Well, since it's February 14th, I suppose I better wish everyone a Happy Valentines Day. =]

As you can probably tell (due to the snazzy journal), I recently got a subscription. I think it was a great investment, and recommend it to those who spend a fair amount of time on dA. Journal credit goes to +ipholio. You can get this journal style yourself by clicking 'Get This CSS' above.

It's about this time I wish I knew CSS myself so I could code myself a journal. :/

Here's the deal on the art front. Expect more photography more than anything else, because I need to prepare for my photography exam that's taking place soon, so I may end up posting a few preliminary pieces here.
As for the exam, I'm undecided on which topic to choose. There's 'ortraiture' (which would be something new to me, and a challenge), 'Detail' (which involves photographs depicting the natural landscape or 'Combining Human and Mechanical Forms' (quite a narrow topic, but allows for Photoshop magic).
There's some other choices, but I felt most strongly motivated by those ones. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Continuing with the photography theme, I've recently been learning about film developing and darkroom techniques, which has been nothing short of awesome. Pretty tricky (when you have to attatch the film to a reel without being able to see what you're doing :/), but really interesting and rewarding.

Went to the Bradford Media Museum for a film workshop yesterday, which was a right laugh. Our task was to go out and shoot an advert for the museum, and then return to the editing suite and chop and edit the footage using iMovie (and some snazzay iMacs) to create the final piece. I had a great time doing it, and I recommend the museum to anyone. It's an awesome building inside.

I've also been recently doing some SitePoint (now 99designs) competitions, so I may get round to doing some more of those.

College is taking up 90% of my time, what with the AS Levels, extra GCSE and my new degree module course (starting on Saturday). That's even less time to spend in PS. Darn it.

Anyway, that's it for now.

Hope you're all doing well, and thanks a lot for the 6000 pageviews, favourites, watches and such. It's all appreciated.

Sam

Oh, and here are some features for you from a great photographer named Rob. Be sure to check out his gallery --> He's a total babe.
...and a great help when it comes to photography.

I could feature many more, but are a select few for you all.