I'm Faruk Ateş, I am a creative design & web development consultant living in San Francisco. I write and speak about making great websites and other things I consider important.
I'm passionate about my photography, but consider it mostly a way to document the world around me. I do rather enjoy doing portrait shots, and am available for photo shoots of any kind.
I shoot with a Nikon D300 and:
• 50mm 1.4/D
• 85mm 1.8/D
• 18-200mm 3.5–5.6
• Speedlight SB-600
A note about my friends & contacts:
I use Flickr's distinction between "friends" and "contacts" as follows: Friends are people I've met, Contacts is everyone else. There are a few exceptions, where I'll list people as friend without having met them yet — in such cases I generally chat with those people very regularly.
If you're in my Contacts selection but we have met before, I probably just forgot to "upgrade" our relationship status after meeting you. Let me know and I'll correct it.
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Contacts (661)
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MorganRoderick
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J Keith Zudell
J. Keith Zudell
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texburgher
Geoff Barnes
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C.M.Zhang
Cate M Zhang
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haxored
Matt Pennig
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delgrosso
Tony Delgrosso
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sween
Jason Sweeney
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sista_flapjack
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Jason Permenter
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vmarinelli
Victoria Marinelli
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Groups (50)
- Level & Tap 1003 photos, 139 members
- Nikon D300 Users 298611 photos, 12523 members
- Nikon D300 HDR 11195 photos, 1254 members
- Nikon D200/D300 Users 209146 photos, 10319 members
- Inauguration Day 2009: Where Were We? 6 photos, 14 members
- Best Shoot 6272 photos, 405 members
- Flickr One [the #1 once a week posting group on Flickr] 1464 photos, 241 members
- Mostly Lisa Photo Competition Group 842 photos, 335 members
- Apple Photographers 435 photos, 60 members
- An Event Apart San Francisco 2008 476 photos, 63 members
- GroupAholics Annonomus!!! 3478 photos, 356 members
- Desktop Porn 75 photos, 62 members
- Apple SLR Day 281 photos, 6 members
- SXSW Interactive 2008 3547 photos, 170 members
- Design Faces 833 photos, 200 members
- Cute Fight! 27 photos, 15 members
- Toys in peril 813 photos, 95 members
- This Is Broken 859 photos, 725 members
- iPhone views 23 photos, 44 members
- The Heather Gold Show 82 photos, 55 members
- Professional Creatives At Home 512 photos, 74 members
- Apple TShirts 64 photos, 80 members
- Flickr Number Meme 2 photos, 4 members
- Babes around the world 8955 photos, 1577 members
- Random Thoughts 189 photos, 137 members
- i love your portrait! 10977 photos, 1176 members
- {Pets named after Famous People or Characters} 1228 photos, 320 members
- Pawstitude 543 photos, 81 members
- Inspiring workplaces 335 photos, 570 members
- CITRIT,Best of yours! / Invited shots only/comment 2 / 283325 photos, 30887 members
- SimpleFools 35 photos, 42 members
- Best of Animal Planet 543 photos, 337 members
- My Fruit Shirt Sees the World 25 photos, 32 members
- Garden Landscape Design 1199 photos, 326 members
- !Flickr Chain Gang 3588 photos, 556 members
- geekslove* 100 photos, 43 members
- SXSWi 2007 2855 photos, 137 members
- RELACIONES / read the rules, please!!! 2369 photos, 1151 members
- Soho Food 399 photos, 66 members
- LEGO sets 1261 photos, 188 members
- Fl♥ckr Hearts- post 1- GiVe 5 HeArTs--Sweeper Running 466349 photos, 27663 members
- Apple 35669 photos, 8187 members
- Impressed by your Beauty! {Invite Only} - MOSAIC GAME 220885 photos, 34359 members
- Pinocchio 495 photos, 195 members
- Golden Photographer (Invite Only Images and +10Faves) 30655 photos, 6474 members
- Favorites: 125 507 photos, 603 members
- Favorites: 100 2364 photos, 1750 members
- Favorites: 90 606 photos, 969 members
- An Awesome Shot! Invited Photos ONLY!! 369938 photos, 49570 members
- Super Shots - Only Invited Photos - Vote Now 240095 photos, 39719 members
Testimonials (8)
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Kyle of Alberta says:
"Faruk's blog has been a great source of inspiration and knowledge to design my own blog (still in the works). Long live Faruk!"
12th February, 2007
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.smaran says:
"Faruk is not only a talented writer, but a born photographer as well. I used to be an active member of Newsvine.com and a lot of people I met on that site have become good friends. I'd like to think Faruk is one of them. Keep impressing the web (2.0). Cheers."
19th October, 2006
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Rob Mientjes says:
"Faruk is like the older brother I never had, and is the reason I believe in brotherly love. I also happen to like his photos."
12th September, 2006
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Ms. Jen says:
"Faruk is more fun than a barrel of small, furry orange monkeys. Always witty, entertaining and mischievious... ;o)"
1st September, 2006
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Sushi & Robots says:
"Faruk is crazy. And that's why he's awesome. :P"
29th August, 2006
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Richest Man in Babylon says:
"Faruk... the Newsvine legend. The fellow Mac geek. Faruk... the articulate. The photographer."
28th June, 2006
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Zach Inglis says:
"Faruk rocks!"
4th March, 2006
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Sassygeek says:
"Kurafire is a great friend and photographer. He's smart and stubborn and goofy. He's forgotten more about web design than most people know, too!"
1st January, 2006
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