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Well...the first part of this year has not went as I had hoped.  I closed my portrait biz to focus on volunteering for the American Red Cross.  That is going fine...but now things are hurting because of the loss of income...not like I was really making much before...now...I am not making anything.  
Tired of being overdrawn...and now my tool to make money has crashed and burned. The E3 is having focusing issues.  
Hoping things turn around. I have been off DA for awhile..but maybe creating some stuff will lift my spirits.
Wish me luck!

I am not much of a Golf fan....but Tiger Woods has always intrigued me.


The words that always come to mind is "fall from grace".  So it inspired this mornings manip.

I have another I did in the days following the Thanksgiving altercation that started the whole thing....


Human nature is never infalable...we are weak in general.  But those who appear to be the strongest also look the weakest when they falter.
It is just a matter of extremes I guess.

DM

It is a bit cold..but gorgeous this morning! I am heading out to catch some stock images with snow and blue skies icy fences and junkyard images!

Here are some samples!
(please follow my rules of usage)



Enjoy!

It is time for new direction and purpose. This year is focused on creating and selling art. I know it won't be like running a portrait biz...but the change for me was due!



I think my talents are best used to create meaningful artwork. Officially done with portrait studio biz!

So...happy new year to all my dA artist friends and watchers! I hope your year is as purposeful and eventful as you can make it!

"Change always comes bearing gifts."  Price Pritchett

"The birds are molting.  If only man could molt also - his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions."  James Allen

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."  Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

"After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully.  After five years, look at it with suspicion.  And after ten years, throw it away and start all over."  Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958


Happiness for 2010...plan for it!

Crud...just got through the xmas chaos..and valentines day stuff is already on the shelves.



Happiness is not a tended rose
Amid the prescient beauty of a garden:
Perhaps one senses soon some gate may close;
Perhaps one senses soon the earth will harden.
Years come and go like waves upon a shore,
Violent or peaceful with the wind.
After one has given up on more,
Love waits within the heart, its passion thinned.
Even in a passage void of light,
Nether windings black with rage and grief,
There are waters sweet with lost delight
In which one finds a strong, serene belief.
No happiness can overcome life's pain
Except one love, and love give life again
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