Hello Steemit

in #introduceyourself7 years ago (edited)


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That's me. Well, sort of.

Hi; my name is Ben. I'm an older fellow, trying to take life easy these days. The picture of me above is a couple decades old; I show it here because this, to me, looks most like me. Age has turned my hair grey, and my eyes have been fixed so I no longer wear glasses, but... when I look at this, I think "yes, that's me." But...


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This is what I actually look like today

I go by "fyngyrz" because one of my lifelong interests is playing guitar; I have been playing for fifty years now, mostly rock, blues, and folk music.


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My favorite guitar and amp

Here is link to page on my blog with a sample of my playing:

A tribute to Led Zeppelin

Some of my other interests include consciousness theory, photography, radio, reading, writing, martial arts, cats, and converting the old church I live in with my very creative partner, Deb, into a home:


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Our home, before Deb replaced all the yellow stained glass.
We built that little house for the local feral cats, but we put it
out front for a few weeks just for fun.


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No more yellow glass – Deb made new glass for every window in the building

I have been an engineer and programmer by trade, have some business involvement in the publishing industry, and I also taught martial arts for about forty years, though age and health issues have finally caught up with me and I no longer teach.


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That's me again, back in the day

One of the reasons that I enjoy photography is that I have a condition called aphantasia which means that I have essentially no visual memory. If you ask me to imagine what waves rolling in on the ocean looks like in my mind, I can't do it.


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Instead, if you ask me to recall something I have seen, I will give you a description in words – that's all that is in my mind. Because of this condition, photography gives me a way to recall and remember that I don't otherwise have. As you might imagine, I take a lot of photographs.


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The Atlantic ocean from the coast of Florida

I will post some of my photographic work on Steem as time goes by; I know my way around a camera in the technical sense, but my "artist's eye" isn't well developed, so I actively try to improve my composition and framing skills. If anyone gets any enjoyment out of my photography, I would be most pleased. Because of my memory issue, the fact is that I am sharing my entire visual memory of a moment with you. Photographs are my visual memory.


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October 9th, 2012 aurora, shot in northeastern Montana

Directly related to this, in my programming work I have written several photo processing software applications. I often use them to edit and otherwise adjust my photographs. One is called "WinImages", and was developed commercially for Windows some time ago, and which I have now made available for free here; another is DTank (for Developing Tank), a free program for OS X, and is something I am working on right now – it's nowhere near finished, but is far enough along that it can be fun to play with.


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My DTank application


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My WinImages application

Thanks for reading. I look forward to exploring Steemit.

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Welcome to steem. Great to see your varied interests

Welcome @fyngyrz

Hi Ben... Nice to meet you... Welcome to Steemit.... This is a nice intro post...I must say that you are a multi-talented person.... I hope you will do great over here as a steemian... Follow Me @onority

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Hi, @Fyngyrz, Let me welcome you to Steemit. Hope you gonna have fun with our community. Feel free to follow me @rightuppercorner Have a great time @rightuppercorner

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its great to have you Ben. I am following you from now on. I hope you can write programs for steemit to make it more organized and help find content and groups of people of similar interest easier.

Welcome to Steemit!

Welcome, Ben. Hope you are doing well

A new Steemian ^^ hello @fyngyrz I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community ! Nice post, wish you much luck! I will follow your account. Don't hesitate to contact or follow me at any time :-) See you around @tradewonk

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