An diesem Sonntag bekommen wir Besuch von _Arshia_ – sie wurde von California CPA nominiert und ich freue mich, dass Sie dem Interview sofort zugestimmt hat! Ich habe beschlossen die Interviews (außer es gäbe schwere Einwände) in Englisch zu lassen und nicht zu übersetzen. Ich denke die meisten werden etwas Englisch können und kommen damit klar. Sollte wirklich jemand überhaupt kein Wort verstehen bitte ich um Info und es wird natürlich übersetzt – Ehrensache!

Nun aber zu Arshia und ihren Fotos auf Flickr:

Q: Give us a Quick description of yourself and where you come from and what you do outside the flickr life?
A: Well, I was born and raised in the crazy city of Tehran, in Iran. I was a teenager when I moved to Canada almost 10 years ago. hmmm, today I’m a structural engineer, so when I’m not flickr and I’m still at my computer, I’m probably designing a bridge or doing capacity checks on marine structures! Oh and I must say this, I love ice-cream, and chocolate, and I would die for chocolate ice-cream

Q: How did you meet Flickr the first time?
A: I met flickr almost three years ago, and I made my account to have a decent back up of my favorite photos.

Q: At what age you got started with photography? And why?
A: Hmmm, I think I was in elementary school that I fell in love with my sister’s Yashica FX3-2000, but back then developing photos were kind of expensive. When I was about 15 or so I figured I had a passion for painting and drawing so I started taking photos of what I liked to have a model and draw them afterward. And then the digital photography was another reason, I started taking more and more photos and I never had the time to draw them all, so I figured I liked photography more and painting was just an excuse for me to take shots of what I liked.

Q: what do you like Most on photography/what inspires you most?
A: Photography has made me pay more attention to my surroundings, it makes me look more carefully and enjoy the details. I am inspired with the simplest things of a daily life, and I usually try to look at something that a lot of other people pass by easily without even noticing, this could be a coffee cup, or a wet newspaper at a corner of a library or coffeeshop.

Q: Whats your favourite thing to shoot? Landscapes, People, Things,…?
A: I must say pretty much everything. May be not landscapes so much; but definitely people and their expression. And also random tiny little details of daily life, this could be a Monday morning dark coffee stained cup, or a martini glass at a bar on Friday night.

Q: What Equipment you are using?
A: In my kit you can find:
Nikon D40x,
Nikkor 18-55mm (the kit lens),
Nikkor 55-200mm VR,
Nikkor 50mm 1.4/f
Nikon SB-600
and
Yashica FX-3 2000
Yashica 50mm 1.9f
and I work on my shots and process them in CS4

Q: Your shots got a very unique style – where do you think this style comes from?
A: Well, thank you. I think most of my shots are taken during the day light, and they have a bright pink tone, I think my style comes from from my femininity. Most girls like pink, and bright colours, so I usually process my photos to somehow have a pink or yellow tone. It just makes me happy to have bright tones in my photos.

Q: Whats your favorite Lens?
A: Oh I’m in love with my Nikkor 50mm 1.4/f.

Q: Can you name your favourite photographer? Maybe a famous one?
A: Robert Frank, and I love his book “the Americans”.

Q: whats your favourite contact on flickr? And why?
A: Hmm, this is not an easy one, there are so many of them, they inspire me everyday, and they always make me want to take more shots. If I want to narrow them down, I would say:
California CPA, Ziemek T, ..Peter, camden olive, ~ulyana~, Mike Trent, ng.kelven…

Q: Have you got any real-life friends using flickr?
A: Yes Ulyana, and Ziemek.

Q: Do you use other Plattforms to publish Photos?
A: Yes, my own website that my handsome Mr made for me for my graduation present: sea2skyphotography.ca/

Thanks a lot for the great interview and a great week to Canada

Mehr von Arshia gibt es hier:
Flickr = _Arshia_ und hier
www.sea2skyphotography.ca

All images linked here are under Copyright of www.sea2skyphotography.ca – please dont use without permission!
Alle hier verlinkten Fotos stehen unter dem Copyright von www.sea2skyphotography.ca – keine weitere Verwendung ohne Erlaubnis!