Sorry I have been well invisible the last couple of weeks. Been working on something. Still am actually. I just took a break to make this Christmas post. I have a new holiday desktop wallpaper for everybody. Sorry it's just in time to be late. I give you Christmas Star.

This morning I was inspired by what was out the window. It turned out to be a nice desktop wallpaper.

It turned out to be a nice desktop wallpaper.

So I processed all the images for Daniela and sent them to her. They came out great! I'm very happy with them. She seemed as happy as one can, in an communication medium as emotionless as email.

After her model release came back to me in the mail today, and I saw a couple of cool images on a photographer forum. They inspired me to try processing them again. This time with cool colors and more style. My first versions were nice, but pretty straight forward, nothing really exiting.

So I sent her an email thanking for the prompt return of the model release, and letting her know I was making new Totally Frelling Cool versions of the images . I didn't use those words, but that's what I said in my head.

I finished 2 Hours later. I had a dozen images that now were Totally Frelling Cool, as I previously stated, was what I was going for. I sent them to her, and put a few up on my Model Mayhem page.

Now that might seem fine, but I'm still working on them. Tweaking a little here and there. It's as if, I think I'm finished and send them out, or use them. Only after, do I realize they aren't quite right, and have to adjust them again.

That's what makes me a N3wb. If I were a real pro, I would make my adjustments. Look at them again in a week, tweak them a little. Then wait another week, and if I still like them, only then would they be shipped out.

This is a version of a desktop I'm working on. Something to remind me every time I sit at my computer, that I can be a good photographer. I hope it works.

My newest desktop! It was taken as a submission for an online photo contest. It won't win, not even in the running. But I like it.

I actually like it better than some of the contest leaders.

The only response I received from my request for photo assignments lead me to a local car cruse. I got some great shots. Because of the cluttered location I couldn't get many nice wide shots. But I was able to grab some great details.

Widescreen Monitor : Old Monitor : HDTV

My favorite is this new desktop wallpaper. It's clean, simple... and very powerful, I think.