About aaardvaark / Julian Robinson  

I intend to live forever -- so far, so good!

A long time enthusiast changed to digital when the Nikon FE (what a great camera!) was stolen. Now a Canon owner: 300D > 20D (broke) > 40D for a week then returned > 30D. Lenses include Canon 17-40, 24-105, 400/5.6, 70-300 IS, 100/2.8 macro and Tokina 12-24.

My "most interesting" photos (according to flickr and thanks to siderevs) can be seen here.

Or you can learn a lot about my flickr life from my BigHugeLabs 'DNA'.

I like all kinds of photos, which means I hover between a (no-doubt) fine eclectic taste and thoughtless indiscriminance. Current enthusiasms are for birds, panoramas, birds, landscapes, and birds. I seem to have become addicted to bird photography, which is better than some of the alternatives. I guess.

Special photographic interests apart from the above include a desire to create photos that reflect what the eye sees, better than what comes straight out of the camera. This is technical but reflects the difference in contrast between real life observation and a paper or screen representation, and the difference between effective focal depth seen by eye and what the camera does.

Current photo-objectives include getting back to taking photos of people, and learning more about lighting and the use of flash and strobes.

I love pithy quotes, here's a few more ...

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job

My occupational Hazard is, my occupation's just not around

(From Douglas Adams, Robert Heinlein, don't know, don't know, Douglas Adams, Jimmy Buffett)




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