So... Here in Columbia the weather has turned bitter cold. We dropped some 50-60 degrees within a few hours, so going out to take pictures is a bit daunting.

I'm really excited about this deviantART thing. I have made some really wonderful friends already and have gotten ideas of the type of photography I want to do and how to improve what I have been doing.

I'm here to learn and really do appreciate all the praise and criticism, keep it coming!

I really want to find a way to use photography to take ordinary things and make them appear extraordinary. Or even better, take ugly things and make them beautiful. I guess it's all about lighting, angles and saturation; and there's Photoshop.

I haven't really touched Photoshop so much but seeing what some of my comrades are doing... it looks to be an inviting form of expression.

I'm going to go through my catalog of old pictures and find some cool ones to put up, maybe Photoshop them into something quite different than where they started. This is all so exciting for me, if you have any tips please send them my way!

-justin