Thanks for stopping by almost a million times since Jan 2007!

How to play here:

.....Check out the photo sets and collections.

.....Play the matching game between the Source Photos set

.............and the circles/kaleidoscopes/mandalas = Cirkalmanda set.

.....Play the guessing game in Beauty is Everywhere...Can you guess? set.

.....Post a caption for the three turtles on a log and the other pictures

................in the Write a caption set (Misc collection).

Hope you have fun playing! Here's the profile part.....

About me and my cameras: I've worn glasses since I was four (that was in Illinois in 1966, you can do the math) and I couldn't see the notes at my piano lessons. Even so, I really enjoy what I can see, and have been taking pictures since I was in 5th grade. First an instamatic, then a tiny little Minox 35mm to travel to Europe in 1979, and finally went digital in 2002 with an Olympus C-3020 (most water pix). In the past I borrowed my daughter's Fuji.Finepix A330 (all Ireland pix, rarlt California pix). Then I used a little Kodak C875 I took everywhere. Lately, like many others, I just use my phone, a Moto G5. I've lived several places in the US: midwest, east coast, west coast, and south.

My photography style: I suspect that my interest in photography is a blend of a misguided attempt to deny impermanence and a more altruistic desire to share those moments that I've enjoyed. I love exploring how much information we need to recognize something. This influenced the matching game and the guessing games mentioned above.

It was my eye doctor who told me about Flickr. When deciding what to upload first I finally realized it was not just color and variety that I love, but also shape and contrast, so I uploaded black and whites first. Then one day the prism cast a rainbow in the sink and the result is the Games with light and water Set. I have learned so much about photography and perspective from all of you since I joined. Thanks.

Other interests: When I'm not taking (or editing) pictures, making friends around the world on Flickr or doing taiji I'm usually working with Universal Education www.compassionandwisdom.org and their 16 Guidelines for Life initiative www.16Guidelines.org . Some of the materials I have helped to develop are there or at stores.lulu.com/florasabi or at www.florasabi.org

Or I might be teaching music lessons to about 30 students a week (piano, guitar, bass, etc.), or enjoying my family (my husband three kids and my sister). Life is good.

May all who read this or see these pictures have happiness!

dflora_pix's flickr score: 2912