Hello. This is my flickr stream. It serves several purposes.

These days, it is the closest I come to writing a blog - so sometimes it contains photos of things I have just seen or am thinking about. It's a way of showing my world and my life to those who don't have the privilege of living in Manchester / London / Leipzig / wherever (delete as appropriate).

It is a place to put my photographic successes (and sometimes failures), as I aspire to greatness in photography and mostly achieve "quite good". So your feedback is welcome in helping me to improve and make the most of that rather fine camera I got for Christmas.

It's a place to share pictures of friends and family, though often access is limited only to actual friends and family. So, if you know me, go on and get yourself a free yahoo/flickr username, then ask me to give you access to all the lovely pictures of people I know. You won't see most of them otherwise. And it'll allow you to leave comments.

I love the fact that saying I am 'into' photography finally gives me a believable excuse for wandering a few paces behind everyone else, staring at the world around me rather than joining in the conversation. Sometimes I'm up for the conversation, too, but don't be surprised if I break off suddenly when something catches my eye.

Since I use Ubuntu (GNU/Linux), and flickr's new uploader doesn't work properly for me, I use an application called postr which is the best Linux flickr app I have had the pleasure to use.