I make photographs of nature. Birds, landscapes and whatever else I can find outside. Unschooled in the visual arts - learning by doing and reading, learning by seeing others' creations, have given me a great deal of pleasure and changed how I see, day by day.

flickr often disappoints me in its barrenness of meaningful comment, lack helpful or interesting back-and-forth. One thoughtful/insightful comment is worth hundred "faves" and a thousand of those silly, gaudy badges. I also weary of the silliness of heavy-handed policing of groups, and the weaning out of earnest offerings by self-appointed arbitrators. I have considered leaving all groups - but then I have friends in some of them, and it's another way to say "hi".

Photography of people baffles me. I admire those who do it well. Cities... the same, though I avoid them when I can.

markgibson45@protonmail.com

About half my time is in Utah, half in the Adirondacks of northern New York on Lake Champlain. Two places far different on most any scale one could choose, excepting a similarity in a richness of places wherein the grimy hand of man has touched lightly, or not at all. And these are the places I favor.

It's presumptuous to think others would wish to use any of my images, but, in any case, they are mine, and to do so requires permission.