What a wonderful story! Gaining insight into the background behind a photo truly deepens our understanding and appreciation of it-especially when the photographer is also a talented storyteller.
I’d be delighted if you would regularly share your photos with our group: A Story Behind the Photograph

Looking forward to seeing more of your inspiring work!

Thank you for your warm-hearted invitation and kind words. The group 'A Story Behind the Photograph' might flourish better in ipernity than in certain other photo and social media sites, because in my estimation there is a higher proportion of scholarly people in ipernity than elsewhere. To understand why this might be so, one should reflect on the democratisation of formerly 'closed shops': digital cameras made everyone a professional photographer; Desk Top Publishing made a printer's apprenticeship lose value overnight; internet search engines made everyone a know-all; social media provided a happy home for the opinionated, rude, and only semi-literate who could afford a device and an internet access.
I am afraid that my feeble railings against 'tech' scarcely qualify as a story; more an irritable discourse on progress. Progress now means you can't get the things that are needed to make other things continue to function, such as particular batteries, memory cards, spare parts. The demise of Nikon's F-mount was especially depressing.
Old people can get very boring, I'm afraid.

As somebody who is being constantly reminded now by Microsoft to upgrade my pc to Windows 11 even though it currently serves all my needs, I completely agree with what you say. It's all very irritating and expensive.