Hello!

I'm Shades, a photographer, printmaker and creative technologist from Auckland New Zealand

Welcome to Flickr if you're new here, there's no algorithm and the current owners have far lived up to their promise of looking after the archive they've inherited

I shoot a lot of community music events and decided to start uploading here again in 2026 because I am sick of cutting my shots to fit Instagram ratios

I have had this account for a _very_long_time_ and I've left some older photos public, camera experiments, historical documents and travel photos - take a wee trip back in time if you like, you might see something unusual

My main cameras are the Olympus Trip 35 & Fujica GW690ii (film) and the Panasonic Lumix LX3 (digi)