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Originally Posted by davemac

I am blushing, and just glad other people like my output.
Although this photography malarkey is really a selfish pastime for myself. I use the fact that I am walking the dog and taking photos as my escape for a while, to get out, and away from things, and if I am honest I prefer it when I am on my own and with the dog.
If I want to faff about taking snaps, and move around trying different angles, I can do that on my own, however if I am accompanied I am aware that they are not taking snaps, or don't want to slide down a muddy slope to get a waterfall snap. I was trying to get back up a slippy slope today and said to myself, I will be glad when I am to old for this, but to be honest I hope I never am, as, for a while, I am a big kid again. There is also the stretching of time element, I say to my wife as I shut the door on the way out "be about an hour", she knows I could be much longer than that, so doesn't ring for International Rescue two hours later.

Having done all that I am glad to be able to share my pictures, and to look at other people pictures, it is always interesting to see how other people take photos, and this gives me ideas as I hope mine do for other people.

The whole idea of this 'Today in Pictures' thread that you started Dave is inspiring to me, even though I don't often walk out and take pictures (I will work on that!). I was out for a drive today, and in the midst of all the grey that is November, I was looking out the car window and thinking to myself: that tree would make a great shot against that sky, or I wonder if my Accy Web friends would like this view. It's a way of being, a way of seeing the world, and I for one am grateful for it. Many thanks fellow photographers.