waiting for Raquel's comments in my stream, is somewhat a 'habit' for me. her comments are encouraging, constructive, and positive. I believe that other people on her contact list have also felt the same thing as me. Nevertheless, this victorian mum also has an interesting approach on her work: resulting moody, mysteri… Read more

waiting for Raquel's comments in my stream, is somewhat a 'habit' for me. her comments are encouraging, constructive, and positive. I believe that other people on her contact list have also felt the same thing as me. Nevertheless, this victorian mum also has an interesting approach on her work: resulting moody, mysterious, and eerie kind of effects in her photo-shots. once again, thanks Raquel.

Raquel found my stream about four months ago, and it was one of the best days of my year. Coming home to see a handful of photos with encouraging comments and favourites is one of the best feelings. She always finds time to comment on any photo, even if it isn't one I am proud of. Her favourites must be filled, because… Read more

Raquel found my stream about four months ago, and it was one of the best days of my year. Coming home to see a handful of photos with encouraging comments and favourites is one of the best feelings. She always finds time to comment on any photo, even if it isn't one I am proud of. Her favourites must be filled, because she always puts a smile on everyone's face with just the click of that little star. Her photographic talent is astounding. Her eye for colours and detail always make her photos unique. They have been on Explore so many times because of the interestingness of them. Thank you so much Raquel, you inspire me to keep going with photography and I am proud to have you as a contact, avid photo viewer, and friend on Flickr. Tiffany

Adding Raquel as my contact is the best decision I made, and since then, she missed none of my images (and me too). She is so nice and always find time to comment my photos, which means a lot to me. She is a great encouragement and a wonderful person :) You will never regret the day u added her as a friend. Never. {… Read more

Adding Raquel as my contact is the best decision I made, and since then, she missed none of my images (and me too). She is so nice and always find time to comment my photos, which means a lot to me. She is a great encouragement and a wonderful person :) You will never regret the day u added her as a friend. Never. {Sorry, about my English. Its fails me always} Subin

Raquel is one of the most encouraging people I have ever met in my entire life. I haven’t taken one single photo without her writing at least 3 sentences of praise for it and adding it to her favourites as well. I don’t know how she manages to find something nice to say about EVERYTHING, but she does. And she’s not jus… Read more

Raquel is one of the most encouraging people I have ever met in my entire life. I haven’t taken one single photo without her writing at least 3 sentences of praise for it and adding it to her favourites as well. I don’t know how she manages to find something nice to say about EVERYTHING, but she does. And she’s not just like that with me – she encourages every single person on her contact list (and probably in her day-to-day life as well). On top of that, she’s a fantastic photographer herself (though too modest to admit that!) Her favourite genre is moody/scary/dark images, and boy does she do that well! Many of her images are downright creepy, all of them tell a fantastic story and they always have me lingering over them for long after I’ve hit the “favourite” button. I’ve honestly been quite scared by some of her best work, which is an amazing thing to be able to consistently pull off. But don’t think that’s all she does! Riddled throughout her photo stream are some absolutely fantastic landscape shots, some abstracts and some city shots too, with a few portraits here and there. Her “Great Ocean Road” shot is probably one of my favourite shots of the iconic Australian landmark because the processing is done so well and it looks so different to the boring, generic postcard-look. If you’re ever sitting there thinking, “I could really use a great big smile every day”, add Raquel to your Flickr contacts!