I'm a software engineer turned attorney, but if you pressed me I'd confess I'd rather be an artist/architect/photographer/sculptor/furniture-maker/carpenter...

Some of what I put up on Flickr is passable "photography," but a lot is just an easy way to share family photos with family, or photos of the school plays with other parents, etc. So most viewers will find that stuff uninteresting, unless you're curious about how a particular lens behaves under those conditions. Although I'd still like to believe that at least a few of those are also technically well-executed photography.

My first camera was a plastic (bakelite?) Kodak "Brownie" camera, probably dating to the 50's, that I was given before age 10 in the 1970's. 120 roll-film, if I recall. A brief stint with a Minolta rangefinder (another of my dad's hand-me-downs) and then I was given an OM-1 with a 50/1.8 for my 13th birthday, to which I added a few lenses over the years. I've always been particular to Olympus, and I had an E-330, an e-510 and an E-3 four thirds. In the early 2000's, all of those OM Zuiko and other lenses started becoming available on eBay, and I acquired a rather large stable of them (and almost in protest, kept shooting film and scanning it). But then in 2012, with the OM-D E-M5, it seemed like the digital recreation of he way I felt when I first laid hands on that OM-1 years before. And it could use all those manual lenses, and manual lenses from other manufacturers. So now I have an E-M1 (mk 1), E-m5 (mk-ii), E-M1 (mk iii), a Pen-F (sometimes I'll just put the 17mm on it and try to get back in the rangefinder/what you see it what you get mentality), and a tg-5 for taking in the water or pool. (And then the underwater housing and getting back into Scuba Diving... a whole 'nother story)