I'm still amazed at how much creativity there is here on DeviantART. I just went through 10,000 deviations on my watch-list and although it took me forever to go through them, I'm glad I did! It gave me the spark I've been waiting for.

Looking at my latest submission (October 11, 2007), I realise I've been 'away' for almost two years. I haven't stopped taking photos since, but for some reason they have all ended up gathering dust on my hard drive. I've been lacking motivation to go through them let alone publish any of them on the net. Tagging them is probably the most time consuming thing I can think of, but in small dozes it should be doable. Problem is, I've got about 20,000 photos to go through (over 100GB) and that's not even counting the stuff I've taken on my PowerShot S80/G7!

Having seen all the wonderful works people have published over the summer, I've finally snapped out of my coma and started getting my act together.

A few weeks back I went through a dozen different photo management programs, but only one of them stood out: Adobe Lightroom. It's got everything a photographer would dream of, with the exception of actually retouching the photos (that's what Photoshop is for!).

I've already got some requests concerning my existing photos (bigger sizes, better quality), so I think I'll start with those. Everything I publish will be shared with a Creative Commons license here on DeviantART and Flickr so you can use them to your heart's content.

Wish me luck

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