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...
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.
My favorite guitar and amp
Here is link to page on my blog with a sample of my playing:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My DTank application
My WinImages application
Thanks for reading. I look forward to exploring Steemit.
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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STOPHi, @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
Welcome to Steemit!
Welcome, Ben. Hope you are doing well
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.
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
Good writeup! Your account seems new so I'm sending you my support. One upvote from me and I hope you will some day do the same!
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The stained glass is fantastic, would love to see more pics of that.
I'll be sure to do a post about it, then.
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