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Max xx's photostream
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Please, PLEASE respect my Creative Commons 2.0 licence - using my photos for financial gain is theft and I've recently had a lot of trouble. Many of my photos are also digitally watermarked.
My "interesting" photos ;-)
Max xx's flickr score: 2835
Retired Sheffield University academic, behavioural ecologist and neuroscientist. Worked on electric fish for 20 years, rats and humans for 15 years. Still working part-time on Parkinson's Disease at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. Here is our current study on Parkinsonian gait.
Amateur beekeeper and metal sculptor.
Dedicated Human Rights watcher - particularly worried about the lack of small arms control and the horrendous effects of their availability in human rights abuses around the world. Webmaster (Webmestre) for the Burgundy sector of the French Section of Amnesty International (In French obviously)
Retired from academe to South Burgundy in 2001 for a calmer, if more anarchic, life. Not uninfluenced by better climate and challenge of house restoration - food and vineyards also played a tiny role ;-)
Burgundy's tourist delights are legend. Drop in and buy some honey (all profits to Amnesty International) on your way to our neighbour - the 16th century Château de Sully - look out for this sign. Here's a map and there's much more info on www.mieldesully.fr
My favourite photographer quotation (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
My favourite Nature quotation (from Antoni Gaudi, 1904) ...
« The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature ; all other books are taken from it, and in them there are the mistakes and interpretations of men »
« Le grand livre, toujours ouvert et qu’il faut s’efforcer de lire, est celui de la Nature ; les autres livres en proviennent et contiennent les erreurs et interprétations des hommes »
This is what I'm listening to ...
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Sign by Danasoft - For Backgrounds and Layouts
Max xx's favorite photos from other Flickr members (89)
Contacts (132)
Groups (50)
- Cats and Computers 872 photos, 278 members
- Una vita da gatti! A cat's life! [CONCORSO 2010] 5,707 photos, 792 members
- BOURGOGNE - CÔTE D'OR 3,940 photos, 211 members
- Gay [LGBT] Pride 2011 5,863 photos, 317 members
- Gay-Pride Paris 5,220 photos, 261 members
- Insectes et Arachnides de l'Est Français 3,020 photos, 94 members
- Insects Macro World - Feel free to join us! 38,512 photos, 4,319 members
- ALL ABOUT INSECTS & SPIDERS (Only CLOSE, CLEAR, DETAILED) 76,131 photos, 6,311 members
- Beekeeping Apis cerana 0 photos, 3 members
- Wisteria 701 photos, 217 members
- natural abstractions 11,384 photos, 754 members
- textures and patterns 58,558 photos, 3,788 members
- SAND CREATIONS ✲ Admin moderated ✲ P1- Cmt 2 1,437 photos, 153 members
- Our lovely cats 218 photos, 36 members
- Cats world, Le monde des chats 34,030 photos, 2,429 members
- Cat Behavior 22,264 photos, 2,483 members
- Cat in Pose - Gatto in Posa =''..''= 35,610 photos, 4,121 members
- RELÓGIO + HORLOGE + CLOCK + RELOJ + OROLOGIO 2,761 photos, 727 members
- Unusual Paris (Read the rules !!!) 6,747 photos, 826 members
- Paris 244,364 photos, 26,623 members
- Segovia 6,700 photos, 637 members
- Toledo, España 8,725 photos, 669 members
- Insect Porn 6,068 photos, 2,113 members
- Damselflies from around the world 5,277 photos, 397 members
- Damselflies 5,194 photos, 565 members
- BBC Bee Part Of It! 2,882 photos, 559 members
- Wonders of Winter 9,246 photos, 999 members
- 1-2-3 Nature 190,466 photos, 9,390 members
- Rainbow Warriors 9,173 photos, 4,890 members
- Abstract Reality 73,765 photos, 4,145 members
- Chickens ROCK!! 11,526 photos, 1,407 members
- Snow - The Main Subject 110,940 photos, 26,609 members
- traditional Male Hat (Europe) 2,136 photos, 224 members
- Hats off to Hats! 22,948 photos, 3,554 members
- Cordoba 2,607 photos, 245 members
- Sevilla 27,006 photos, 2,267 members
- Grafitti & Street Art 156,950 photos, 5,403 members
- Deer 30,596 photos, 4,837 members
- Oiseaux & nids - birds & nests - Aves & nidos - Uccelli & nidi 1,705 photos, 135 members
- The New Accidentally Erotic 390 photos, 135 members
- FOR THE LOVE OF HORSES... 63,318 photos, 15,369 members
- Horse faces 4,869 photos, 626 members
- Land Rover Series One 941 photos, 118 members
- Graves, Tombs And Cemeteries 203,386 photos, 29,712 members
- Grave stones and Grave yards 29,561 photos, 1,325 members
- PLANET EARTH BUTTERFLIES, BEES , BUGS, AND INSECTS 20,847 photos, 1,820 members
- Nothing but the bees 3,058 photos, 831 members
- Ethology 438 photos, 38 members
- Birds Photos 779,279 photos, 37,307 members
- City Farms 374 photos, 52 members
Testimonials (2)
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dogfaceboy says:
"Max xx is my favorite photographer in all of flickr land. But I'm looking at more than his photography because all you do informs your art.
Max is a beekeeper, a metal sculptor, and a neuroscientist. He has a terrific sense of humor. And you get the feeling, looking at his photographs—which, not incidentally, are as fine as anything ever seen in Natty Geo—that he's the kind of person you'd like to spend some hours with talking politics and drinking wine (with the significant others in tow, of course!).
Max is obviously fond of the macro, but it's not his only trick. Perhaps the greatest benefit of his photography is not the picture itself as much as it is the explanation. I am learning more about insects and birds and honey and France and veggies than I've ever learned before.
Thank you, Max, for sharing.
(I do think he should change his moniker to Max XXX, as many of his shots are rather, well, risqué.)
doggy"31st July, 2005
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pikkus says:
"I love this man's photo!
Love for Nature's so evident I can't help staring at those pics in awe...
Thank you for sharing your art!
And CC license is a BIG plus!"13th April, 2005
- Name:
- Max Westby
- Joined:
- January 2005
- Currently:
- Sully, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France
- I am:
- Male and Taken
- Website:
- Miel de Sully