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You wish for snow for months and what happens? You get months of it. All in one day. Having headed to training at 6.30 this morning I had only a slight hint of what I would be greeted with on my journey home. Then it was a light sprinkling. By the time for my journey home it was a blizzard. It gave me a great opportunity to get some “winter” shots in though - even better test out my new lenses…

Sorry I’ve not submitted much, but with my exams only just finished and the new semester having begun this week I’ve not had much opportunity to get out and about with my camera. Hopefully on Monday I’ll be able to get my film processed that I just used up today. I’ve not been commenting other people’s work as much recently either, having only found he odd couple of minutes here and there to lurk in the background looking at other people’s work. If anyone wants me to comment any of there work, please feel free to ask – why anyone would actually want me to comment their stuff is beyond me though.

Oh, and I can’t help but mention that on the 28th this month *dapejn announced to the DA community in the form of two photos that he became an uncle! Congratulations mate, I wish you all the best of luck and good health in the future!



I’ve really had a great time the past couple of weeks on DeviantART being added by many extremely talented artists – including one or two artists that I’ve really looked up to since I joined DA not that long ago and even a few fellow Scots! Thank you so much everyone for your support, it’s really great to see that people do enjoy my work and you all have been a motivation for me to keep on going.

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I’ve been following this talented deviant soon after I first joined DA. He has enormous flare with a camera and also is a very talented artists – whether on paper or on the computer. Recently though he has started to support the community much more actively via his journal. Indeed many of the ideas for “featured” stuff were concepts I initially got from kernos. With 3,774,928 deviations quoted by DA at time of writing and god knows how many deviants there are out there this site needs more people like kernos to help highlight some of the great talent that can easily be missed by others. I hope many follow in his example.

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I’ve seen ~lotofire’s talents developing for some time now and I have to say – she really does have talent. Recently she has been experimenting with macro photography to great effect. It’s by far my favourite work from her to date. Indeed I had a hard time selecting one deviation from the many she has posted recently on macros. In the end I went for this excellent piece that looks as though it would be quite at home in a fairy tale. To me the lighting and composition are astounding, seemingly (to me) departing from the more “traditional” tried and tested composure normally employed in such a photograph. You would do well to have a good look through her gallery – past and present. There are plenty of gems to find in there. I know I can be very critical about your work at times lotofire, hopefully this highlights how much I actually do love your stuff really…

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