Hello to those brave few visitors to this page. This is my first journal entry, and knowing me, it could be my last for awhile. I've been actively into photography for close to a year now, and I've slowly and very gradually gotten a bit more proficient at taking decent photos. What you see here is a part of that evolution.

Something I find interesting is how hard it is to get noticed in this and any established community, almost regardless of the quality of your work. I am grateful to =evy-and-cats for giving me my first real exposure here by featuring a deviation of mine in her journal. A Zen concept is that the only way to improve yourself is to lengthen your own line, rather than measuring yourself against others. I hope to do that here, despite being almost overwhelmed daily by the top-notch quality work I see come in each day.

I see better work here on a regular basis than I do in most photography books.