Hello all. School has been very busy lately, and on top of school work, I'm scheduled everyday after school for a different activity (MUN, Key Club, Math Club, Science Olympiad/Science Bowl, Speech and Debate). I'm also the publicist (hopefully soon-to-be VP ) of our Junior State of America chapter, an officer (leader) in French Club, and a captain/officer/leader of our Quidditch Team. Okay, I now realize how unbelievably nerdy all this sounds.

The point of that was to show how little time I have for photography. Not only this, but I also am going through a huge creativity dry spell. I no longer feel the same passion for the art as I did a year or more ago. I'm no longer as inspired by the photography of others, either. I'm hoping that this is a common element in every photographer's life, especially seeing all the other artists talk about their blocks in their journals.

I'll be taking a break from photography at least until the winter break. I'll probably get out soon and try to catch some of the Autumn color before it is gone. Other than that, I don't really see the art in my near future. I'll try to keep updated with dA, but with 2,000 messages and growing, I'm becoming more and more lazy If you need something from me, though I doubt it, you can shoot me a note

But just too lazy to answer anything



All of my messages are still in my message center and I plan to answer them soon... hopefully.

Okay, I was grounded for a week (thanks to ~seekingmarch ), but I'm back now. I have over a 1,000 messages so I will try to answer them as soon as possible, but will probably take several days. I want to thank you all for the support you've left on Medley It was a fun project. Since I love the garden and that particular tree so much, it's a bit sad being finished with the pictures. However, I was brainstorming and found some new creative ways to incorporate the tree in more shots, primarily based on weather. Hopefully we will receive some of the forecasts that I am wishing for, but at least it's the season for it

After visiting a printer after a commission, I was able to verify whether my calibration is correct. Seeing how my photographs looked on his screen, I came to the conclusion that I've been editing my photographs on a screen with too low contrast. This means that, under the right calibration, all of my photographs look over saturated and have too much contrast. My Cintiq seems to be the only monitor well calibrated, so I will be spending some time re-edited the majority of my photographs in order to fix them up. I'm glad this calibration mystery is finally resolved

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