Flickr holds a rather special place in my life, as it is how I met and married my husband. As far as I know, we were the first couple in the Flickr community to meet and marry because of this website, and it has continued to be an inspiring, creative and important part of both of our lives since that first click that brought us together in 2005.
You can read about it >here if you'd like a bit more information on us.
About me:
well read, addicted to caffiene, nicotine, and music. I was raised by a roaming, rabid pack of artists and musicians and this explains a lot about me. What else would you like to know? I hate writing this kind of stuff, it's like filling out a work application.
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This is important:
Due to a recent (ahem) *rash* of what appear to be pervy people wanting to be my "friend," I feel I should make the following notice available:
I WILL NOT HESITATE TO BLOCK YOU:
-->If you are a little grey boxface with no pictures posted and all of your contacts are girls with their tits out.
-->I will block you if you are a person who has actually mastered the art of pressing the shutter release on your digital camera well enough to take cheeky pictures of your naughty bits, and posted an obligatory photo or two.
Who opened the porn doors on flickr all of the sudden?
Take my name off that list, please.
Princess Valium's flickr score: 4078
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Princess Valium's favorite photos from other Flickr members (1,717)
Contacts (265)
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Lunar Simian
No real name given
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MOOHQ
No real name given
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LSE Library
No real name given
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Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright
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L'hurluber.lu
Thomas Krauss
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Quadrille Books
Quadrille Books
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QypeUK
Qype UK
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E Smith
Elliot Smith
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Hi, I'm G
galen smith
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mccannta
Thomas McCann
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Kagyu Samye Dzong
Kagyu Samye Dzong...
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lomokev
kevin meredith
Groups (50)
- Pioneer Woman Photography Assignments 10906 photos, 4930 members
- Effra FC 1366 photos, 73 members
- Qype UK 396 photos, 19 members
- Cinespia - Hollywood Forever Cemetery 65 photos, 23 members
- Universal Studios Hollywood 2524 photos, 197 members
- Lonely Planet: Photo Challenges - "Chairs" 55014 photos, 6703 members
- Strobist.com 283757 photos, 64109 members
- Official This American Life 153 photos, 219 members
- Lambeth 3112 photos, 270 members
- Lonely Planet Publications: Photobook 63755 photos, 4797 members
- Tuttle Club (Social Media Café) 349 photos, 93 members
- Herne Hill & Dulwich 625 photos, 73 members
- South London 8311 photos, 421 members
- South London Photographers 2699 photos, 155 members
- Garden wildlife 2009 441 photos, 86 members
- Blaze 09 173 photos, 23 members
- British Wild Flowers 11442 photos, 1142 members
- Medicinal, Aromatic and Wild (or rare) Edible Plants 12737 photos, 1321 members
- Economic Botany 873 photos, 70 members
- Thirtysomething Women 10386 photos, 509 members
- Gothic Soul 17325 photos, 2379 members
- Love One Another - Celebrating diversity in love 416 photos, 269 members
- A message for Obama 996 photos, 1600 members
- Love Is Love : Lesbian and Gay Weddings 827 photos, 349 members
- California elections 270 photos, 51 members
- Billy Bragg 466 photos, 62 members
- M.A.C. 4050 photos, 1726 members
- River Thames 11989 photos, 1001 members
- Guardian 'Your Pictures' (née 'In Pictures') 830 photos, 459 members
- Guardianista 1829 photos, 158 members
- Extreme Bokeh 67620 photos, 7552 members
- The Copy Desk 138 photos, 48 members
- Flickr 888 5513 photos, 11582 members
- Pictish Stones 247 photos, 71 members
- cloveorange 88 photos, 47 members
- BIKER LIFE ~ done by bikers for bikers ~ 39314 photos, 3569 members
- Ketzel Levine's Talking Plants: An NPR Flickr Group 3521 photos, 486 members
- Street-Art 5676 photos, 438 members
- Goddess 2815 photos, 530 members
- Paris 128803 photos, 16107 members
- Photography School Asia & Photo-Club 3106 photos, 1124 members
- ~~beloved shoes~~ 3441 photos, 1223 members
- NewWest.Net -- Voice of the Rocky Mountains 19238 photos, 744 members
- Dark Hair Pale Skin 1471 photos, 383 members
- My Moleskine 22632 photos, 3024 members
- Avant-Garden 14003 photos, 1960 members
- Nokia Nseries-support 3272 photos, 1490 members
- Maman 1267 photos, 591 members
- Shoes Perspective 1414 photos, 595 members
- Still Open 576 photos, 136 members
Testimonials (7)
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Jane Hoskyn says:
"Valerie is one of the nicest, most genuine people on Flickr. She's all about exploring life's little truths through her images, and her photostream, will make you smile and think. And smile some more."
6th August, 2009
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mogwi says:
"She was one of the first people to befriend me on Flickr. Her work is beautiful and inspiring. :)"
15th September, 2008
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gregor_y says:
"I better hurry up and drive up the canyon to meet Valerie face-to-face before she ships off to the UK and I miss that chance. She's one of my favorite people on Flickr, ever since not long after I joined, she urged me to post in some group or other cuz "all the cool kids are doing it!" I don't know that I ever became one of the cool kids, but it was sure a nice welcome. And I keep coming back to this cool kid's photostream to see her latest creative and beautiful and usually poetic photos."
4th April, 2007
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vivastereouk says:
"although we have never met(hopefully one day we will) she has been invaluable to me personally as an online friend. In the fucked up world of myspace, she has been a guiding light. An i salute her and wish her all the happiness in the world with her new husband to be.
s x"15th September, 2006
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Happy Dave says:
"I'd been on Flickr a week when Valerie wrote me the nicest email, thereby deepening my burgeoning addiction in one fell swoop. Her shots are moody, blurry, colourful and beautiful, sometimes all at once. After six months of chatting, on the phone and online, I had to go see her, so I flew 5,000 miles for a bliss-full weekend. She's my mountain angel and I love her like trees love sunlight."
14th September, 2005
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collette's lettuce says:
"Shes really nice and she says nice things to me even though i am often mean and say weird/bad things to her/everybody else."
20th July, 2005
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incidental music says:
"Valerie is a creative dynamo – writer, artist, photographer, prolific lover of music and words and altogether probably the coolest person in Colorado. Something of an inspiration in fact. May she live in eternal English springtime."
26th April, 2005
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