So,

in an interesting string of events, my copy of windows died. Fortunately, I had the install disc and serial that came with an earlier box, and wound up with a much more stable copy than I had before. Conversely, as this is the fifth or sixth hardrive I've gone through, I wound up having to buy an external terabyte drive to dump three hard drives worth of crap on. The upside? I now have a crap ton of my older pictures, even though I am still missing about a year's worth that I am afraid I will never get back. What this means for you, dear subscribers, is that you will subjected to my older, perhaps newbier and defintely lower res images...

On the upside, those of you who actually know me will get to see some of the places I have told the outright strange stories of... and be presented with photographic evidence that I am not completely full of crap.

~W

I do a bit of Search Engine Optimization at my menial job, which has taught me a few things about internet traffic and pageviews.

As such, I've observed that my most favorited deviations are either of adorable animals, or Matt getting stabbed in the twig and berries with a lance.

This had led me to believe that the majority of DA users are sadistic 14 year old girls.

...Which, parenthetically, explains quite a bit about this little artistic/social network of ours.

I usually tend to upload in bursts... but this is gonna be a little much. I've got two shoots worth of pictures to upload... Including Fireworks, Fire Breathing, Shot-putting Polar Bears, Monkeys, Alligators, costumed as an elf, as Lara Croft, and as guy in a black shirt and sunglasses who didn't really want to be photographed!

I have broken 1,000 pageviews. As a result, I am disproportionately gleeful.

WOOOO!

*ahem* Now then, bearing in mind that I am primarily a writer/photographer and NOT an illustrator, I'm giving away prize art to the first person who comments on this. Specifically, I will take a custom image to the best of my ability, or write you a bit of something about a subject of your choice... Well, most subjects, anyway.

Most importantly, I really want to extend my gratitude towards my friends/loved ones and everyone who has stopped by... Thank you for making this awesome experience that it has been.

So, my parentals/grandparentals were kind enough to order me a Tamron Macrolens, so expect to be seeing a lot of bizarre closeups of random things.

That is all.