After a disappearance of close to a year I was contemplating on coming back here. As planned, I had put stuff on Flickr, and even started a webpage. But really, it's all the same, except there's more of a community down here. It's been a pleasant surprise to see how some of my old buddies here are still active and better at their art than ever before.

I've been working as a vet for about 15 months now and while things were initially a blur and incomprehensible, things are starting to come back to me. But in the beginning it was painfully obvious as to how much of your Uni stuff you forget, just by being stuck in the military for a couple of years doing conscription.

Well, I guess being called a 'maggot' in there didn't help much either. Nevertheless, an experience I would never forget, and one which I would never get anywhere else in the world, and not ever, if I had not been forced to do it.

Anyway, things at the workplace have been a rollercoaster ride. Hot and cold days. On some days I'm happily laughing with clients (not that I've received many 'thank you' letters though), and on other days I'm slumped in the chair wondering why I'm actually working in such a job for a miserable X amount of dollars per hour.

Then I think that perhaps I should have taken up photography as a career. That would be unrealistic however, given the state of my art. So, I'd rather keep things simple. Continue to be a vet, maybe things will just get easier. I don't know what the heck I was smoking when I decided to take up this job, but hey, they said it might be a 'calling'.

Wow.

That sounds a little more grand and sophisticated, doesn't it?

Anyhow, with a few hundred more pictures on my computer since the last time I posted anything here, I might as well sift through them and start putting them up here.

There's this Canon Photo5 competition going on in Australia that I've been busy with for a number of weeks now and there's just one entry (out of 5) that needs to be done. Those will be posted here also in due time. Not now. Can't afford to give ideas away, right?