Why photography.....

                       The operative word, as stated in the blog picture heading, is the word 'stroll'. Nothing fast or strenuous, but just a gentle meander through the issues, challenges, concerns, failures that I have experienced in my photographic journey. Approaching my 74th year, I eased into retirement about 12 years ago and was lucky enough to have had the good fortune to be able to complete four major world-wide travel challenges. Links to the blogs I completed for those journeys are attached in the right hand side bar for anyone interested.
                  As my retirement years loomed, I realized that I had to have a "next mountain" to climb. I researched and considered enrolling in university courses---Secondary school et moi parted at 17 and have always been envious of those, including both my daughters, who can display framed degrees in their homes. I had once read and was impacted by the wisdom that 10,000 hours of study plus hands-on, can make one a top expert in anything (even brain surgery) and while not sure that I have 10,000 hours left in me, determined that the biggest problem would be to select the field that would appeal to me in the LONG term. I figured that without the need of my younger years to earn hard cash, find new customers, please the boss etc., that it would be easy for my interest to too easily wane when confronted with intellectually demanding situations and progress failures. No interest in digging myself into a rabbit hole 'what has no exit'.