RandyDandy, an American Expat in London

TGIP, folks. Friday is now Phriday here at randydandy.com. WTF? you may ask. Phridays give me an opportunity to step outside of my self-centered posts and blog about other folks, photographers in this case. At first this day was to be called Fri-ckr, and posts would be centered around the wonderful and not-so-wonderful things I find on Flickr. Some of you know my on-again/off-again relationship history with Flickr. A day devoted to this photographic dumping ground community could be just the thing to motivate me to use it in a more productive fashion. But the online photographic world is far, far bigger than Flickr, so I must broaden my vision to include other things.

First up is an impressive collection of self-portraits by Canadian photographer Laura Findlay, known on Flickr as lauraheathercarol. I’d like to admit that I was initially drawn to her photostream by her three first names. But actually I clicked on a photograph she submitted to smellsfunny.net, the internet home of the curiously named Flickr group Film is not dead it just smells funny. Although the featured photograph intrigued me, I was much more excited about the other self-portraits she has on her stream. Reminiscent of Cindy Sherman, Laura dresses up as other people, in this case people close to her who have died. She uses objects in her photographs that were important to or characteristic of them. I haven’t done any prepwork, so I do not have permission to blog any of her photos here, but have a look at some samples here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauraheathercarol/tags/selfportrait/. There are more in this series in her photostream; without a single tag or set to group all of them together, it’s hard to sort them out from the rest.

And a user who shall remain anonymous has this line on his Flickr profile: “I love Jesus, my Nikon D80, Apple Computers, playing guitar and singing.” Everyone else can just f@#! off.

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