I like to take pictures in art museums, and ask permission first. They usually say no flashes and no tripods. So I don't carry a tripod and use a camera that doesn't have a flash. Therefore no accidental flashes.
Don't like it one bit. Changing clocks is a crude way of changing people's schedules, and too forceful.
Fight your father against his abuse of self and Mother.
f/1.4 wide open could appear less sharp than f/1.8 because it has less DOF, but we all know that, right?
Looks like you are doing fine!
I was a small, timid child. Unskilled at any game played with a ball. So slow learning to ride a bike that I had to borrow a small one from the boy in the corner house who was half my age (12), and ride it up and down the sidewalk between our house and his, with big circles around his tree and in the grass at our house. Dad teased me for having a friend half my age, but I knew I was different from the rough boys who started fights and showed off tricks they could do on a bike.
Most often, I like to hike nearby mountain or river trails, see what I can shoot with one camera and one lens, extra battery. Favorite camera is the versatile Leica Q, for scenery and macros of small flowers. If I travel long distances, take everything I own, for occasional bird nest or anything distant using a heavy spotting scope on a tripod.
I ask people not to make faces at the camera. Prefer to see people in their chosen setting and activity, so the picture tells something about the subject.
I have used my Leica summicron M 90mm F2 for outdoor portraits and find it perfectly satisfactory for that. Don't own a 75mm.
I subscribe to LFI, the Leica Fotografie International journal, English version, which arrives sealed and not mangled, mailed in Germany. High quality printing, skilled photographers using Leica equipment on worldwide assignments of great variety. You could call it a geographic magazine. Very little space for advertising, other than detailed descriptions of new and old Leica equipment. The lfi-online website includes a gallery which demonstrates the photography which Leica promotes.
You sound good to me. My path was similar. Work part time, visit places that appeal to you, try new adventures with family, spouse, friends. Take digital pictures, keep them on a notebook (mine is a 15" Mac) in the Pictures folder where you make sub-folders with names of places and dates that makes it easy to find whatever you want to review, display, print, or email. My biologist spouse got the hots for a small log cabin overlooking a waterfall on a creek, where we are spent the day and night yesterday.
Yes, every shot. I routinely crop, adjust exposure, tone curve, frequently white balance.
I have had several favorite Leica cameras over the years. My first digital Leica was a Digilux 2, which I still own, and may be my all-time favorite, because it is so easy to use. After that, I was impressed by the increased performance of newer digitals, although the owners manuals have become harder and harder for me to understand and employ easily. I have almost given up on making changes in the camera's settings, and take pictures based on my artistic desires, and adjust them on the computer in Adobe Camera Raw.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.