aaardvaark's photostream  

If you would like to use one of my photos it's easiest to contact me direct at aaaardvark@internode.on.net or via flickr mail. I still have a few photos with Getty but will not be follwing that path in future.

My photos are now 'all rights reserved' since I do sell some to put food on the table. Normally I've no problem with free use of my images as source material for other works, for use on non-profit websites, academic work, homework etc but please ask first.

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


(Stephen Wright)

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Favourite camera ever was the Nikon FE2. Now a Canon owner: 300D > 20D (broke) > 40D for a week then returned > 30D (broke) > 50D (ugh), now a 7D and 1D4. My favourite lenses amongst a worryingly increasing collection are Tokina 12-24 and Canon 24-105, 300f4IS, 500f4.

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 -- 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.

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

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
(Horace Walpole)

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
(Douglas Adams)

Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
(Robert Heinlein)

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
(Robert Heinlein)

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
(Robert Heinlein)

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

My occupational Hazard is, my occupation's just not around
(Jimmy Buffett)

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature.
(Richard Feynman)

Theory 6 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet. When toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. Thus, if buttered toast is strapped to the back of a dropped cat, the two will hover, spinning inches above the ground. With the energy produced by a giant buttered cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York and Chicago.
(Unknown)