Cheerful, music-loving (and playing), hard-working appreciator of life and beauty, travel & people, city and country. Like sensitive intelligent men not macho ones. The men I like best have strong feminine sides. Have lived with several and love them all still - plus some of their kids and wives. Sensitive is a word that fits women better, as I have been discovering - and enjoying and learning from recently, helped along by Flickr and, would you believe it, clog-dancing and going to folk festivals with my women friends. I am quite shy so these discoveries have taken a long time, after years of serving men, including my children who are now in the process of leaving home, allowing me new freedoms and the chance to learn new skills and graces. Having my husband leave me for a younger model (and then he left her too) was terrifying at first but has opened new horizons once I stamped on my tendency to reach out for a replacement man in my house. Even trying a bit of poly-relating and have recently had intimate relationships with a lovely gay woman and, more surprisingly, a gorgeous, much younger mainly-gay man. Quite an eye-opener but I did my exclusive commitment for the past x years and more so I'm not into anything too exclusive right now. And I'm learning a new mind-set (and a new body-set!)

I like things that are gentle and natural. So I can go for nakedness and intimacy if you photograph it beautifully. And I do not see the point of wearing clothes in private or on (not too public) beaches. But I do NOT wish to see pics of just male body parts or pictures that are nothing but porn here; there has to be something artistic or loving about the photos to appeal to me. Women's bodies have more aesthetic appeal and age is no barrier. People fascinate me and photos tell their stories. I guess I'm just nosey; I do like to glimpse your lives - and bodies too - and I love to see photos that show you care for people and have a delicate soul.

No longer so new to this site but a photographer all my life. Only went digital in 2006. Been 18 awhile. So have my children. Dad still alive in his 80s; Mum left us last year. Sister in NZ and brother in Oz: both have kids too - and partners, though my sister is not with the original one Nothing like! And nor, emphatically, am I! Hint: mine have got less macho as I've got older - and am learning to be bit less possessive. Of course I love younger women and men, to look at, photograph, admire and touch. But people my age and older are the people I can most easily laugh and share with.

Living in the countryside. Also love to be close to the sea. Recently also began to share a house in Southern Spain with a couple I know and love. There I am learning to love the warmth and light - and the inner peace it brings me and for the way my friends, who are a bit younger and completely committed to each other, include me in their life.... and for the beautiful beaches and freedom not to have to wear much or anything at all if we don't feel like it around the house or on the shore. Amazing how confidence in myself, liberation from the norms of my upbringing and the freedom to be me (and to share what I want with whom I choose) have come to only as I step onward into my 60s.

I am taking beautiful photos again too.