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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822527" data-attributes="member: 53455">A few years ago, one of the groups I then belonged to on Flickr had the great idea to propose a themed challenge comprised of a series of three photos and called “Autobiography”. In three photos, posted one week after the other, you were supposed to describe your life, first as a child, then as a teenager or young adult, finally as a fully grown-up human being. I found this extremely entertaining, although it was also challenging beyond anything I could have suspected when I decided to participate.This was the third photo, and it proved to be both the easiest and the most difficult to compose. The easiest because it being about the most recent part of my life, I could most easily put together some “documentation” to describe it; and most difficult because, for the professional side of my life, there really wasn’t much I could show: being a lawyer then, most of what I did was covered by confidentiality...For the non-professional side of things, I chose to illustrate prominently my sailing activities, first on small dinghies from when I was 8, then on as a qualified sailing instructor at Club Med at age 14 (things were different back then, I’m talking about the mid- to late-1970s), then onto bigger boats in the world of bluewater competitive sailing. I was the navigator on those big boats, at a time when satnavs did not exist, that’s why you can see charts, rulers, calculators, slide rules and dividers... It was loads of fun, gave me opportunities to travel the world, not to mention to sleep right next to Jane Fonda in a bunk on board #6998 Tenacious. For the professional side of my life, I had to make do with the official photo of the day I was sworn in, my lawyer’s robes, a windshield badge for the car and a professional ID.I uploaded quite a large version to Flickr (5,000 pixels in its largest dimension), so that people could zoom in and have fun trying to decipher and find some clues... A few did surprisingly well at identifying the items and the reasons they were included.As an exception to the one-photo-per-day rule, I also upload a small iPhone snap of the setup I used to shoot it. It was a focus-stacked shot, 12 exposures.Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 35mm ƒ/1.8 S lens. I won’t bore you with the technical and strobist info, unless someone specifically wants it, as you already have the small behind-the-scenes snapshot below.[ATTACH=full]408518[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]408519[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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