Hi John.
' Genesis '!! John, hush please. Even the walls have ears!! Banishment from the ' Landscape Forum ' ensued the last time.
Because my grandpa said what?
You are right of course..well let's split 50/50. John, except for a very very few things for me at least, life
is full of compromises. That is at it should be. How else would we, as a race, survive.
BTW, in my younger days I did drive through the mid-west. Fast!! If only I could it again. Same with my photography, some places I have taken days to get myself ' in-tune '. Others, I drove fast. But that was not necessarily the right choice. It just seemed so at that time.
No lofty ideals for me. Once in a while, very far and few between, I hit lucky and have an image that I want to enlarge and hang on the wall. It does take time, patience, other myriads of small details including the confluence of Leo and the NG10 ( or was it? )!!
I do like to meet people though. That has helped me more than anything else. Even in the most ordinary of places, a person, a smile, old age, a child..click! Those I cherish. Not necessarily as examples of some great work; but examples of how diverse we are..and then how much similar.
I have another advantage that works..come a little closer. please. I am rewarded, sometimes, by
miracles ( Asher can I use that word around here!! ).
Stay well and happy John.