One day a chicken will learn how to fly

(sincere apologies to Terry Pratchett for using - and mangling - one of his funny quotes, out of "Small Gods") :-)

Ooh Yess! Fly! Fly, free, free at last! :-)

What say you? Or more importantly, what do you think I am all about with this blog? Firstly, a bit of monologuing about myself, like a vain super hero, if I may :-P

My name is Thys, using the handle “groen hoender” (Afrikaans - a South African language - equivalent for “green chicken”) when I am using the internet. If I sign up somewhere on the internet and my nickname has been taken (very rare!), I then use the English equivalent “green chicken”.

The history of where I got the nickname “groenhoender / greenchicken” was during my early Java developer days at a small company, with co-developers / colleagues / geeks / nerds which have a weird or no sense of humour at all; an incident involving a very tight and bright green T-shirt (with funny cartoonist chicken as logo) which I got from an attractive (but mischievous) close girl-friend; which in turn invoked some risque tongue-in-cheek ribaldry from said colleagues. So, the name got stuck, to my misfortune (or not!) :-)

Ahem, uhm, I digress....now where was I? Ooh yeah.

Why this blog? Simply because I want do. No ifs or buts or whatever. Because I am an amateur photographer, with a keen interest in creativity and 'painting with light'. This blog is my canvas. My express board. And I would like to show some of my works, along with interesting posts. Senseless stuff like how to capture and process this boring photo into this awesome work of art. Or just expressing opinions on whatever that got my attention for longer than 5 minutes.

Just like that. And if you are curious, like me, on how this blog will unfold, well, ladies and germs, please hold on tight for the ride of your life! :-)

I also joke a lot. Even sometimes I don't get it....