RoughDiamond

Seriously! I just got here and have all these comments on my pictures and am having trouble keeping up saying thank you …

so THANK YOU!!! to all who view and comment … very much appreciated.

I recently got a new camera and my old work is not large enough to upload, well it is but not to sell anyway.

I’ll be around with more new stuff.

Cheers

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Thanks for all your lovely comments. I’ll be away from the computer for a little while. I’ve caught a cold and think I should stay in bed, or try to rest at least.

I’ll be back later.

Thank you all soooo much. What a wonderful place this is :)

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I thought I’d re-visit some of my old work from when I first started shooting. Some stuff made me cringe … I can’t believe I thought it looked good! aaarrrrrggghhhh

But I found a couple of pix that I could let pass and show on here.

I have hundreds and hundreds of photos to go through but they are mostly bad snaps if you know what I mean. I think I’ll look to the future now and if I…

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Or does this happen to everybody. When accessing an art work, the screen will automatically scroll down to the very last comment when in reality I would like to see the work and read the comments from the top instead of having to scroll back up again … and some of these have tons of comments!!!

Is this a bit petty or a valid point?

I can’t believe it!

I wasn’t expecting to sell anything for ages …

Thank you thank you thank you

whoever bought my Red & White …

I’m going to cry now …

back in a bit

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Well there you go. Meach had this brilliant idea of naming my journals Roughly Speaking. I love it.

Now all I have to do is keep up with the numbers cause I hate maths and I’ll probably get lost along the way.

I’m so happy about selling a card on here so early in my journey through RedBubble, it’s incredible.

Thank you all who have encouraged me with comments and replies.

I read this in a Reader’s Digest … can’t find it right now but I thought it was brilliant.

A couple and their friend who is an amateur photographer went to dinner at a friend of the couple’s house. After perusing the photographs, the hostess said “Lovely photos, you must have an excellent camera”. The dinner progressed and as they were leaving, the friend of the couple turned to the ho…

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I thought I’d better explain who The Official Train Freak is.

It is my son Daniel who is 8 years old. He totally adores trains and lives and breathes them. As much as I enjoy trains and photographing them, most of the comments will be from TOTF as well as myself.

Thanks for listening :)

I’ve had to pull out “Puppy love Hollywood style’ as the father of the model requested I not leave it there. Fair enough. So I’ve decided to print it for her and she can hang it up in her bedroom :) Lucky girls gets a Rough Diamond original .. woohoo

Thank you all for your lovely comments, they are very much appreciated and encouraging.

Later
x x x

What happens when you have a meeting with the boss of the town newspaper and you’re trying to get your folio together and the flippin printer won’t print right even though you just bought and put a new colour cartridge in and you do the test print bla bla bla and it all looks fine but when you go to print you get huge patches of magenta and bits of white lines …

Get a new printer you say? ...

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Woohooooo

I’m finally getting the hang of this layer business in PS … kind of … I just made a card with … wait for it … 5 layers!!!

Yes dear readers, you read that right … 5, cinq, five …

Going in for 6 … anybody for 6???

What’s the most layers anybody has ever done? That would be interesting to know.

Well today, as I turn 45, I landed myself a freelance, part time, call you when we need you photographer job. I start tomorrow.

I’d say I’m rather pleased. All that work to get my folios together, all the crying, kicking printers, screaming at cats, dogs, spiders, dishes, and unravelling toilet paper was worth it.

When I make enough money (ha ha ha) I am going to treat myself to my T-sh…

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This is getting good!

Thank you soooo much to whoever bought Death Lily … it seems to be a favourite with almost everybody.

Thank you x x x x

Are you kidding me?

I’m on the Front Page?????

I’m going to faint!

(see you when I wake up)

I can’t believe it. I was re-arranging my stuff and then zap … they are all gone … empty. I looked everywhere … EVERYWHERE … tmp files, recycle bin … nothing nothing nothing …

I almost cried … almost and you know why almost and not really?

Because I did a BACKUP of everything last night before I went to bed. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for this CD. It’s all there…

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When is enough enough? Or is it ever enough? Or is it never enough?

I don’t know. I have so many photos and bits of art that I want to upload to RB but when do you stop? Do you stop? Do you delete old stuff to replace it?

I feel as if I’m uploading too many, at least 3 or 4 a day in the past week. It will slow down of course as I have a shoulder operation coming up and school holid…

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Well !!!

I’m getting my third photo published in the newspaper tomorrow. My first two were in Adelaide. This one is the local here in town. I’m trying to get my name known around here and D.Boss (as I”ll call him cause there’s at least 5 David’s that I know here) has given me a huge break by taking on my freelance stuff (when it’s good enough) and also employing me part time. He’s quite …

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Oh boy.

It’s 11:11pm Thursday night and I’m just sitting down to eat my dinner. At the computer. Where else.

This afternoon’s little jaunt to the School Gala was nowhere near as eye opening as I thought it would be. It was freaking eye POPPING!!!

I spent 3 solid hours snapping constant moving heads, torsos, arms, legs, flying missiles in the shape of blown up toys, dodging running k…

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I was thinking yesterday as worked my job… quite a few photos didn’t work but I thought … meh … I’ve got PS …

How would I feel and how would it be if I and you and all of us didn’t have the luxury of PS and other manipulating programs.

If we had to ‘live’ with the shot as it was with no chance of ever getting another go.

I did that several times yesterday. Shots too dark.. t…

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Wait … I just bought that!

Yes I made a card for my Mum and bought it … so there :P

I think I’m going to use up my quota of !!!! but maaaate!!!!

I just sold a T-Shirt!!!! woohooo … Get cool – whoever you are thank you soooo very much x x x x x x x x x x

Let’s go out for a beer sometime :B:B:B

“How are you love? I don’t know your face do I?”

“No I’m new, only been living here for a year”

She looked like her face had been carved out of blazing red Australian soil and left to dry in the sun during the longest drought in history. Eyeing me closely, her face perhaps no more than a foot from mine, her breath smelled of tea and chocolate crackles. Mrs H as she is affectionate…

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Thank you to whoever bought Fairy Wings … It is such a wonderful encouragement to us starving artists!

x x x x x x x x

When sending Bubblemails, could you PLEASE let me know which group it is from … I belong to quite a few and am still getting to know people … the last 3 or 4 I received I have no idea which groups they are from.

So PLEASE mention the GROUP it’s from, otherwise the mail is totally useless to me!

Thanks in advance
x x x

Yesterday (Saturday Nov 24) was my first day out alone as official photographer for the Herald in my town.

I covered the Election – voting that is, the cricket, pennent bowls, tennis and cricket.

The voting wasn’t too easy as the official in charge person wasn’t too happy about me photographing in there. I did get a couple of good shots in though and I think D.Boss will be happy with tha…

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Somehow … I think I’ve done well.

3 weeks ago I sent out several emails to newspapers in my area letting them know of my photographic skills and available services.

Within 10 minutes, I was contacted by the Editor of the newspaper … in my town.

As of today … I’ve had 10 photographs printed in the newspaper … including a scoop concerning a recent AFL draft.

This is a totally …

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Thank you to the person who bought “I’ll take the pink one” .

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed photographing and playing with it a bit to bring out the colours.

x x x x x x

I just sold another card … boy oh boy it’s hot today!!!

x 4

Other stuff I’ve sold:

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I’ve had a querie for a COW calendar. I don’t have any cow photos at all …. Is there anybody in RB who can put one together then I can direct them to it and perhaps they will buy it!

I’d like to send a reply to them ASAP of course so I’ll keep this bumped in the hope that somebody will see it who has cows …

I would have put it in the forums but I feel the Community works faster :) x x x

I just uploaded this T and it sold within minutes ….

Now that’s fantastic!

Thank you so much :) x x x

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Good news!

I’ve just been booked to do my first wedding in February.

This is exciting. My shoulder should be pretty much back in action by then.

For those who don’t know … I’m having shoulder surgery on Dec 13 and will be out of action for a while until it heals enough for me to pick up a camera again and work on the computer. I might have to try clicking with my left hand .. shoul…

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To the wonderful people who bought from me today.

I’ve gone 7 days without selling anything and today … voila!

TWO t-shirts and 2 Cards!

Thank you all you lovely people. It really encourages us artists when our work is sold and appreciated.

x x x

That my dear friends, is the number of views on my work since I joined just over a month ago.

I wish to thank each and every one of you for your comments, your encouragement, your Bubblemails with critiques and helps and of course your purchases.

Red Bubble is a wonderful place to hang out and be me.

x x x x x

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Yes

Thank you to the wonderful lovely person who bought my ‘Stupidity’ T-Shirt …

It’s actually modelled after myself, so be careful what you do!!!

Love you buyers xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

just home from surgery

typing with one finger and lots of drugs

thank u all for comments

will catch up eventually

need to rest now

love you all

u too Basil Butterfly face x x x