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Photography is a growing interest that provides much enjoyment, but I have a lot to learn.

I live to be outside and dream of endless mountain meadows sprawled beneath pyramids of sky-scraping peaks.

I've found that a camera is my most consistent companion on trips, explorations and wanderings. My only goal is to capture where I've been and what I've seen in hope of somehow relating the moment of each experience.

Sometimes the only record of my wayward footsteps is a photograph as proof that I was there.

“I thought about evolutionary historians who argued that walking was a central part of what it meant to be human. Our two-legged motion was what first differentiated us from the apes. It freed our hands for tools and carried us on the long marches out of Africa. As a species, we colonized the world on foot. Most of human history was created through contacts conducted at walking pace, even when some rode horses. I thought of the pilgrimages to Compostela in Spain; to Mecca; to the source of the Ganges; and of wandering dervishes, sadhus; and friars who approached God on foot. The Buddha meditated by walking and Wordsworth composed sonnets while striding beside the lakes.”
― Rory Stewart, The Places in Between