Old Man's Hands

These photos were originally part of my Flickr photostream. Mostly from between 2009 & 2013 - after my sabbatical, when I got married, and before our son's birth.

I took many of them on the ride back and forth to work, or during my lunch breaks, as I tried to make something of that time.

Initially I pulled 186 photos out of the thousands that I had uploaded to Flickr. My first thought was to keep this loose selection, I liked how it came into and out of sense, that it was purposeless and repetitive.

But in the end I edited down to the images here.

[The old man's hands are my father's, I haven't included the photograph of them, veiny against varnished kitchen table plank.]

...Except it could easily have gone another way, so the what ifs are here ---> Antichthon