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- New Zealand
- Deviant for 18 years
- paulstevens.nii.co.nz/
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Current Residence: Auckland, New Zealand
Favourite genre of music: Dance, pop
Favourite photographer: Duane Michals, Annie Liebowitz
Operating System: Windows XP, Mac OS X
MP3 player of choice: IPod Shuffle
Favourite cartoon character: The Pink Panther, Stewie Griffin
Personal Quote: "Obsession supersedes motivation."
Favourite genre of music: Dance, pop
Favourite photographer: Duane Michals, Annie Liebowitz
Operating System: Windows XP, Mac OS X
MP3 player of choice: IPod Shuffle
Favourite cartoon character: The Pink Panther, Stewie Griffin
Personal Quote: "Obsession supersedes motivation."
Favourite Movies
The Princess Bride, The Object of My Affection, Something's Gotta Give, Titanic , A Walk To Rem
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Celine Dion, Brooke Fraser, Delta Goodrem, Barbra Streisand
Favourite Writers
Agatha Christie, Walt Whitman, Edmund White, Susan Sontag
Favourite Games
Solitaire
Tools of the Trade
Canon EOS 350D, Canon 50mm f1.8, Sigma 18-200mm, RawShooter Essentials 2006, Photoshop CS
Other Interests
Photography, swimming, reading, films, singing, music, people, Jesus Christ
Be a Lover, not a Hater!
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I've been thinking. Life is better when you focus on the positive. It's obvious really, and very simply. Yet too often as humans we seem to focus on what is wrong with everything. Look at the newspaper. Any positive news is rarely on the front page, if in the paper at all.
As a person I want to be defined by what I love, not by what I hate. I want to be defined what I am, not by what I am not. Think of the Pro-Family movement for example. To make their message palatable they need to appear to be "pro" something. When in reality they are anti-gay. Or 'ex-gays'. Have they not considered the absurdity of that? They don't define themselves as st
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Quotable Quote:
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"And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible."
Richard Avedon, 1970
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The Pursuit of Happyness
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I have recently uploaded the fourth and final installment in the 'Happyness' series. The photos in this series are all spontaneous portraits taken in and around the slums of Calcutta during my trip there in the Christmas holidays.
My idea behind the this series (spelling taken from the film 'The Pursuit of Happyness' with Will Smith) came from thinking about what 'happiness' really is and how it is acquired. One thing that profoundly impacted me while travelling around India what how much happy those who were poor were compared with the rich.
Looking around at western culture and society so often one is 'fooled' into thinking we are all bor
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Dear Paul,
Greetings from India. I, Dr Aparna, am a doctor (Pediatrician) working in Delhi for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. While searching for copyright free pictures of Indian children, for a National training module on pediatric Illness we found your picture "Happyness No. 03" which is stunning.
If you kindly allow us, we will like to use the picture as the cover slide of the presentation. It is a non-commercial, academic use and we will be mentioning your name in the credits.
The presentation itself will not be published but will be used to teach pediatricians all over the country about protocol based management of common childhood disorders.
This being a government, non-commercial venture we do not have any funds to provide any remuneration for your work, apart from our heart felt gratitude.
We tried to contact you but the website link provided above cant be reached. So I am writing this from the account of a friend of mine who has a DevianArt id.
Please contact me over e-mail at aparna.sinha.deb@gmail.com
Thanking you
Dr Aparna Mukherjee (MD PhD)
Scientist
Department of Pediatrics
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi
India
Greetings from India. I, Dr Aparna, am a doctor (Pediatrician) working in Delhi for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. While searching for copyright free pictures of Indian children, for a National training module on pediatric Illness we found your picture "Happyness No. 03" which is stunning.
If you kindly allow us, we will like to use the picture as the cover slide of the presentation. It is a non-commercial, academic use and we will be mentioning your name in the credits.
The presentation itself will not be published but will be used to teach pediatricians all over the country about protocol based management of common childhood disorders.
This being a government, non-commercial venture we do not have any funds to provide any remuneration for your work, apart from our heart felt gratitude.
We tried to contact you but the website link provided above cant be reached. So I am writing this from the account of a friend of mine who has a DevianArt id.
Please contact me over e-mail at aparna.sinha.deb@gmail.com
Thanking you
Dr Aparna Mukherjee (MD PhD)
Scientist
Department of Pediatrics
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi
India
Hey Sexy!
Will see you tonight! I thought I would finally update my profile lols
Nemo xoxox
Will see you tonight! I thought I would finally update my profile lols
Nemo xoxox
Hi. I see your from NZ as well. Nice gallery.
Welcome 
I actually (sort of) know you, my best friend goes to youth group with your sister... that's how I got the link to your page.
Amazing photography!
I actually (sort of) know you, my best friend goes to youth group with your sister... that's how I got the link to your page.
Amazing photography!
Thanks for the fav!
You're very welcome. You're a very good photographer!
thank you so much for the fav