

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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- walking_man_munich 56 photos, 4 members
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- BIKER LIFE ~ done by bikers for bikers ~ 40949 photos, 3675 members
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- les vieux livres - A library of yellowed paper 144 photos, 42 members
- Cheese 2884 photos, 735 members
- Damn! I Wish I'd Drank That!!! 4264 photos, 1038 members
- Books/libros/livros 6830 photos, 1611 members
- this is not a glove 355 photos, 82 members
- INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF COFFEE CUPS 2148 photos, 487 members
- Favorites: 100 2410 photos, 1780 members
- Views: 5000 3491 photos, 2592 members
- The Gallery Of Fine Photography /No Frames, Signatures/ 8814 photos, 3378 members
- couves 129 photos, 49 members
- places of contemporary art 6391 photos, 621 members
- University of Munich (LMU) 45 photos, 17 members
- Wallscape Art 1390 photos, 77 members
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Testimonials (5)
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Auntie P says:
"I can't stop faving Soozika's work! It has a dreamlike quality and her use of light is second to none. She gives her subjects a pedestal from which to display their form, elegance and beauty. So many times I have been mesmerised by her images."
17th December, 2006
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PhotoGraham says:
"soozika makes beautiful, artful creations with light using the humblest objects. She reveals the inner beauty of a pear by striping it bare, standing it on a cold slate and shining hot lamps on it (and singing to it, that's where the magic is). She has dodged the footsteps of giants to capture a perfect fleeting shadow and can stack anything at least 10 stories high. Most of all she has a wondeful way of looking at the world and seeing detail, form, colour and humor that others might miss (or tread on!), and showing it to us in her fantastic images. Thank you soozika!"
3rd August, 2006
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thiooof says:
"What a lucky guy you are ! You are just entering in a wonderful world :
Perfect experiments with software, or simple poetic atmosphere, astonishing plays of shadows or colors... insects, flowers and other common subjects becoming immediatly surprising, incredible and very creative assembles...
The mind of Soozika is very open, always seeking something of different, her glance on the world is sensitive, her reflexion is constructive, creating then very often the surprise.
Soon 1000 photographs! Bon voyage !"25th July, 2006
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Amelia PS says:
"Soozika has a magical way of making "things" come to life.
She meticolously documents things, both living and still life.
I love her quirky compositions, technical expertise, and a soulfulness. I am drwan to her images and they always leave me with something to ponder on.
She is an alchemist of photography!"22nd July, 2006
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newfolkways says:
"Viewing the pictures from soozika is a thrill, with every photo a 'trip' in itself. There is no more creative person posting on Flickr than soozika."
6th June, 2006











