I though I would have something creative and witty to put in here while I've been away for what must seem ages, however I'm having a horrid time trying to think of anything of that sort to say. I hit an utter artistic slump which started leading to a slump in my life as well. I took what i considered a vacation, what most would consider hell to help me re-arrange my life and get it up again since my mothers death has been haunting me to hell and killing me inside considering I always blamed myself for it, dumb yes, but when you are really close to your mother and letting her down every way possible it's easy to forget that little fact that cancer can kill. But as i was saying I took a mental vacation. A vacation were I couldn't think about that sort of stuff. Were art was the last thing on my mind. I enlisted and completed my IET training with the US army (let the flaming commence, and in case you didn't know IET is basic training + AIT, my MOS training.) So that is were I have been "dormant" now that I have utterly returned from my ashes of my former self and moving foreword. which means using my creativity as an output because i know sooner or later I'm really going to need the out put and now that i have been flat with anything artistic or even held my camera in almost 8 months I feel that it is calling me back. now it is time for me to put my best foot foreword and relearn everything and become a somewhat active member on DA again, without it taking my life over and worrying about people liking my photos or renders and wanting to feel appreciation out of it, instead of doing it for others the way they would like. i will just do it for me pure and simple