I love this quote by Leo Tolstoy: "If you want to be happy, be."

Hello, everyone! I’m excited to be part of the Flickr community. I love seeing all of your photos; photos from all over the world. And I love having conversations with you. It’s been so inspiring and…It makes me happy.

After retiring from being an urban planner, I moved from Northern Virginia (USA) - which is very near Washington DC - to Saint Petersburg, Florida, in 2018. I am a hobbyist photographer who is working on skills that allow me to capture the images that I want to capture (instead of by chance). I think that I can see a difference from my earlier photos to my more recent ones. Is this true? Will this trend continue? Hopefully so!

Please feel free to comment on how I can improve the edit of a photo: what you think works or doesn’t work. It will help me ☺️