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If you want good "Photography", please look elsewhere!

I am an artist and an illustratorā€”not a photographer. I spent most of my adult life in an office behind a computer during the day and doing something creative at night or on the weekends.   I was never fortunate enough to devote myself fully to my art.   Over the years, I probably have experimented in just about every aspect of the creative artsā€”both visual and performing arts.   However, I have never dabbled in photography until my husbandā€™s daughter gave him (what I called) a ā€œreal cameraā€ as a gift for Fatherā€™s Day back in 2016.   He graciously let me "try it outā€ and, poor guy, he never had it in his possession since then.   After retiring and moving to North Carolina in 2017, I really had (for the first time in my life) an opportunity to devote my daytimes to pursuing my creative gifts; and, like most things that I do, I gave it my all.   Over the past five years, I have taken and catalogued over 200K nature shots from our backyard alone.  It is f...