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Sheila Steele's photostream |
I was having an identity crisis so I took my old profile down.
I prefer to mediate the world through a camera or written words than to deal with it directly.
I do not like the way the world is and I do not think it is part of any grand design. To the degree humans have shaped it, I sometimes marvel but mostly weep. How can we invent such marvellous things and then tell the huge majority they cannot have them? I have my nose pressed against the glass wanting what I have been taught to want. But if everyone else can't have it, I don't want it.
I treasure my education, my computer and the cameras I am privileged to use.
From each according to his ability to each according to his need, said Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto. I find that a worthy credo and try to follow it while still holding to the kindness in my human nature.
I try to see dyslexia as a gift and hope I don't harm myself or others by getting some stupid little thing backwards.
My daddy always told me "You will come to grief, little girl" and generally he has been right on the money.
Sheila Steele's favorite photos from other Flickr members (1,554)
Contacts (179)
Groups (50)
- TEAMWORKS 63 photos, 44 members
- The Beauty of Sloughs 1,081 photos, 117 members
- Take my Picture! 1,196 photos, 336 members
- Photographic Evidence That Stephen Harper Eats Babies. 181 photos, 25 members
- Canadian Politics 2,349 photos, 149 members
- AntiWar: Pictures that Protest the Madness. 12,804 photos, 1,293 members
- GUSTO: Aging with Power, Wisdom, & Irreverence NEW RULES 3,051 photos, 521 members
- Black and white Cri 422 photos, 88 members
- Verde e Amarelo - Green and Yellow - Vert et Jaune 13,169 photos, 1,604 members
- Graphic comments 732 photos, 308 members
- Shooting Through Sunglasses 1,000 photos, 481 members
- 100 views + 10 favourites (unlimited) 49,087 photos, 5,983 members
- Animal Addiction! *Post one, Comment one plse* 113,739 photos, 8,041 members
- PHOTO / LYRICS 2,291 photos, 365 members
- Ernesto 924 photos, 607 members
- POSTER DESIGN 38,377 photos, 8,581 members
- Dumpr: MUSEUMR FRAMED PICS ONLY! 1,361 photos, 614 members
- Why doesn't anybody notice me? / Perchè nessuno mi caga? 15,704 photos, 1,366 members
- White Cats 11,766 photos, 1,166 members
- Beauty Parlors Everywhere 945 photos, 478 members
- AardCard Postcard Project 115 photos, 116 members
- *Cat Century* - 100 Views+ ONLY - please add the Tag "CC100" 25,311 photos, 1,447 members
- Patricks (or Patricias too) 468 photos, 34 members
- **A Big Fave (Invite Only)-Post 1/Fave or Comment 2 503,143 photos, 63,342 members
- Mundo Uno - One World, One Future, for the Children 23,052 photos, 5,209 members
- Christianity Unleashed 3,803 photos, 526 members
- Paris of the Prairies 2,372 photos, 158 members
- Ladies with Lawnmowers! 16 photos, 16 members
- Antony & The Johnsons 178 photos, 89 members
- *Connect* 7,492 photos, 417 members
- Photos of people taking photos 7,614 photos, 1,057 members
- Amazonia Now 1,155 photos, 137 members
- Photo Kranti - Click For A Cause 1,349 photos, 250 members
- LOVE & PEACE > READ THE RULES OR... 7,188 photos, 2,003 members
- Painted Trains 51,473 photos, 2,009 members
- Chucky P! 154 photos, 94 members
- Cats Sniffing Flowers - P1/A2 6,374 photos, 1,743 members
- IRONICALS 1,596 photos, 156 members
- The Blink of an Eye 2,085 photos, 3,084 members
- Modern ICONOGRAPHY 16,550 photos, 1,605 members
- onthewalls 197 photos, 50 members
- 10-25 favorites [No nudes / erotic] 28,984 photos, 4,615 members
- damage 10,099 photos, 1,218 members
- canadian architecture 4,668 photos, 210 members
- wordiness 1,047 photos, 121 members
- Obligatory Purple Objects 2,115 photos, 551 members
- Hockneyized 381 photos, 148 members
- ALL THINGS ROUND 3,922 photos, 441 members
- Oh Baby, Baby Blue! 4,381 photos, 637 members
- Daisy Chain................... 2,899 photos, 750 members
Testimonials (3)
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PhylG says:
"I have been very proud to know Sheila through Flickr, and am even prouder of the work she has done in her life. I loved when she would suddenly pop up to comment about one of my cats, or other photos, and I was always keenly interested in her own photos, on everything from cats to protests. It has been a great privilege to have had even my brief contact with someone I consider to be one of the greatest Canadians."
23rd November, 2006
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nuanc says:
"To say that Sheila takes pictures of her world is a vast understatement. The Samuel Pepys of flickr, she will turn her lens to anything and everything and, in doing so, chronicles not only what wants to be seen but also what needs to be seen. Not always (though often) pretty or pleasant, Sheila's unflinching image-diary of the early 21st century is detailed and intriguing and often, just plain fun."
15th July, 2006
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leeontheroad says:
"Sheila is an artist of the everyday, an everyman and -woman's photojournalist. In recording the world about her, she has a keen eye for the ironic and the poignant, the beauty in apparent ugliness and the rampant ugliness in what passes for beauty. She knows the world has gone mad, but hers is a genial presence, flecked with a wicked sense of humor that is a rare joy."
3rd May, 2006
- Name:
- Sheila Steele
- Joined:
- September 2004
- Currently:
- Saskatoon, Canada
- I am:
- Female and Open
- Occupation:
- writer, webmaster, injusticebuster
- Website:
- injusticebusters