About Leo Reynolds / LeoL30  

Profile last updated Wednesday 12th December 2007

I was into SLR and darkroom photography in the 70s and 80s. In that period I bought and sold up SLR kits three times. The expense, negative dust and scratches and carrying a heavy kit bag put me off photography. In the end, I went for a 35mm compact for parties and holiday snaps.

I bought a digital in April 2003 to replace the compact. I loved it. It allowed me to get back into photography. No limit on exposures and I could experiment with no expense. I upgraded in August 2004, loved the new camera even more. I started retirement on 1st Jan 2005, joined Flickr on 14th Feb 2005 and, as they say, the rest is history. In May 2005 I upgraded again to a dSLR and now have a kit bag and a darkroom (Photoshop) again. Browsing Flickr made me realise that I wasn't alone taking images of cans, piles of tiles, rust and squared circles (I didn't know what squared circles were then or how to crop them properly but I did capture one). So with carte blanche I capture anything and everything and don't feel self-conscious about it. Flickr provides the ultimate album for the photographs. Flickr also exercises the side of my brain that I enjoyed using at work i.e. organising and tagging the images, creating sets, admining groups, writing guidelines and webbing. Nearly forgot, photography with Flickr feeds my obsession of collecting things and it's a lot cheaper than CDs, DVDs and books. That's me in a nutshell...I can't leave the shutter shut.

My photostream consists of:

Photographs I've uploaded because I'd like the world to view and comment on them. They are organised in sets.
Photographs: [ Random ] [ Images in Explore ] [ Interestingness ]

Collection & Reference sets of general interest e.g.
Norwich Plaques I
Norwich Plaques II
Norwich Plaques III
Cemetery Symbolism
Stencils
Graffiti

Fun photographs of squared circles (over 10,000), letters (over 3,000), numbers (over 6,000), signs (over 2,800) and typography . They are organised in sets. Most of the images are posted to subject groups on Flickr.

Most of my photographs are covered by a Creative Commons License - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0.


I am a Flickr group fanatic. I admin/co-admin the following groups:

Group Announcements
Set Announcements

Cemeteries
Brompton Cemetery
Dublin Burial Grounds & Graveyards
Glasnevin Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery
Kensal Green Cemetery
Mount Jerome Cemetery
Necropolis Glasgow
Catacombes de Paris
Cimetière de Montmartre
Cimetière de Passy
Cimetière du Montparnasse
Cimetière du Père Lachaise
Cimetière Saint-Vincent
Graves, Tombs And Cemeteries
Headstone Military Badges
Cemetery Symbolism
Signs
Bad Signs
Stick Figures in Peril
Open and Closed
Restroom Signs
Mosaics
Mosaics - 4X4 with large center mosaics
Mosaics - Alphabets
Mosaics - Alphanumeric
Mosaics - Letters
Mosaics - Numbers
Mosaics - squared circles
Norwich & Norfolk
Norfolk UK
Normal for Norfolk
Salthouse Art
Norwich UK
Guess Where Norwich
Norwich & Norfolk Flickr Meets
Norwich & Norfolk Scavenger Hunts
Norwich Lanes
Norwich Stencils
Norwich Fringe Festival
Numbers and Letters
One Digit
One Letter
One Word
Punctuation
Numerical Extravaganza
Nine
In Numerical Order 2
In Numerical Order 3
In Numerical Order 4
In Numerical Order 5
Numbers in Sequence
sequential numbers
Count to 100 and back again
Countdown
Property Numbers
Identical Digit Numbers
Sequential Digit Numbers
Years
In Alphabetical Order
In Alphanumerical Order
The Rest
Door Details
Gargoyles, Grotesques And Angels
Hands, Claws and All Kinds of Paws!
House Names
Markers
Milestones
Object Blur
Object Sky
Post, Letter & Mail Boxes
Requiem For A Red Box
Push Buttons
Round Tower Churches
squared circle
squared square
Stained Glass Details
Street Names
Verdigris
Village Signs

Impossible flags
manhole cover
RUSTY and CRUSTY
37
Sequential Numbers
Day of the Month
Fractions
Dog Signs

I'm Male and Taken.

http://www.leoreynolds.co.uk
Norwich, England, UK