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Finally finished my Ph.D. (June 14, 2011)!!! Drop me a line and I'll tell you more, or check out my Facebook page. I must say that I love, love, love portraiture and the beauty of the male figure in all it's forms from artistic to the more raunchy, but it's the beauty of the artistic shots that I find most alluring of all.

Oh, and yes I'm over 18!

If your profile is all photos from the web, I probably won't add you as a contact. I'm more interested in seeing the real you and your life as it is lived.

For anyone interested, my thoughts on the world - The phenomenologist Edmund Husserl talks about our perceptions of the world and demonstrates how this perception changes and grows just by taking a moment to think about this place or thing before me:

"For me real objects are there, definite, more or less familiar, agreeing with what is actually perceived without being themselves perceived or even intuitively present. I can let my attention wander from the writing-table I have just seen and observed, through the unseen portions of the room behind my back to the verandah, into the garden, to the children in the summer-house, and so forth, to all the objects concerning which I precisely 'know' that they are there and yonder in my immediate co-perceived surroundings—a knowledge which has nothing of conceptual thinking in it, and first changes into clear intuiting with the bestowing of attention, and even then only partially and for the most part very imperfectly."

We all "know" what exists beyond the walls of our home because we have been out there before and have seen what is there present before us. When we sit in our house we can continue to perceive this world out of our immediate perception. However, if we stop to think about it, how do we actually know that that other world is still the same? By taking a moment to think about it, to study this one piece of our existence, we begin to realize that, what we think we know, we don't really know. The world is constantly changing including that world beyond our walls. We can never know with great accuracy what exists beyond our walls because it is never the same. With the passage of time, that world will be different as will the world I perceive immediately before me. You can learn a great deal about yourself and your world by taking a moment to consider the details and to question our understandings. Never be afraid to look at the single tree in a grove, because that tree will be unique and have it's own individual story to tell.

Note: If you add me as a friend or contact and this is what I see on yours (below), then I probably won't add you back. I usually don't block people unless they block me first.