The day before yesterday this gallery passed the mark of 100 000 pageviews. After nine years on DA this may not be such an extraordinary success, but I am still deeply impressed by so much positive attention. Ever so many of you have followed my photographic activities since I started here in 2005: 2086 people have been watching my gallery, and the 1515 pictures have been viewed 1 308 268 times. The picture most viewed has got more than 40 000 views. These numbers are quite unbelievable to me. Let me once again say that I am most grateful for them.   Alas there a quite a few friends who have left DA in the meantime, but to my great joy so ma

More than two years have passed since my last journal here on DA. I had transfered most of my photographic gallery work to Redbubble, and my DA galleries just idled on. But now I have made a new start in November 2013, 25 new submissions have been added since and next to various old friends who are fortunately still around, I have found a great number of new people whose work is fascinating. So quite a few new names have been added to my watchlist. Several of you have added my gallery to their list too. And to my great surprise and joy I was given the great present of a Premium Membership of 3 months by LUCILALEYLA.   So I am most grateful f

Many, many thanks for all your wonderfully encouraging reactions to my operation news of July. I once again appreciated it very much that so many of you showed so much caring and empathy. Please forgive me for not reacting any earlier, but though I have had a reasonable recovery and no serious problems in the meantime, but I have also had very little energy. So I just did not manage to get into the photographic mode yet again. We also enjoyed a short holiday at the Kiel Fjord in August, but there too I did take only very few pictures. Still I hope to become more active again in the weeks or months to come. So let us hope the best. With my ve