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I'm just a simple guy with a camera & with a love of God, Nature, and my camera...
Oh yeah... and I like to have a good while I'm out there.

I bought my first D-SLR in May '08 (Nikon D40) and have been going out attempting to learn & to practice the different features, settings, & composition ever since then.

A big thanks to my first photog-buddy, Dennis Derby,
www.flickr.com/photos/7391462@N05/
who started shooting about the same time and has been a great shooting / hiking buddy ... and a pretty good friend outside of that ! lol
... and thanks to the Wascally Kevan & his wife Linda
www.flickr.com/photos/35303070@N02/
for the accompanying trips and tips and encouragement.
... and, yes, thanks to people like Donnie/Connie, Tom, and all the other SoFla shooters for putting up with me ! lol

I like to experiment with different subjects ( landscapes, mammals, birds in-flight, people, and macro ) and techniques ( especially reversed-lens for macro ).

Constructive criticism is ALWAYS welcome especially if you explain why you perceive a photo to be lacking along with what I could do better in the future.

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I'd rather be on a trail than on a street...
I'd rather be alone than in a crowd...
I'd rather be enjoying God's natural world than man's concrete world..

( Then again, wherever I am I know that I can be happy& content ......... because that's the way I am. )

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I do make a conscious effort to attempt to visit the photostreams of everyone who leaves a comment / invite or "faves" one of my shots. It's not always possible for me to do so, but I do seriously try to allot myself the time.

HOWEVER... do NOT leave a comment on my photos which includes / advertises views of your pics and/or soliciting for people to visit you by telling/asking me & viewers to my stream to look, comment, & fave your photos... and do NOT post one of your pics in the comments under my photos ! ( ... unless you want to pay me to advertise your photos .. lol )

Dumping your pic into someone else's photostream is rude & uncalled for, and if you attach one of your photos to every comment that you want to leave then don't bother leaving a comment ! simple !!

* I WILL DELETE those type of comments, and I will NOT interact with you ! *

I am selective on who I add to my contacts.
I do not add people to see the number of contacts that I have rise, and I don't want to be on somebody's contact list just as a statistic so they can have hundreds of meaningless contacts.

I will block you if you add me to your contacts but don't bother leaving any comments (good or bad).
If you're going to add me then at least have the courtesy to say something : constructive commenting, good or bad, but DON'T add me just to see your contact list grow or to use for Spam.

I have seen some comments (on my photos & other peoples') that don't even relate to the picture.. just a "generic" comment... and use the same generic comment for several pictures. ( EG: "Nice color" commented on a B&W photo. I've seen something like a comment of "nice composition" on a beautiful landscape, but then the person leaving that comment left the same comment on a snap-shot of picnic trash, or some such scene.... and the exact same comment on 2-3 other photos.)

If you leave one "generic" comment and add me to your list then I will probably block you.. especially when you leave a generic comment and put a link in that comment back to your photos to entice somebody to go to your stream for ulterior motives.

If you add me but have your photostream blocked to show "nothing available" ... then I will block you.

If you spam me (auto generated comments or through FlickrMail) then I will block you and report you !


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My pictures are showing up in galleries, marked as "favorites," requested to be put in "galleries" which (when I investigate) turn out to NOT be a Flickr gallery but rather put on other websites, showing up in blogs, etc ....

If you have no icon / avatar, no profile information, no photos of your own, etc
then as far as I'm concerned you have no business being on Flickr ( a photo SHARING community ).
If you have nothing to share then stay off Flickr ! .. or at least stay off of my photos unless you can provide a credible reason as to why you don't have anything to share .. )

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There are many people out there who are better photographers than I, but I think that I do reasonably well.
While I appreciate those who ASK PERMISSION to use my photos... I abhor those who do not ask and seem to act with ulterior motives.

I appreciate those who have had the desire to use my photos and have gone through the legitimate and proper methods and to obtain and to use my photos.

Reminder to everyone :
These are MY PHOTOS and are copyrighted..

I put in the time, effort, and expense to get my shots ( good or bad ).. so please don't steal.

Do NOT use any of my photos without my written permission / consent and without due credit, etc.



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