The power source on my laptop broke on Saturday afternoon, meaning I've got no computer at home until it's fixed....probably not till early next week (It happened when just about every Apple supplier in Lisbon has run out of stock of the cable I need).

My laptop is now dead as a doorstep, so I have no access to my photos and won't be able to submit anything until I've got it running again. Also, I can only check my dA account at work now, so I'm getting incredibly behind with messages and stuff. Please understand if I don't comment on people's work much this week.
I'll try to keep up with people's work and replying to messages..but I'm actually supposed to be working

Take care all

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Hello everyone, hope you’re having a great week.

First of all, thanks so much to everyone for the terrific response to my journal “In Praise Of Imperfection” last week, and the news article it later became [link]
I appreciated the response and I’m so glad that so many people related to it.

Not a lot to say this week, I’ve been busy at work and with organizing my trip to the Amazon and North East Brazil at Christmas, but I did finally get some time to get out shooting last weekend and for two nights I had some wonderful light and skies.
Now summer is over, we’re finally starting to get some decent conditions to shoot in, after months of clear blue skies without a single cloud. Hopefully it will be a sign of things to come for the next 5 months or so, and I’ll get out shooting more.

I’m also really behind with my messages here in dA, so if you’ve faved a shot, added me to your watch list, or left a comment, please don’t think me rude if I haven’t replied. I simply haven’t had time, but I’ll try and get through the messages over the next week.
I appreciate all the support, take care and have a wonderful weekend.

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Nikon D3

I'm slowly slowly saving up for one of these, but it's going to take me a while...at least until next year. If anyone's interested in some early reviews from professional photographers who've been given the chance to test one, I've linked a few below. The images are all JPEG and most are shot at very high ISO.

James Russel (photojournalist) [link]
Cliff Mautner (wedding photographer) [link]
Scott Kelby (Photoshop guru) [link] [link]
Ken Rockwell discuss Nikon sample images here [link]

It looks,to be honest, like an incredible camera.

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Featured Artist

Nilgun Kara *nilgunkara is someone whose gallery I came across a while ago. She works with the classic square format (much harder to do than it looks) and has some beautifully simple and elegant compositions.
Have a look at her breath-taking gallery




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Featured Artist

~adamsalwanowicz is a newcomer to dA, but his photography is certainly accomplished. There’s some wonderfully professional landscape photography in his gallery.




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Weekly Features














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Music

This journal is best viewed whilst listening to Bonobo

[link]

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Some of my recent work



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Clubs



Take care everyone