About soozika  

Signed up with Flickr in January 2006.
My camera is a Canon Ixus 50 (PowerShot SD400).



See all my pictures on one page (why not):
www.flickrleech.net/user/soozika

My Favorites set gives you a fair idea where I'm coming from, photographically speaking ... until now.
Same goes for my collection of Favorites (beware, quite extensive).


I sort of rediscovered photography about two years ago (i.e. 2004) and although I put a certain degree of ambition into it, I pursue this activity more or less haphazardly and out of sheer pleasure. At the moment, anyway :)

I like to see things from different angles, so please feel free to praise :), but also to criticize. I'll gratefully take it in if I see the point, I'll disregard it if I don't or I'll store it in my memory for further reference in case the penny drops sometime later. Meaning that I won’t have sleepless nights over any well-meant criticism - knowing that everyone has their personal standards, way of seeing things and preferences - in photography as in "normal" life :).

NUTSHELL VERSION :) I find praise as great and helpful as constructive criticism.

"Since you asked:"

I use a 35W halogen (= tungsten filament) desk lamp with a flexible stem. For post-processing I usually tweak brightness and/or gamma and get rid of unwanted bits with the brush or clone function of ACDSee. I find PS too daunting at the moment.


If you are interested in using my pictures, please contact me. Thank you. :o)


The camera inevitably lies, so choosing the kind of lie you want to tell is actually the creative act of photography.
- Brian Eno

Ernest Hemingway: "Good pictures, what camera do you use?"
Irving Penn: "What typewriter do you use?"'

"Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don’t try to be outstanding; don’t try to be a success; don’t try to do pictures for others to look at -- just please yourself."
- Ralph Steiner

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
– Susan Sontag

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
– Susan Sontag,

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
[my Canon Ixus 50 counter says 5,985 right now, so ...]

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
– Ansel Adams

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
– Diane Arbus

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
– Allan Douglass Coleman

Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that they constitute a (meaningless) pattern when seen from a certain (not particularly special) place in the galaxy (here).
- Richard Dawkins

Reality or existence is a multidimensional and interwoven system of varying spectra of emotions and vibrations - and man's five senses are attuned to only very small bands of these spectra.

Gott ist nicht tot. Er lebt, es geht ihm gut und mittlerweile arbeitet er an einem weniger ehrgeizigen Projekt.

In Wirklichkeit ist die Realität ganz anders.

Ein Kluger bemerkt alles. Ein Dummer macht über alles eine Bemerkung.
- Heinrich Heine

"We are all born originals, so why is it that so many die copies?"
- Edward Young
(courtesy of www.flickr.com/photos/cheguevara2001/)




You Are 70% Creative




You are beyond creative. You are a true artist - even if it's not in the conventional sense of the word.
You love creating for its own sake, and you find yourself quite inspired at times.

How Creative Are You?



Russia is actually a joke - it was merely one stopover in Moscow in 1982 at -30 °C ... and I also set foot on Greenland only because of an emergency landing in 1976 ...but I'm too lazy to do it all over again and change it now.


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