What are you looking here for. Everything is all about me.
Most of you, hopefully, know me before you come here, but I am a world traveler and I have been taking pictures all my life. I was lead to it by my father who bought me my first camera. He didn’t keep up with technology well, so never embraced digital photography.
This blog is a record of my travels and thoughts about things that are important to me.
As for the name, Curtsey’s Folly, it was originally a group on Facebook that I wanted to name Curtis’s Folly, but we could not agree on whether it should end in ‘s or just an apostrophe. Also, there are people in this world who call me Curtsey – mostly out of revenge. And so, Curtsey’s Folly was born.
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