Just busy.

There will be new stuff soon.

x

Edit, over four months later...

When I said soon, apparently I was being quite abstract. ¬_¬

Hello, all!

Recently updated with 10 shots which are all taken from film negatives or print scans that I've been meaning to upload for a while - all of which were taken a few years ago, a few of which were developed by me int he dark room! Hope you enjoy them!

I've got out of the habit of taking photographs lately as I just haven't had the time or oppertunities, so I've not got anything in the way of new material yet - although this will come soon hopefully! I'm going to endeavour to diversify my gallery and try new things. Particularly portraiture, amongst other things.
Also, I'm hopefully getting a DSLR soon, now I can afford it! \m/

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Check out a random deviant!
Theres an astonishing amount of talent out there on Deviantart, hidden amongst everything else. Visit random deviants and you might just find a gem! I spent a few hours clicking this, and seeing what I'd stumble upon. I have it bookmarked, now - and give it a click in moments of boredom. It really is worth it! Just browsing generally also turns up some fabulous images.
Heres a small selection of what I found, for your viewing pleasure. I must admit I favoured photography, here.
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10

*curses the fact that only subscribers can use thumbs*
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Thanks for dropping by!

~ Mark

Hello, everyone!

After a brief break, this journal (with the snazzy new header that should hopefully work! EDIT: It doesn't. I think you have to be a subscriber or something.) should herald a time when I'll update more regularly, and with less. Or rather, less at once.
New dA design, new updating habits! Might just work!

I've just got back from spending a week in a field with 5000 christians as part of the Newday Christian Conference which was, quite honestly, awesome! I won't bore you with talking about it. Sadly, photography wasn't allowed in the venues because of child protection issues, so I couldn't take many pictures.
Thats where the journal title is from - thats the event slogan. Its great seeing so many people fired up for Christ!

I've still got a load of film negatives and home-done prints to scan in and put up, so those are on their way soon - and the fund to save up for a DSLR is looking nice and healthy! Been hard work to get here though.

So yeah. Lots of exciting stuff happening...but as yet, no new pictures!

You guys are great.

~Smi

Through the darkness of my submission spree (135 later) we see the glimmer of the sun rising, and hopefully an end to my usual method of taking too many pictures and then uploading too many pictures, all at once.

I'm sorry. I really am ¬_¬
Those lovely people that watch me had their inboxes completely assualted by my onslaught of new deviations!
I hope you lot enjoyed them all! Thats my last update for a while (well, until I go through my folders again, and scan in the negatives and prints that I've got that I want to use. Bwaha)
Hopefully I haven't sacrified quality in the quantity (although I hadn't updated before this in literally a year)
I hate the fact that I go through phases of being satisfied and disatisfied with my photography. About 112 deviations in, the thought crossed my mind "Wait...what if all this is crap?!" before I shut myself up and carried on ¬_¬
Cough. Heres hoping.

I hope you enjoy my gallery! Stick around and take a look, and thanks for your patience.

Journal title comes from a track called Proterra by Runrig, if you cared. The lyrics are very cool indeed.

Stay cool, kids!

Because I've just finished updating all my existing profile, every single last picture. They're all there, hopefully much cleaner and with better contrast and sharpness than before, when I tended to over-do things.

Because I've got a ton of new material to upload. As an example of this, the first Heybridge Basin series picture, which is the first posted picture from my Canon A95 (It was the day I got it) Is number 0012 on the disk. Since then, my camera readout now says 2738. Theres a ton of new material (literally. Its going to be quite a job sifting through it to find the decent stuff!) that I want you to see, and among that there is bound to be some corkers. Stands to reason that I can't get it wrong all of those times ¬_¬

So stick around - theres plenty of new stuff on the horizon. Maybe even a little closer.



Edit-tastic!

Some numbers for you. I quite like numbers, some times.

D:\Photography = 3124 files in 72 folders @ 4.07gb on disk.
Current Deviation count = 152

I've made the "first pass" (no doubt I've missed stuff going through the folders, so I'll go back over it all later to see if theres anything else decent) over my 72 folders'o'crap to see what there is new that I can upload for your viewing pleasure.
I've made a folder, which has the processed stuff in it.
First pass = 135 new deviations. And I don't think I'm even done yet. That alone will almost double my total count, bringing it to 287. I'm scared.

I've got a whole load of negatives and photographs I developed manually (like, with the smelly chemicals and everything) that I want to scan and put up here.

I've now got the fun (HA!) task of uploading this lot through deviantarts rather irritatingly convoluted submission system.
But yeah, its on its way. I'll try to do them about 10 at a time or something, so your watchboxes don't get completely overloaded ¬_¬

HANG ON TIGHT, KIDS.

Thanks for your patience. I really need to stop this habit of submission - long long empty periods, followed by bouts of intense activity. Which means that a lot of my stuff isn't looked at as it takes a lot more effort to sift through a hundred odd submissions than it does two.
I'm stupid, okay?

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SHIFTY EYES.