I haven't written a "Thank you!" journal before, because so far I'm not famous enough not to be able to respond to all of my messages and favorites personally. And as you may have noticed, I don't write journals here in general.

It's been approximately 1 year and 6 months -1 and a half years- since I joined DeviantART and basically since I started to be interested in photography. It might not be news to some of you that I still use the same camera I started with, the Canon PowerShot A560, which's lack of Manual mode I complain about everyday. And I'm sure I'm not going to be able to upgrade anytime soon. Anyway, in case I would rob a small bank or crack an ATM, I would buy either a Sony DSC-H50 or a Canon SX10 IS. Yes, they're both bridge cameras. I'm very realistic about D-SLRs and let's admit it, if you can't afford to upgrade them after being bought, they're pretty useless and they limit you a lot (poor quality kit Lens, small Zoom, no Macro, no Video, etc.). Although even an entry level standard D-SLR gives you that DOF (Depth Of Field) and low noise at high ISO sensitivities that no bridge camera can provide.

Back to Earth, today I reached 13,000 Page Views.
I meant to "celebrate" at 10,000 but somehow I thought 13K would be more appealing, especially because "13" has some meaning to me. These are my gallery stats so far: [link]
I know it's not much, but considering the facts:
- I'm not very sociable around here
- I have no subscription
- I use a compact
- I don't shoot "artistic" nudes,
then I guess the results are satisfying.

I wish to honestly and warmly thank all of you who gave me any kind of feedback, to the ones who watched my photos and the ones who featured them. It made me very happy and anxious everytime. And nonetheless, I wish to thank my Yahoo! Messenger contacts who clicked and watched my Gallery when I featured the link in my status message. Every proof of attention meant a lot to me.

As for the Gallery, I changed the layout a bit.
I removed the Featured deviations because you can find all of them in the left folders/albums and I only kept some of the most important pictures (to me) to be Featured. The selection is still in progress. I had some images that didn't go in any of the albums that I already had, so I created a "Miscellaneous" folder and for the moment I placed them there. That doesn't mean they're bad or that they shouldn't get attention.
If you want to see all of the deviations in the descending order they were submitted (from last to first uploaded picture), just click Browse [link] and you'll see the Gallery just as it was before.

And if you got this far, thank you for taking the time to read my entry.