Neil Creek – Photographer

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I love Flickr! It magnificently combines a powerful and fully-featured image sharing site with community features, to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Here I discuss the ten things that I love most about Flickr and its users.

Flickr has changed the way I share photos online, and has made building my blog and the community around it that much easier. But there are some things about Flickr, and the people that use it, that really get on my nerves. I want to get these off my chest.

I was browsing through Strobist’s favourites on Flickr, as I often do, and I was inspired by this photo of an American penny to try taking a macro photo of a coin again. I tried shooting a coin with my macro tubes the very first day they arrived. I’ve learned a lot since then, so [...]

Today I came across a fantastic little tutorial that reminded me of a cool optics phenomenon that I learned about in physics in high school. Based in the principle of polarised light, the following magnificently coloured images are of common transparent plastic objects when viewed through a polarising filter and backlit with a polarised light [...]