Thank You! Be Back Some Day...

I just wanted to thank everyone for all of the wonderful support over the past 7 months that I've been here at deviantART. I have just recently passed 15,000 page views and over 700 watchers. Thanks for everything!

I am way behind on my messages currently. I've answered some recent comments, but many are nearly a week old now. I intend to respond to all when I get a chance, please just understand that it may take me a while at this point.

I plan on uploading one or two calendars over the next day or so, hopefully. After that I'm going to take a few weeks away from deviantART so that I can get some things "fixed" which are of urgent need at the moment. Sunday will likely be my last day on here for a while. If everything goes to plan (for once) I will hopefully be back on here in about 2 weeks and all should be well. If all does not go to plan, than I will probably be back on here sooner and that is the worst possible outcome...


If you haven't already done so, be sure to check out Denise's contest information below and be sure to add her to your because she is magnificent.


Animal Portraits Contest!




Denise (*dsoden) and I have joined forces to host a pretty wild and spectacular animal portrait contest. She is the brains behind this and organized the whole thing, but I am more than happy to help out with the judging and whatever else I may be of assistance with.


CONTEST JOURNAL LINK: [link]


Deadline: December 15th, 2009 at 11:59 PST
Mediums Accepted: Photography, Traditional Art, Digital Art
Number of Entries: up to three (3) per deviant
(though each deviant can only place once)

This includes invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, etc.
BUT please, NO HUMANS.

Deviations are NOT require to be new specifically for this contest.
Any of your own original work can be submitted.

Submissions: Please send a NOTE with the subject CONTEST to *dsoden.

If you would like to add to the prizes, please send *dsoden a note with the subject DONATION!

For a full list of rules, details and prizes, please see the journal entry ([link]) from *dsoden. Follow her journal for any possible changes and so on. Good luck everyone!



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Denise has many incredibly stunning photographs in her gallery that cover such a wide variety of animal species as well as nature and portraits. Her photos are are always creative, perfectly focused and absolutely inspiring to look at. She also has some of the best photo editing skills that I have ever seen.

Please enjoy the following features from *dsoden's gallery. Well worth the , I can definitely vouch for that. If you love what you see, be sure to check out the rest of her gallery ([link]) as well her outstanding portfolio ([link]) which is quite a pleasure to look through. So check her out or you may just miss out on something outstanding. I checked her out.







Oh and if you want to see some examples of Denise's amazing editing skills, here are a few of my photos that she has recently edited for me:



Who knows, maybe if I'm really lucky she'll edit some more for me.