I'm not active at the moment due to ... many things.

Death takes its toll, or should I say deaths take their toll. Among other activities.

Signed up with Flickr in January 2006.

My camera is a Canon Ixus 50 (PowerShot SD400),

as of lately also Canon Powershot SX 200 is (with which I'm not yet familiar with at all).

See all my pictures on one page (why not):

www.flickrleech.net/user/soozika

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 :)

"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. Since I (finally) migrated to Linux/Ubuntu, GIMP is now on the agenda.

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

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

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/)