I'm not competing with anyone else. The high level of skills exhibited here on Flickr is mind-blowing. I just share what pleases my eye.

I'm a 74-year-old male, a retired public school music teacher, married and photography is my hobby.

I had 3K photos submitted to DeviantArt for 15 years. I moved here to Flickr because I didn't like the direction DA had gone when AI "photography" came along.

My father was an amateur photographer when I was growing up. He inspired me.

I remember the old days with analogue cameras, 35mm film and slideshows. The days when you took your roll of film to a photo developing place and you didn't know what you were going to get until you got it back. Those days, unless you had a set-up (dark room) for processing your own photos, you had to accept someone else’s idea of what your photo “should” look like. Plus we were paying for the good and bad photos alike. I don’t miss those days.