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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 (1,563)
Contacts (179)
Groups (50)
- TEAMWORKS 63 photos, 44 members
- The Beauty of Sloughs 1,072 photos, 116 members
- Take my Picture! 1,196 photos, 334 members
- Photographic Evidence That Stephen Harper Eats Babies. 153 photos, 24 members
- Canadian Politics 2,134 photos, 149 members
- AntiWar: Pictures that Protest the Madness. 12,833 photos, 1,291 members
- GUSTO: Aging with Power, Wisdom, & Irreverence NEW RULES 3,032 photos, 522 members
- Black and white Cri 449 photos, 88 members
- Verde e Amarelo - Green and Yellow - Vert et Jaune 13,253 photos, 1,606 members
- Graphic comments 732 photos, 309 members
- Shooting Through Sunglasses 984 photos, 470 members
- 100 views + 10 favourites (unlimited) 47,423 photos, 5,880 members
- Animal Addiction! *Post one, Comment one plse* 110,376 photos, 7,894 members
- PHOTO / LYRICS 2,295 photos, 366 members
- Ernesto 1,142 photos, 602 members
- POSTER DESIGN 36,663 photos, 8,339 members
- Dumpr: MUSEUMR FRAMED PICS ONLY! 1,370 photos, 614 members
- Why doesn't anybody notice me? / Perchè nessuno mi caga? 15,720 photos, 1,374 members
- White Cats 11,586 photos, 1,149 members
- Beauty Parlors Everywhere 959 photos, 475 members
- AardCard Postcard Project 114 photos, 115 members
- *Cat Century* - 100 Views+ ONLY - please add the Tag "CC100" 24,894 photos, 1,442 members
- Patricks (or Patricias too) 595 photos, 34 members
- **A Big Fave (Invite Only)-Post 1/Fave or Comment 2 505,437 photos, 63,404 members
- Mundo Uno - One World, One Future, for the Children 23,136 photos, 5,223 members
- Christianity Unleashed 3,483 photos, 518 members
- Paris of the Prairies 2,350 photos, 157 members
- Ladies with Lawnmowers! 16 photos, 16 members
- Antony & The Johnsons 188 photos, 88 members
- *Connect* 7,272 photos, 422 members
- Photos of people taking photos 7,505 photos, 1,055 members
- Amazonia Now 1,135 photos, 136 members
- Photo Kranti - Click For A Cause 1,343 photos, 251 members
- LOVE & PEACE > READ THE RULES OR... 7,051 photos, 1,953 members
- Painted Trains 45,934 photos, 1,965 members
- Chucky P! 149 photos, 96 members
- Cats Sniffing Flowers - P1/A2 6,442 photos, 1,747 members
- IRONICALS 1,588 photos, 157 members
- The Blink of an Eye 2,105 photos, 3,090 members
- Modern ICONOGRAPHY 16,461 photos, 1,606 members
- onthewalls 192 photos, 49 members
- 10-25 favorites [No nudes / erotic] 28,594 photos, 4,621 members
- damage 10,123 photos, 1,214 members
- canadian architecture 4,357 photos, 211 members
- wordiness 1,043 photos, 120 members
- Obligatory Purple Objects 2,092 photos, 549 members
- Hockneyized 379 photos, 147 members
- ALL THINGS ROUND 3,822 photos, 440 members
- Oh Baby, Baby Blue! 4,474 photos, 643 members
- Daisy Chain................... 2,853 photos, 749 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