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.
Photos of kurafire (50)
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Contacts (660)
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J Keith Zudell
J. Keith Zudell
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_srslainey
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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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maja%h
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Jessie Char
Jessie Char
Groups (50)
- Level & Tap 920 photos, 136 members
- Nikon D300 Users 293524 photos, 12378 members
- Nikon D300 HDR 10920 photos, 1233 members
- Nikon D200/D300 Users 207282 photos, 10286 members
- Inauguration Day 2009: Where Were We? 6 photos, 14 members
- Best Shoot 6208 photos, 403 members
- Flickr One [the #1 once a week posting group on Flickr] 1405 photos, 242 members
- Mostly Lisa Photo Competition Group 832 photos, 338 members
- Apple Photographers 431 photos, 59 members
- An Event Apart San Francisco 2008 476 photos, 64 members
- GroupAholics Annonomus!!! 3475 photos, 360 members
- Desktop Porn 75 photos, 60 members
- Apple SLR Day 281 photos, 6 members
- SXSW Interactive 2008 3547 photos, 170 members
- Design Faces 817 photos, 199 members
- Cute Fight! 27 photos, 15 members
- Toys in peril 806 photos, 95 members
- This Is Broken 843 photos, 720 members
- iPhone views 23 photos, 44 members
- The Heather Gold Show 82 photos, 55 members
- Professional Creatives At Home 512 photos, 75 members
- Apple TShirts 64 photos, 82 members
- Flickr Number Meme 2 photos, 4 members
- Babes around the world 8735 photos, 1584 members
- Random Thoughts 187 photos, 137 members
- i love your portrait! 10791 photos, 1172 members
- {Pets named after Famous People or Characters} 1224 photos, 322 members
- Pawstitude 534 photos, 81 members
- Inspiring workplaces 326 photos, 566 members
- CITRIT,Best of yours! / Invited shots only/comment 2 / 280919 photos, 30810 members
- SimpleFools 35 photos, 42 members
- Best of Animal Planet 552 photos, 338 members
- My Fruit Shirt Sees the World 25 photos, 32 members
- Garden Landscape Design 1169 photos, 326 members
- !Flickr Chain Gang 3618 photos, 556 members
- geekslove* 100 photos, 43 members
- SXSWi 2007 2855 photos, 137 members
- RELACIONES / read the rules, please!!! 2360 photos, 1153 members
- Soho Food 403 photos, 67 members
- LEGO sets 1270 photos, 186 members
- Fl♥ckr Hearts- post 1- GiVe 5 HeArTs--Sweeper Running 458953 photos, 27420 members
- Apple 35300 photos, 8120 members
- Impressed by your Beauty! {Invite Only} - PHOTO CONTEST OPEN 220418 photos, 34371 members
- Pinocchio 466 photos, 192 members
- Golden Photographer (Invite Only Images and +10Faves) 30790 photos, 6490 members
- Favorites: 125 510 photos, 602 members
- Favorites: 100 2355 photos, 1736 members
- Favorites: 90 607 photos, 966 members
- An Awesome Shot! Invited Photos ONLY!! 367692 photos, 49398 members
- Super Shots - Only Invited Photos - Vote Now 238760 photos, 39642 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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