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I'm leaving deviantART forever, to work elsewhere. Here's why, from my website, Brilliant Photography by Richard X. Thripp:
It's been nice knowing everyone, and I thank you for all the support. You can comment (on this entry or my art), but I won't read nor respond. Join me here if you want to comment or see what I'm photographing.
Yesterday I was contemplating what's been holding me back in my photography and online publishing of my photography, and I've decided it's maintaining my deviantart.com gallery. Since I started my own website at richardxthripp.thripp.com in December, I've continued to post photos to deviantART, because of my many followers there. Unfortunately, this kind of multi-casting derails too much of my time. I post each photo as prints for sale at deviantART, such as Bubble in the Sea, and that takes fifteen minutes because of their tedious interface for cropping and presentation (no one buys them). The other inconvenience is making keyword lists and linking between photos on each site (which I do manually). While I could continue to post photos to deviantART without these frills, the root of the issue is having to go to two places when I should be putting all my efforts here, my home on the Internet forever.
So, I'm breaking it off. I'm never going back to deviantART again. This is a huge step forward. I won't be hassling myself to publicate my photos, and I'll be focusing my efforts in one direction instead of splitting them in two. I've been at deviantART for two and a half years, and have had 116,000 views for my artwork. But if I'm every going to become solvent here, that won't cut it. My last photo at deviantART was Night Meets Day. The end.
It's been nice knowing everyone, and I thank you for all the support. You can comment (on this entry or my art), but I won't read nor respond. Join me here if you want to comment or see what I'm photographing.
Jan. 2014 Update
Hello, once again it's been almost a year since I did anything here. I am glad to report I am graduating in May 2014 with a B.S. in Psychology from University of Central Florida. I have enjoyed my studies a lot, though they have also been quite time-consuming.
I posted 2 photos and updated my deviant ID. Hopefully I will be posting photos more often!
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Thank You
Thank you to everyone who has used my photos over the past few years! Lately I have been busy working on my B.S. in Psychology, but am going to do some photography over the summer of 2013.
August 2011
I am going to start posting some new photos here more often. I uploaded 4 today.
March 2011
I'm going to start cross-posting my photos from my blog here again, because deviantART has still kept up my work from years ago and I want to get my photography out to a wider audience. I might even start writing poetry. :)
If you have some recommendations for future subjects or still life, feel free to comment!
© 2008 - 2023 richardxthripp
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No!!!!!
*cries in despair*
You were always a good friend!
I'll make sure to check out your website sometime.
=]
I'll miss you!
*cries in despair*
You were always a good friend!
I'll make sure to check out your website sometime.
=]
I'll miss you!