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Journal Entry: Thu Jul 3, 2008, 9:26 AM
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It's Resources and Stock week this week, and at this occasion, I thought of providing a little gift myself:

The first 25 people responding to this journal can have a choice of one of my exclusive stock packs for free!

Have a look at them here [link] , and if you like them... be quick! :D

Offer stands till Sunday 6th of July - 12 pm European time (6pm EST)

Ready... GO!

Steppeland

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So, what is this Resources and Stock week all about?

Here's just some links where you can read and learn more:

Week 18 - Resources and Stock
* Welcome to stock week [link]
* Dress a Fella Contest [link]
* Stock and resource Challenge [link]
* ABC's [link]
* Are you Shiny and new [link]
* Make the best of your resources [link]
* Stock Categories [link]
* Resources week: Interview - jelloween [link]

I'll update this as I find more interesting stuff!
off to read and chat myself!

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This is an Unrestricted Stock Account - Check My Terms of Use [link]

You are also welcome to check my Unrestricted Stock folder on my main account here :iconsteppeland:

Other Unrestricted Stock
Info and links: [link]

Permission I give :iconrafiki-monkeyclub: *Rafiki-MonkeyClub permission to use any and all of my "Safari-collection" wildlife photographs for the club's account, and to upload them, if wished, to the club's gallery.

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My Stock Folders – overview and content [link]

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CLUBS

:new: New Club: :iconcolour-me-happy: *Colour-Me-Happy For all the photographers who love colourful photography :D :new:

:iconrafiki-monkeyclub:
Feature coming up: WOLF - WOLVES
I will be doing a new feature for the club by July 19 about Wolves. You can suggest and enter your own favourites for the feature through the thumbsshare forum here [link]

I am a happy member of:

:iconrafiki-monkeyclub: *** :icontreesclub: *** :icontreeswithcharacter: *** :iconnaturpics-club: ***
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CONTESTS

>>> :iconcreatebyweek: Create by Week
>>> :iconcastock: *CAStock A Special Place Contest [link]
>>> :icongracies-stock: =Gracies-Stock "Once Upon A Nightmare" OR "Once Upon A Fairytale" [link]
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THANKS

to :icontammara: for making this gorgeous stamp for me [link]
Since I don't have a subscription, it won't show up in my own journal, but I will love to see it show up in the journals of my friends :D - thank you so much, Tam!

  • Mood: Joy

+ 2000 pageviews - YAY

Journal Entry: Tue Jun 24, 2008, 5:37 AM
Update - half an hour later
OMG - it's done already!! Impossible :faint:
When I posted about the kiriban, we were at 1882 something,... I thought it would still take a few days. And half an hour later, I found a note in my mailbox that someone caught the exact 2000pageviews :wow: :w00t:
Marvellous people, I love it! :heart::clap:
The more people come and visit, to enjoy and use my stock, the more I like making and uploading more!
Thank you all so much for your support and friendship! Up to the 3000!!! :hug: :blowkiss:

Update Jun 24, 2008
2000 kiriban coming up! :D

Yes, well indeed, this way it goes even faster, isn't it :giggle: ... : The 2000th pageview for this account isn't that far ahead anymore :) - so, keep an eye on it if you like to win one of my exclusive stock packs :dance:
The one who catches the exact 2000th pageview can make a choice of two stock packs (see here [link] ) - The three who catch a pageview between 1995 and 2005 - and are closest, can make a choice of one of my exclusive stock packs. Just post the screenshot in your scraps, and send me a note ;)

Update Jun 23, 2008
omg - a DD - yay

:omg: a DD for Modern Art Lake View [link] :w00t: What a nice surprise!! And so totally unexpected.
Not only comes this DD within just a little more than 3 months after I started this stock account :faint: ... it is also given to a deviation I would have least expected it from... I've even hesitated whether I should upload it at all.
I can see though that it is chosen, not so much for what it is, but for what it can become in the hands of talented artists :D
Thank you so much to :iconhanratty-stock: ^Hanratty-Stock, not only for the DD and for seeing the potential of this picture, but also for the help I received when setting up this account - by note, and through your helpful tutorials! :D
And thank you, all my visitors and friends, for your support and friendship, and for using my stock! it's a pleasure and a joy to belong to this community :D :heart:

Journal entry June 26
Even more stock material coming up


Sure, I am working hard, but I still have loads of pics to upload... more than I can actually cope with :giggle:

You can expect in the coming days and weeks:

:bulletgreen: many more zoo - pics, with among others a few gorgeous series about courting giraffes, zebra's, waterfall, and kangaroos with young - Ooh, and I almost forgot... A variety of 'little dragons' too :D

:bulletgreen: lots of 'Abundant May' nature photographs that didn't make it further than their preparation-folder yet :giggle:

:bulletgreen: In the 'this is Holland collection' - many more photographs from Weesp, with old-holland houses, windmills and more... :dance:

:bulletgreen: Also made in Weesp, but I will upload them separately... a series of Great Crested Grebe, carrying it's young on it's back... :D

:bulletgreen: A set of Utrecht city pics, with among others a middle ages cloister gallery with herb garden.

:bulletgreen: And I definitely also want to start uploading some of my Indian Temple photographs some time soon ...

I probably will switch from the one to the other, to have some variety myself too :giggle:

Don't forget to also check my main gallery...
I've got an unrestricted stock folder their too [link] ! ;)

Steppeland
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This is an Unrestricted Stock Account - Check My Terms of Use [link]

You are also welcome to check my Unrestricted Stock folder on my main account here :iconsteppeland:

Other Unrestricted Stock
Info and links: [link]

Permission I give :iconrafiki-monkeyclub: *Rafiki-MonkeyClub permission to use any and all of my "Safari-collection" wildlife photographs for the club's account, and to upload them, if wished, to the club's gallery.

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List of my Stock Materials and Upload History: [link]

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CLUBS

:new: New Club: :iconcolour-me-happy: *Colour-Me-Happy For all the photographers who love colourful photography :D :new:

:iconrafiki-monkeyclub:
Feature coming up: WOLF - WOLVES
I will be doing a new feature for the club by July 19 about Wolves. You can suggest and enter your own favourites for the feature through the thumbsshare forum here [link]

I am a happy member of:

:iconrafiki-monkeyclub: *** :icontreesclub: *** :icontreeswithcharacter: *** :iconnaturpics-club: ***
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CONTESTS

>>> :iconcreatebyweek: Create by Week
>>> :iconcastock: *CAStock A Special Place Contest [link]
>>> :icongracies-stock: =Gracies-Stock "Once Upon A Nightmare" OR "Once Upon A Fairytale" [link]
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THANKS

and to :icontammara: for making this gorgeous stamp for me [link]
Since I don't have a subscription, it won't show up in my own journal, but I will love to see it show up in the journals of my friends :D - thank you so much, Tam!

  • Mood: Joy

GIRAFFES ... Show me your favourites

Journal Entry: Thu Jun 19, 2008, 1:51 AM
I am working on a feature on Giraffes for the :Rafiki-monkeyclub: by coming weekend.
If you want me to feature your favourites (own work or work from others), just send me a note with up to 3 thumbs, or post them in the thumbshareforum here [link]

Previous journal - June 11, 2008
Orchids in Frog Land


Oh, I must admit that I really had a blast yesterday when I discovered that the little grassland at the Reed Corner, where I photographed the King Cups [link] and the Reeds [link] earlier this year, now had turned into a real orchids paradise... There are certainly 2, and perhaps 3 different species, and I will do some effort still to determine them, but I just couldn't wait to already upload this little series in lovely purple and dark pink colours...
Hope you enjoy!

Edited: Orchid species
One species certainly is the Western Marsh Orchid (Rietorchis)- Dactylorhiza majalis praetermissa [link] and possibly also a hybrid.
I think there is Heath Spotted-orchid (Gevlekte Orchis [link] ) among them too, but am not sure.
Any orchid specialist among my watchers or visitors :giggle: ?


Poll "What series would you like first?" still open
You can still let me know if you have any preference for subjects I could upload first to this account - see here: [link]

In the meantime, you can expect more nature pics from our local area here - and also... :
since we are having a dA meeting with a few Dutch (and Flemish ;) ) photographers in Artis zoo coming Friday... : lots of zoo-pics coming up! :D - Looking forward to that! :dance:

Steppeland

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This is an Unrestricted Stock Account - Check My Terms of Use [link]

You are also welcome to check my Unrestricted Stock folder on my main account here :iconsteppeland:

Other Unrestricted Stock
Info and links: [link]

Permission I give :iconrafiki-monkeyclub: *Rafiki-MonkeyClub permission to use any and all of my "Safari-collection" wildlife photographs for the club's account, and to upload them, if wished, to the club's gallery.

_________________________

List of my Stock Materials and Upload History: [link]

____________________________________________________________

CLUBS

:iconrafiki-monkeyclub: *** :icontreesclub: *** :icontreeswithcharacter: *** :iconnaturpics-club: ***
____________________________________________________________

CONTESTS

>>> :iconcreatebyweek: Create by Week
>>> :iconcastock: *CAStock A Special Place Contest [link]
>>> :icongracies-stock: =Gracies-Stock "Once Upon A Nightmare" OR "Once Upon A Fairytale" [link]
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Poll - what series would you like first?

Journal Entry: Wed Jun 4, 2008, 2:51 AM
OK, so while I will continue photographing on my (more or less daily) walks, and will continue to have loads of new photographs to submit, I also hope to continue scanning and uploading some of my older pics from travels and holidays. And since I do not have really big preference in which ones I would like to process first, I could as well ask you what series you would be most interested in...
I had a quick look through my collection, and here are some of the choices:

:bulletpurple: a :bulletpurple: Indonesia Temples (Borobudur, Pranbanam, ++)

:bulletpurple: b :bulletpurple: Indonesia Nature - landscapes - people

:bulletpurple: c :bulletpurple: Prague (Czech Republic) - Cultural Historical City pics

:bulletpurple: d :bulletpurple: Tirol (Austria) - mountain, nature and culture pics

:bulletpurple: e :bulletpurple: Butterflies (pics made in the Butterflygarden in Kenya)

:bulletpurple: f :bulletpurple: East Africa - People and landscapes

:bulletpurple: g :bulletpurple: East Africa - Safari pics

:bulletpurple: h :bulletpurple: India - People, culture and landscape


They all will get their turn, eventually, but if there are any subjects you're particularly interested in, do let me know - I'll start with the ones most asked for! :D

Oh, just reply in a comment in this journal, to let me know. Of course you can choose more than one! ;)

Steppeland

  • Mood: Joy

Exclusive Stockpacks to win...!

Journal Entry: Sun Jun 1, 2008, 9:38 AM
:rose: :rose: :rose:

Update:
Edited: 3000 pageviews passed! :D Thank you everyone! :hug:


My 3000 pageview is coming up at my main account :iconsteppeland: ~steppeland - and whoever catches the screenshot - or close enough to it, makes chance to win one or two of my exclusive stock packs! Rules in my journal here: ~steppeland
:dance: Keep an eye on those pagecounts! :w00t: - I wanna be able to share some of those stockpacks!
So, make that screenshot!! :clap:
:rose: :rose: :rose:

Journal Entry May 30, 2008 : Catching up :)

Yes, you will have noticed, I've been submitting quite some new photographs lately, since I am trying to catch up with all the pics that are still waiting for processing and uploading, and to make space on my harddisk for new ones :D ...

I uploaded the last 'Early Spring' - pics, I think :omg: - and just started the 'Abundant May' collection.

No further announcements, since I truly don't know yet what themes will come into my hands first, but you can count on it... more to come! :D

I may well give you a choice as to what to upload first soon... So keep an eye on this journal! :)

Steppeland

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This is an Unrestricted Stock Account - Check My Terms of Use [link]

You are also welcome to check my Unrestricted Stock folder on my main account here :iconsteppeland:

Other Unrestricted Stock
Info and links: [link]

Permission I give :iconrafiki-monkeyclub: *Rafiki-MonkeyClub permission to use any and all of my "Safari-collection" wildlife photographs for the club's account, and to upload them, if wished, to the club's gallery.

_________________________

List of my Stock Materials and Upload History: [link]

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CONTESTS
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>>> :iconcreatebyweek: Create by Week
>>> :iconcastock: *CAStock A Special Place Contest [link]
>>> :icongracies-stock: =Gracies-Stock "Once Upon A Nightmare" OR "Once Upon A Fairytale" [link]
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  • Mood: Joy