I first and foremost hope all of you are doing well and are happy ... that's the most important thing!! Next, I want to thank all of you who took the time to read this new and rather lengthy journal, but I felt that it was time to say something about what's going on with me and to try to do it in a different way ... new CSS design!! Before I go any further, I'm just trying to create a journal page on my own without any help except with what I've been reading about from books and a whole lot of trial and error!! So PLEASE!!!! ... I know that it's not near as attention-grabbing as so many others on here, but this is important to me for trying to figure this out on my own!! I would appreciate it if you didn't put it down if you don't like it ... I'm still trying and experimenting with it, okay??

Next, I want to fill you up with what's been going on with me lately ... which is not very good and will probably result in some of you taking me off of your friends list!! As most of you know from past journals and/or other resources, I've been having extreme difficulties in keeping up with DA ... in fact, keeping up with life, period!! The transition of returning to my job on a different shift, different hours, and all of the residual side-effects from it are more severe than I thought they would be!! I just plain don't have much time nor energy(physically and emotionally)to maintain my whole life in general!! My mood(s) haven't been very positive nor productive in any way in all walks of my life resulting in me to lazy, and just plain having a defeatus attitude. You might ask, "why is he telling us this"? Because of this negative "change", I've done a few things with my DA account that have weren't very positive nor supportive of you as artists and friends of mine on here ... Quite a while back ago, I disabled any and all receiving and updating of all new work, commentary, journals, etc. from everyone!! The quantity of inboard information, picture, etc. was to the point that I literally went into shock because I was just too overwhelmed to be able to make an educated decision as how and where to start with all of it. You also might have noticed that I haven't been submitting any new work either ... basically the same thing, I just kind of had this feeling of "what's the use?" This journal even took a whole lot of time to come up with because I was sick of my journal appearance and wasn't going to write anything until I could change how it looked (which still might need a lot of work)!!

In addition, I'm going to have to do something else which I'm not happy about, but I have to bail myself out somehow ... I'm going to send out a giant blanket "thank you" (as opposed to individual)to all of you who have faved my work and commented accordingly from even sometime ago up to just recently ... I don't know why you did, but I still appreciate it more than you will EVER know!!!

I've decided that I'm going to try to make a fresh start on here and just try again to maintain this site. I will tell you that I'm very close to leaving DA because I still don't know if I will be able to somehow control the upkeep on here, but I will try!! Also, I will be enabling all incoming new work and verbal commentary again after I finish this entry, but there will be changes made to my list as well ... I have many people that I no longer communicate with and vice-versa for whatever reasons!! This doesn't give me pleasure, but it all okay and I fully accept the loss to nobody's fault ... things just change sometimes!!

Furthermore, I know that many of you have celebrated birthdays the past few months and I didn't have an image for you as a gift or at least ... a dedication!! Even though I have quite possibly noted you, i still feel bad about not having a "gift" to you, but I don't have any images because I haven't had the time to go out and photograph anything!! To be honest with you, my mood hasn't been helping my motivation with much of anything including photography!! I agree, this is not much of an excuse, but I refuse to lie to any of you about this ... I've done enough wrong for awhile!!

As part of my punishment, I think it would be best not to fave nor feature me nor my images for awhile and hopefully all of this will eventually turn around!! I again want apologize (again) to all of you for my "deliberate" lack of support for such trivial reasoning, but I've put my "cards on the table" for you because I DO care even though I haven't shown it lately!!

I'm going to try to start something that I've never done since I've been on DA which is probably long overdue!! But, I'm going to try to do some featuring of all of you and your work in no particular order and reason except that I WANT to!! I hope you don't mind and I also hope that it will work within my new CSS(Catastrophic Styleless Sheets)!!

In closing, I again want to thank all of you for your support of me these past months and apologize for not reciprocating this back to you ... I'm very sorry!! You all have a happy and safe Halloween and with any luck, you will not abort me and I'll be able to see you again sometime soon!!
Many s s s and s to all!!

My first feature goes out to Gosia aka . I believe she came to visit my site first and more than likely ... because she and Sandy have befriended since she's been a member!!
After touring her gallery, I've noticed that she is quite diverse in her subject selection, perspective, and broad use of different focal lengths!!
From landscapes to architecture, from plants and nature to portraiture (especially those of her daughter) ... her photography is very well done!! Please visit her gallery sometime and check out the scenery of places she has been ... it is just beautiful!!

Here are just a few examples of her photography ...