Hallo Mark, and welcome to ThePhotoForum

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You only just found us - and already know that we are having "Avatar-Self-Portrait-Month" ?

That is good! Very good. Nice to see a face immediately with a first post.
So I hope you will enjoy yourself here, look around, comment here and there, tell us more, if you want to, and send in your own work. That'll be fun!
By the way: yes, that person in my avatar is me, but meanwhile, after that photo had been taken, some 40 years have come and gone................ I have changed a bit, but only a little, in the course of time.