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I really feel bad when I have to do this: remove over 10,000 deviations, over 1,000 journals, over 100 critiques etc without looking or reading any. For the past months I have had no time to do anything on dA and I still have only little time ... the weather is good and I have to open my artisan stand every day in temperatures around 90 degrees to make my money. When I get home at night I am burned out, fried crisp, well done. But I have done several good shoots in the past 6 weeks plus I made a lot of new jewelry ... so I need to share all on dA. Over the next couple of days I will be uploading selected photos showing what I did. I network

I don't even have time to write this journal ... Real life has hit me with a lot to do and get money for it - finally - a good thing! At first I feared the worst would happen. The season starts here in South Beach Florida at xmas and normally lasts till Memorial Weekend ... but it never started. January and February were dead, worse than any month last year. Plus the city had changed the ordinance for artisans really screwing me out of getting a good location for the first quarter of 09. Photoshoots vanished from Ocean Drive, I see none anywhere along Ocean Drive or on the beach. Photographers and agencies are going broke, models become res

After a few months of debating with myself if I should subscribe I had an evening to myself, drank several Steel Reserve 211, and in a drunken stupor I managed to hit subscribe, enter my Paypal password, and sign my life away ... The next morning I read my emails and realized what I had done ... at least better than waking up to a person next to you in bed and you don't recognize it  or know its name ... My inner debate was fierce, the cons always won over the pros. Let me list them: 1. The economy is horrible. My artisan sales are down to 40%, freelance photography doesn't exist anymore. Normally I see daily photoshoots here in South Beac