martsen79

I am still alive.

Very busy, though, and not managing my time with enough efficiency to allow for things like deviantArt or photography (or AIM, for that matter).  Besides school, which has been horrendous, there has been personal stuff aplenty going on, and the reworking of several of my basic assumptions, come in through a back door (and over several years) and now developed into a more serious matter.  I don't think I'd call myself emergent (though I identify with them in many ways), but I've certainly abandoned fundamentalism, and this for a variety of reasons.  It can be a bit difficult moving to a different worldview than the one you were raised in and that many of those you respect uphold.  But this is another matter for another time, as I am sure not all of you are interested in my spiritual and philosophical (and, one can but hope, Christological and Christ-seeking) ventures these days.

I have also acquired an internship that will be taking me to the west coast for the summer.  This is all to say that I have had more to do and more on my mind than photography and dA.  I have a series of submissions to go through, and I will - as always - look at every single one.  I just don't know when.

Blessings to you all!  I'll see you when I see you.

Because I'm a dork, I didn't realize until just now that I can apparently make prints.  So everyone can submit prints now?  What's the dealio with that?  D'oh, if only I'd noticed in time for Christmas.

Speaking of which, a merry/happy Christmas to all of you!  Now go be with your family and friends.  

I've finally gotten through all my built-up messages from my hiatus during the summer.  There were over a thousand deviations and hundreds of journal entries, and it took months (particularly done over the past few weeks), but I viewed and read them all.  My barrage of favs, and sometimes comments, can quit now, as there is a lot of really good work sitting in my favorites gallery.  The people and the art - that's the reason I came back to this place anyway.  Speaking of people, there are too many of you whom I know all too peripherally.  Hopefully I too will be doing some photography relatively soon - it has been far too long.

I always have much to say, but how much is relevant to dA et al, I don't know.  And plus, it is good to learn to listen (and get on with schoolwork, besides), so I'll put a stopper to the journal, rather than rambling on anymore.  Have a good one, everyone.

I've been slowly going through my built up stack of deviations (and still am - 829 to go, plus 217 journal entries... I will read and view them all), and I've come across a lot of really amazing work by JCNero.  I was rather surprised to find very few comments and favs because the man has simply amazing black and white photogrpahy, some of the best I've seen on dA, and just lacks popularity.  Not that I'm a popular photographer, but I can at least tell you.  

If you're reading this, you should stop right now and check out his awesome gallery: jcnero.deviantart.com/

Yes, I'm alive.  Sheesh, you leave dA for just a few months and you get 1000+ messages from the thing (mostly others' artwork).  I will get to it all, but it will be quite some time, as I am still quite busy.  In fact, I should be doing syntax homework right now, but a lack of photography for a while (and it has been a long while) drove me to think about dA and - oh my, it's been an awful long time since I logged on that thing.  Maybe I'll tackle all my messages in piecemeal, but I doubt I can look at them all even within a month.  Just wanted to put up a post letting you know I'm not dearly departed, didn't drop off the face of the earth, and haven't been abducted by space geckos (yet).