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.
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Groups (50)
- TEAMWORKS 65 photos, 48 members
- The Beauty of Sloughs 981 photos, 112 members
- Take my Picture! 1163 photos, 326 members
- Photographic Evidence That Stephen Harper Eats Babies. 82 photos, 27 members
- Canadian Politics 1479 photos, 103 members
- AntiWar: Pictures that Protest the Madness. 11016 photos, 1210 members
- GUSTO: Aging with Power, Wisdom, & Irreverence NEW RULES 2730 photos, 525 members
- Black and white Cri 421 photos, 88 members
- Verde e Amarelo - Green and Yellow - Vert et Jaune 11277 photos, 1515 members
- Graphic comments 821 photos, 333 members
- Shooting Through Sunglasses 845 photos, 383 members
- 100 views + 10 favourites (unlimited) 39058 photos, 5139 members
- Animal Addiction! *Post one, Comment one plse* 88584 photos, 6205 members
- PHOTO / LYRICS 1771 photos, 306 members
- Ernesto 694 photos, 537 members
- POSTER DESIGN 16389 photos, 4960 members
- Dumpr: MUSEUMR FRAMED PICS ONLY! 1369 photos, 632 members
- Why doesn't anybody notice me? / Perchè nessuno mi caga? 14596 photos, 1372 members
- White Cats 8593 photos, 843 members
- Beauty Parlors Everywhere 794 photos, 436 members
- AardCard Postcard Project 111 photos, 123 members
- *Cat Century* - 100 Views+ ONLY - please add the Tag "CC100" 19385 photos, 1358 members
- Patricks (or Patricias too) 536 photos, 37 members
- **A Big Fave (Invite Only)-Post 1/Fave or Comment 2 500696 photos, 61710 members
- Mundo Uno - One World, One Future, for the Children 21237 photos, 5315 members
- Christianity Unleashed 2726 photos, 460 members
- Paris of the Prairies 1635 photos, 131 members
- Ladies with Lawnmowers! 16 photos, 15 members
- Antony & The Johnsons 202 photos, 90 members
- One Banana Skin 118 photos, 75 members
- *Connect* 6848 photos, 427 members
- Photos of people taking photos 6658 photos, 1033 members
- Amazonia Now 845 photos, 142 members
- Photo Kranti - Click For A Cause 1283 photos, 261 members
- LOVE & PEACE > READ THE RULES OR... 6647 photos, 1878 members
- Painted Trains 20444 photos, 1320 members
- Chucky P! 133 photos, 84 members
- Cats Sniffing Flowers - P1/A2 Sweeper Activated -USE THE CODE 6470 photos, 1792 members
- IRONICALS 1490 photos, 154 members
- The Blink of an Eye 2214 photos, 3226 members
- Modern ICONOGRAPHY 14241 photos, 1598 members
- onthewalls 178 photos, 48 members
- 10-25 favorites [No nudes / erotic] 25650 photos, 4655 members
- damage 8640 photos, 1184 members
- canadian architecture 3125 photos, 189 members
- wordiness 1064 photos, 112 members
- Obligatory Purple Objects 1730 photos, 487 members
- Hockneyized 371 photos, 148 members
- ALL THINGS ROUND 3140 photos, 437 members
- Oh Baby, Baby Blue! 4085 photos, 624 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
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