I got into photography late in life, starting in 2018 at age 54. I've been a street photographer ever since, wandering the byways of Seattle (at least when it's not raining).
Along the way I started to branch out, beginning with an exploration of portrait photography thanks to some meetup groups and a few willing volunteers. Then, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, when portrait meetups ceased and the streets became ghostly, I fell into a new genre which I called Urban Abstracts. For this I turned the telephoto lens I'd bought for bird photography out the windows of my hermetic high-rise office building, finding beauty in city details amid the weird geometric clutter of roofs and the occasional urban acrobats who work there.
Lately, with the slow return of normal human interactions, I've been further branching into event photography, though as I'm not doing it in a professional sense they've been catch-as-catch-can.
In my professional life I'm an editor, and have done some freelance work for the photography website DPReview.com.
Gear
I remain an Olympus shooter, even since their transition to "OM Digital Solutions" after the company severance. My daily pocket street camera is the Olympus Pen E-PL10, and for more professional-ish gigs I saddle up with the E-M1 Mark II. For my photo editing I use Adobe Lightroom.