Shattered Sun

I’m off to take a shower right now but I just wanted to pop on here and say that after a week of being sick, I’m currently trying to catch up with all my online stuff. I really am feeling better though. Just some lingering effects, at this point. Okay, hasta la pasta, I’ll write more later!

I’m sick. I feel like crud. I’m going back to bed now.

This is really aimed at people like Rachel, who take some awesome photos and yet don’t submit them to photo competitions. I think she could do well if she submitted one to the PhotographyCorner.com 2006 Photograph of the Year Contest. I mean, there’s no entry fee, the rules are thorough (but most contest rules are) and the prizes certainly make it worth a shot. I might even enter myself even though I wasn’t seriously focusing on the finer points of photography until recently. What harm can it do to give it a try?

I’m always wary of photo contests because you hear horror stories about what happens when you enter your photo and the contest isn’t really a contest. Well, at least not an above board contest. Thankfully, with all the wonderful well-known sponsors on this one, I feel safe participating.

And I bet at this point you haven’t even looked at the prizes, have you? There are some nifty Lensbabies (which I want), various softwares, bags, gift certificates and some snazzy iStock Photo stuff. Color me green with envy!

Oh, there is one catch that I found in the rules, so read carefully before submitting. You have to be a member of the forums to get the winning notification (it’ll come via private message) and you have to have made five posts on the forums before submitting your photo. That’s a breeze to do though! The forums are ones I wish I knew about before this contest. They have tons of information and it’s going to take me a while to get through them all. So, yeah, go through them and you’ll see that you have tons of things to say, so those five posts will be there in no time!

So Rachel… Which image are you submitting!?

Me? Why, I’m working on a million things at once, as usual. I haven’t completed my resolutions for the year, but there will probably be a post about those soon. Otherwise, I’ve finally gone live with Writes It Down. It is still needing a lot of work, but it’s up there just the same. The hardest part was working out the details with Wordpress MU. I thought it would be tough, but it wasn’t. Clean install, nicely done. I just had a few bugs to work out with my hosting company, but they were amazing, too. Now, to spruce that baby up and make it look totally snazzy!

In other news, I’ve done a bit of cleaning and can tell you that all of our medications are now of the None Expired variety. Oh, and I went through my bookmarks and cleaned out the items that weren’t worth keeping anymore. Others I deleted after adding them to my link list on this site.

Anyway, it was all stuff like that today. Keep an eye on this space for the resolutions.