Goodbye
After much reflection, I've decided to leave Flickr - or rather to abandon this stream. I have a couple of personal streams that I will maintain, because I still love Flickr as a tool for managing and sharing my photos with friends and family. In fact, I still love Flickr as a concept, as a community and as a place - I've met some wonderful people here, seen some remarkable work and learned an enormous amount.
For some time now, however, I've been becoming increasingly ambivalent about my motivations for posting here. There have been times when my usage has interfered with my life in a damaging way, and I'm far from sure that the yearning for approbation that Flickr can encourage is healthy. All in all, I just don't think that Flickr is good for me.
I'll be leaving this stream up for a while. Please feel free to download any photographs here that you would like to keep or print.
Thanks for everything. And good luck.
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Uploaded on Jan 5, 2009
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Le Flâneur
November 11th, 2008 - Paris, France
Sorry for the lack of recent activity. There won't be much over the next few days either, as I have my son visiting until Sunday. Still, at least he's started posting again on his stream.
Eagle-eyed regular visitors here may wonder whether this is a slightly jauntier version of the man featured in an image I posted a month or so ago. I'll leave it to you to decide.
I toyed with posting a colour version of this, mainly because the dark brown screen in the background (part of a sculpture, rather than simply a wall) has a wonderful Rothkoesque quality to it. But I finally went with black and white, largely on the basis that I love it large on black.
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Uploaded on Dec 16, 2008
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Mixed Messages
April 6th, 2008 - Lausanne, Switzerland
Strictly speaking I didn't get tagged for the "5 Thingy" meme, because Jamelah doesn't do tagging. But since I've been a bit anti-social with regard to Flickr this week (translation : since I've been busy doing much more important stuff in the real world), I thought I might as well follow the instructions : post the fifth photo from the fifth folder on your hard drive.
I took this in Lausanne earlier this year. It made me smile at the time, though not enough, obviously, that I actually got round to posting it here. The single word of graffiti, "voyous", may be roughly translated as "thugs" or "louts", by the way.
I can safely say this gains nothing whatsoever from being viewed large, but I'm feeling a little contrary right now, so here's the link anyway.
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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2008
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The Wolf At The Door
December 1st, 2008 - Brussels, Belgium
I'm more in a deleting mood than a posting mood right now - apologies to those who actually liked the last picture I posted (or any of the others I've just culled) - ultimately, I wasn't convinced.
I'll try to catch up on comments/streams soon.
This image, taken just down the street from the previous shot, is better large on black.
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Uploaded on Dec 8, 2008
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Passé / Futur
December 1st, 2008 - Brussels, Belgium
I was rather taken by the co-ordinated colour scheme here. Plus I thought it would be quite handy to have a guide to the lines on my hand right here on my Flickr stream. So much easier than having to search for "palmistry" or "chiromancy" on Wikipedia every time, and multi-lingual, to boot - though, strangely, in French there appears to be an additional line...
I'm flattered to say that this photograph was posted on the excellent ReadWritePoem site on May 18th, 2009 - with contributors asked to post their poems inspired by the image. You can read some of the results here :
Leaving the fortune-teller's by Tiel Aisha Ansari.
Untitled by Julie Jordan Scott.
Hands by Angie.
Incidentally, this is definitely better viewed large.
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Uploaded on Dec 4, 2008
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