"A poet of the random, the junky, and the broken."
14th July, 2004
- Name:
- James Hague
- Joined:
- May 2004
- I am:
- Male and Taken