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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 (90)
Contacts (132)
Groups (50)
- Ultimate Ice 860 photos, 35 members
- Cats and Computers 869 photos, 279 members
- Una vita da gatti! A cat's life! [CONCORSO 2010] 5,586 photos, 796 members
- BOURGOGNE - CÔTE D'OR 4,435 photos, 226 members
- Gay [LGBT] Pride 2011 5,807 photos, 322 members
- Gay-Pride Paris 5,089 photos, 266 members
- Insectes et Arachnides de l'Est Français 3,119 photos, 93 members
- Insects Macro World - Feel free to join us! 41,700 photos, 4,353 members
- ALL ABOUT INSECTS & SPIDERS (Only CLOSE, CLEAR, DETAILED) 80,825 photos, 6,471 members
- Beekeeping Apis cerana 0 photos, 3 members
- Wisteria 722 photos, 227 members
- natural abstractions 11,792 photos, 758 members
- textures and patterns 60,309 photos, 3,791 members
- SAND CREATIONS ✲ Admin moderated ✲ P1- Cmt 2 1,503 photos, 166 members
- Our lovely cats 244 photos, 40 members
- Cats world, Le monde des chats 35,443 photos, 2,478 members
- Cat Behavior 23,270 photos, 2,510 members
- Cat in Pose - Gatto in Posa =''..''= 37,868 photos, 4,327 members
- RELÓGIO + HORLOGE + CLOCK + RELOJ + OROLOGIO 2,966 photos, 733 members
- Unusual Paris (Read the rules !!!) 6,836 photos, 843 members
- Paris 254,147 photos, 27,332 members
- Segovia 6,918 photos, 662 members
- Toledo, España 9,045 photos, 706 members
- Insect Porn 6,251 photos, 2,132 members
- Damselflies from around the world 5,922 photos, 421 members
- Damselflies 5,491 photos, 574 members
- BBC Bee Part Of It! 3,226 photos, 578 members
- Wonders of Winter 11,641 photos, 1,275 members
- 1-2-3 Nature 194,445 photos, 9,468 members
- Rainbow Warriors 9,228 photos, 4,877 members
- Abstract Reality 77,274 photos, 4,249 members
- Chickens ROCK!! 12,164 photos, 1,572 members
- Snow - The Main Subject 115,039 photos, 27,274 members
- traditional Male Hat (Europe) 2,178 photos, 226 members
- Hats off to Hats! 23,832 photos, 3,583 members
- Cordoba 3,133 photos, 278 members
- Sevilla 28,794 photos, 2,374 members
- Grafitti & Street Art 175,707 photos, 5,681 members
- Deer 31,769 photos, 5,044 members
- Oiseaux & nids - birds & nests - Aves & nidos - Uccelli & nidi 1,766 photos, 136 members
- The New Accidentally Erotic 388 photos, 133 members
- FOR THE LOVE OF HORSES... 65,265 photos, 15,691 members
- Horse faces 4,941 photos, 649 members
- Land Rover Series One 1,009 photos, 124 members
- Graves, Tombs And Cemeteries 211,516 photos, 30,133 members
- Grave stones and Grave yards 31,542 photos, 1,358 members
- PLANET EARTH BUTTERFLIES, BEES , BUGS, AND INSECTS 23,017 photos, 1,887 members
- Nothing but the bees 3,194 photos, 844 members
- Ethology 498 photos, 44 members
- Birds Photos 878,903 photos, 40,872 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