I capture images because photography allows me to combine science and art and I value them both.
I write crap poetry and fiction, that's why there's none of it here.
I play no musical instrument but a day without music is a rarity.
I have an intense dislike of right-wing ideology rather than any kind of love affair with the left.
I'm an agnostic atheist who sometimes worships at the altars of Bacchus, the god of wine and Veronica, the patron saint of photographers (and, apparently, laundry workers).
I have little respect for any beliefs lacking support from empirical evidence. Except as mythology, which I do enjoy.
By the way, I'm neither a philosopher nor an historian. I'm an amateur photographer trained as a scientist.