~Terminus~

~Consecutive Culmination~

~Sun Setting On The Tortalitas~

Looks like I'm not going to be posting an image tomorrow.
The start of the new year and a new beginning for me.
When I reached my year on Blip things were going to change.
Well things didn't change at all, I'm still posting every day.
I am consumed with a passion for an image a day, every day.
No time to do the other things I wanted to accomplish after #365.
There is an art show in March at which I wanted to exhibit.
I haven't even started printing or matting or anything else.
I need to make time for moving my photography forward.
And I'm afraid that The Blip is absorbing all of that precious time.
I still spend many hours a day, every day, producing one photo.
Travel, camera work, picking one image from as many as 300.
And of course, the love of my life, Photoshop, ah yes, Photoshop!
Before I get to the post-processing, I may already have 4 hours in.
In the evening I think nothing of putting 4-7 hours in Photoshop.
I need to use that energy to produce one image per week or two.
So I can have some time for printing and marketing and relaxing.
Part of my addiction to The Blip is this consecutive posting thing.
So when I don't post an image tomorrow it is no longer a concern.
I'll still be posting, but not every day, in a way that's quite a relief.
And I plan on doing a lot more browsing and commenting here.

So, what more could a person ask for, but -
401 consecutive postings, 43 photographs on the rated pages,
110,384 views, 227 subscribers, 6th spot on the popular page,
275 views per image, 46,988 images in my iPhoto database,
in one year(not counting the probably 40,000 photos I've trashed),
lately I've been getting between 20 and 30 comments per image,
all the camera and photography knowledge I've gained,
and knowing my way around Photoshop, kind of!
Plus all the friendships and associations I've made here!!!!
Please don't mistake this list as bragging, quite the contrary,
this list is very humbling and gratifying for me to look at.
So, what more could a person ask for?
Because of my love of photography,
I couldn't ask for anything more.

Thanks Blip, and Thank you all ! ! !
Oh, and I wish you and yours
a happy and blessed 2009.
;o))


edit -
I used an astronomers solar covering on the viewfinder
so as not to blind myself. Very dangerous to look
at the sun in the finder without such precautions.
And the effect of the suns rays is a by product
of using a wide angle lens, at full wide.
Don't ask me why that happens, it just does!
The sun needs to be in the very center of the finder
so as not to get flaring, then I cropped the photograph.