Mick Yates

I like to travel and used to paint and draw. Maybe my head is still in the 60’s of my youth. My wife and I (and the kids) try to do something about the people of this world that aren’t as lucky as us.

My photography? I have used Nikon for 25 years, and have been all digital since the D1. My best work is eclectic, and depends on the mood. I like to find character and love colour – but I also enjoy the strength in form and composition of black and white.

If I have any kind of “vision”, it is about a “sense of place or personality” – who, what, where, when.

Some groupings of my images on RedBubble

*"painterly*":http://www.redbubble.com/search/mick+yates+pai...

“black and white":http://www.redbubble.com/search/mick+yates+b&a...

*"figures*":http://www.redbubble.com/search/mick+yates+fig...

“social development":http://www.redbubble.com/search/mick+yates+soc...

“Nikon images":http://www.redbubble.com/search/mick+yates+nikon

“Original paintings":http://www.redbubble.com/search/mick+yates+ori...

I am a longtime devotee of Photoshop and Lightroom – not just to enhance but to extend photography into the world of painting. Favourite filters include Nik Silver Efex Pro, for black and white.

And I also like to use words to explain and confirm. I have been online in different ways for quite a while, with LeaderValues, focused on leadership development, as my main site.

*"LeaderValues*":http://www.leader-values.com

“Posterous blog":http://mickyates.posterous.com/

“mick’s photo blog":http://www.yatesweb.com/blogger/blog.html

“flickr photostream":http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickyates/

*"twitter*":http://twitter.com/mickyates

*"Facebook*":http://www.facebook.com/mickyates

“my bubblesite":http://mickyates.redbubble.com/works

These Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain.

All the images in this gallery are copyrighted & may not be reproduced, copied, uploaded, published, or manipulated in any way without explicit, written permission by Mick Yates.