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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Always been creative, photography was my first love at 13, could never draw or paint though, but photography really excited me back then when it was all mystical, with darkrooms, chemicals and various film types, and variations. At 16 I worked with a local tog on the local rag for a while, he had a darkroom and even though I used the one at school, it was here where I really learned how to develop and print.

All that has now obviously gone, not used film in almost 20 years now. Now it is the photography itself, I mean, it was the entire process, either using film or digital, but even more so when I began self portraits.

Along side all of this, I also learned how to play piano, guitar, ukulele, albeit fairly basic guitarist, and slightly better ukulelist, but I have played keys since the late 80s too, about the same time as my photography began, starting off with a cheap Yamaha PSR something, to a Yamaha DJX, RM1X and finally a Roland JP8000, my utter pride and joy until some shitbag broke in and stole it, along with my Yamahas and technics hifi, thankfully my camera gear was with me

Now I just have a cheap Alesis V-Mini using FL studio and Garageband, it took me ages to get used to the limited keys, im used to full size, in range and dimensions, and mostly compose my own trance music, though my latest was my own remix of Rank 1's Airwave, but I also created my own version of No Ordinary Morning by Chicane, very orchestral in the breakdown, all I sampled from that song was the lyrics, and the break beat I sampled from the original Led Zeppelin song, everything else was my own work. Currently working on an LP, not sure how to describe the musical genre, not quite ambient, not quite trance, with a bit of industrial thrown in, not always 4-4 beat at least, post club music, if you will.

And then there is my bonsai, a fairly new hobby, about 5 years in now, lost many trees, learned much, waiting for spring to kick in, remove any wires and wait until they start budding to repot some of them, then once they begin growing I can restart the styling process again, possibly my favourite part of bonsai, creating a miniature tree from pretty much anything!

What are your creative outlets?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Steelwork. I live creating things from odd bits and pieces just lying about. There's often no real design in mind.

I did get quite good at making dragons from chain and old car engine parts. I enjoyed that

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I write. I'm fortunate to be able to do it professionally as well, and it's all a creative process.

I sometimes write smut in the stories section

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By *izzibeth9Couple
over a year ago

Loughborough

I write code for a living. Dunno if that puts me in the creative bracket or not though.

Outside of that I (rarely these days) enjoy photography, and (even more rarely) play guitar

Wouldn't say I've got a flair for the creative though, and I've absolutely no eye for design whatsoever.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I write code for a living. Dunno if that puts me in the creative bracket or not though.

Outside of that I (rarely these days) enjoy photography, and (even more rarely) play guitar

Wouldn't say I've got a flair for the creative though, and I've absolutely no eye for design whatsoever. "

I have strong aesthetic and design preferences, but zero ability on the execution side

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Try my best to be creative with my pics as can see with my profile pic

As a job I am very creative can’t say to much though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I write code for a living. Dunno if that puts me in the creative bracket or not though.

Outside of that I (rarely these days) enjoy photography, and (even more rarely) play guitar

Wouldn't say I've got a flair for the creative though, and I've absolutely no eye for design whatsoever. "

LOVE that you write code for a living, I was previously a web developer big proponent of more women in STEM!

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7

I'm a photographer*. Not a "tog", which is a thermal grading for duvets.

*published.

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By *izzibeth9Couple
over a year ago

Loughborough


"I write code for a living. Dunno if that puts me in the creative bracket or not though.

Outside of that I (rarely these days) enjoy photography, and (even more rarely) play guitar

Wouldn't say I've got a flair for the creative though, and I've absolutely no eye for design whatsoever.

LOVE that you write code for a living, I was previously a web developer big proponent of more women in STEM! "

Yeah, it's always a surprise to me that there's never been a notable increase in the number of women who code. Across about half a dozen jobs over the past 10+ years, I've only worked with I think two female devs? And on my course at uni it was all guys bar one girl.

Out of interest what made you change career if you don't mind my asking?

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

I’m quite similar to you OP!

Always loved photography as an art form , creative composition and post processing interest me much more than the tech side. I do mostly street photography in Africa but last year started learning long exposure sea scapes and portraits.

I play a little bit of classical / flamenco guitar now and played bass in various bands when younger mostly thrash metal and punk.

I had 3 bonsai, 2 are now dead I dint think I’ll be continuing that hobby.

I’m quite creative with cooking and bread making.

I write a little bit of poetry and the odd story in fantasies section here. A little bit of Manga drawing but thats really not a natural talent !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Play guitar, can draw. But life leaves little time to endulge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I write code for a living. Dunno if that puts me in the creative bracket or not though.

Outside of that I (rarely these days) enjoy photography, and (even more rarely) play guitar

Wouldn't say I've got a flair for the creative though, and I've absolutely no eye for design whatsoever.

LOVE that you write code for a living, I was previously a web developer big proponent of more women in STEM!

Yeah, it's always a surprise to me that there's never been a notable increase in the number of women who code. Across about half a dozen jobs over the past 10+ years, I've only worked with I think two female devs? And on my course at uni it was all guys bar one girl.

Out of interest what made you change career if you don't mind my asking? "

I grew bored of dealing with clients lol I liked the coding side though! I freelanced so was usually balancing multiple demanding clients. I do get to use my skills in my current job though as I’m redesigning our website

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By *rad670Man
over a year ago

South Lakes

OP, your creativeness is hard to beat especially highlighted by your better than normal photos with your photography sklls.

I too am a multi instrumentalist, instrument of high skill is drums, seconded by vocals and guitar, rough bass and keyboards and love home recording when time allows. I restore and drive classic cars, try my hand at anything extreme sporty that takes my fancy and most recently kitted myself out with wing foiling equipment, oh and I'm pretty addicted to swinging

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By *aliceWoman
over a year ago

Birmingham

Music mainly. Have a drum kit, guitars, bass and midi controller hooked up to s computer with DAW so basically an amateur studio setup.

Other than that, I enjoy photography although am very much a hobbyist beginner and I make paracord whips.

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By *izzibeth9Couple
over a year ago

Loughborough


"I write code for a living. Dunno if that puts me in the creative bracket or not though.

Outside of that I (rarely these days) enjoy photography, and (even more rarely) play guitar

Wouldn't say I've got a flair for the creative though, and I've absolutely no eye for design whatsoever.

LOVE that you write code for a living, I was previously a web developer big proponent of more women in STEM!

Yeah, it's always a surprise to me that there's never been a notable increase in the number of women who code. Across about half a dozen jobs over the past 10+ years, I've only worked with I think two female devs? And on my course at uni it was all guys bar one girl.

Out of interest what made you change career if you don't mind my asking?

I grew bored of dealing with clients lol I liked the coding side though! I freelanced so was usually balancing multiple demanding clients. I do get to use my skills in my current job though as I’m redesigning our website "

Ah yeah, I can imagine that's not much fun. I've only done a little bit of freelance work early on in my career, but it was just too much hassle. These days I contract though, which comes with its own drawbacks but I don't think I'm brave enough for a career change

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham


"I write code for a living. Dunno if that puts me in the creative bracket or not though.

Outside of that I (rarely these days) enjoy photography, and (even more rarely) play guitar

Wouldn't say I've got a flair for the creative though, and I've absolutely no eye for design whatsoever.

LOVE that you write code for a living, I was previously a web developer big proponent of more women in STEM!

Yeah, it's always a surprise to me that there's never been a notable increase in the number of women who code. Across about half a dozen jobs over the past 10+ years, I've only worked with I think two female devs? And on my course at uni it was all guys bar one girl.

Out of interest what made you change career if you don't mind my asking?

I grew bored of dealing with clients lol I liked the coding side though! I freelanced so was usually balancing multiple demanding clients. I do get to use my skills in my current job though as I’m redesigning our website

Ah yeah, I can imagine that's not much fun. I've only done a little bit of freelance work early on in my career, but it was just too much hassle. These days I contract though, which comes with its own drawbacks but I don't think I'm brave enough for a career change "

Never met a female coder! I use to be .net developer and then managed in-house dev when I was younger it was all guys. Now I use vendors in various countries for dev and it’s still all guys !

The only women I know in tech are pm type roles and audit/compliance

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