About an untrained eye / Tom  

I'm a Flickr revenant, back after two years self-imposed exile...

Most of what I post here will be street photography - it's my real passion, though I'm strictly an amateur. There'll be a few landscapes and cityscapes from time to time too, and the odd embarrassing self-portrait. Family photos, with the very occasional exception, will be elsewhere on Flickr.

My intention is only to post my best photographs (or those dearest to me), and not to flood the stream with a hundred images every time I come back from a trip.

Some of the earliest shots posted here were taken with an Olympus, but the majority have been taken with a Lumix Panasonic DMC-FX100 - it doesn't always give me the quality of image I would like, but it's hard to beat for discretion when taking candid street shots.

What else is worth knowing about me ? Well, I'm a deleter. Periodically I look back on my stream, think "Why the Hell did I post that ?" and hit the delete button. I try not to delete anything that's been faved (which sounds like a lame attempt to get people to fave my pictures - really, it isn't), but sometimes it takes a few days or even longer of looking at an image on my stream before I'm really sure that it doesn't belong here.

Similarly, I'm not the kind of person who's going to fave a hundred pictures a day. If I've faved one of your pictures, it's because I've totally fallen in love with it.

Which leads me on to one last thing : I read on another contact's profile something along the lines of "And check out my Favourites - that's where the best stuff is to be found." I can't claim to have seen more than a tiny percentage of what's on Flickr - as I write this, I have commented on around 7000 photographs, which as far as I can see is roughly the average number of images uploaded every minute - but I can say that I've been blown away by some of what I've seen. If you want to discover something new and magical - check out my Favourites.

I'm Male.

Geneva, Switzerland