Author: sedge808

what were/are the benefits of the Covid 19 pandemic?

  1. The really BIG one was: They now put soap in men’s public toilets. This never happened before this (well, only in rare occasions).
  2. They now have alcohol wipes in libraries, supermarkets and most retail stores. Before this the computers at libraries never got cleaned.
  3. (most) people cover their coughs and sneezes these days. This really didn’t happen before.
  4. Mandatory hugging is now a thing of the past. I’m actually grateful for this one. These days we bump elbows.

Do you have of any other benefits?

back to the beginning

(This photo of a chimney was one of my first photos. I loved it so much I had it printed and framed. It hung in my bathroom until 2022. )

The story of how I got interested in photography was:

I was experiencing being a victim of crime and I needed to be getting evidence, every time I went to the police to report each incident.  I was using my phone to take photos and the images were very much crap. One day I was in Dick Smiths and I saw a little camera (FinePix J10), on sale for $100 and something dollars, so I bought it in the intention to get better photos for the police.

Version 1.0.0

I started to use the camera for other things besides evidence and soon realised I enjoyed using it and I wasn’t half bad at taking photos.

To my surprise early on I got published by Apple for one of their apps. This is the photo…

I had a friend who was encouraging me and that really got me fired up. When I stated I was really into HDR. This was excellent for the abstract photos, but not so good for other stuff. I joined Flickr in 2009. My taste has changed a lot over the years. Bill Baldridge was one of the first persons I followed on Flickr. I still love the process of what my mind does when I think about when ‘seeing a photo’, and the satisfying ‘click’ that follows. Gavin.

Mr. Squiggle
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