So I've been giving deviantArt a miss lately. Why? Mostly due to a combination of work and having a shit camera. Now though, I've got a Canon EOS400D, and a new job. In fact, since my last journal posting (Nov 2006), a lot's changed. I left my old job with Digital River in August of 2007, and I now work within walking distance of home, earning $10k a year more and doing a lot less.

This means I've got the opportunity to go out and take some awesome photos.

I'll get to that in a minute, though. Let me explain something first. Back in the day, I joined deviantArt not because I consider myself an artist (at least, not other than the "piss" variety), but because I wanted somewhere to host my photos and to give them some exposure, and dA did the job wonderfully.

However, since I joined back in 2004 a lot has changed on the net. There are now sites where you can simply host photos, not artwork - which is perfect for me. I don't really give a damn about the categorisation system here - it's great when I want to find a certain type of artwork/photo, but when I just want somewhere to dump my photos it's a pain to have to pick a category for each one.

This is where Flickr comes into the picture. Thanks to Windows Live Photo Gallery, I can simply select the photos I want to publish, select the "Publish to Flickr" menu option, pick which of my categories it goes into, and up they go. It also has a cleaner UI - far less cluttered, in fact.

Don't get me wrong, this site is great - it's just not great for my purposes

So if you're interested, you can find my photos here, on Flickr. I've uploaded four of my newest photos to my dA gallery, so you can get a handle on what's waiting.

Michael