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Those of you that have been following my art account for a while now know more or less what happened, in brief, we were in the middle of packing our stuff to move back to Thailand when we discovered that we lost our 9 week old baby.

What was supposed to be a regular check-up turned into a moment of great pain, followed by a day spend with various doctors and a wide range of tests. This happened on Friday 20/02/2009 while we were supposed to be spending time packing some of our stuff, getting ready to move back from Hong Kong back to Thailand.

We then needed to schedule surgery for my wife to have the baby removed on Saturday 21/02, with our move taking place on Monday 23/02. On that same Saturday I had to spend about 2 hours worth of time discussing and negotiating my new job in Thailand.

Friends and family had to be notified but aside from that there was literally no time for us to realise what had happened as we had to spend Sunday making up for the two lost days of packing with the movers showing up Monday morning to pack all our furniture and those belongings we were having shipped rather than taking with us on the plane.

We arrived in Thailand Monday night and spend the rest of the week dealing with paperwork, sorting out visas, embassies, getting our internet back up and running, fighting with the shipping company etc. as well as finalising discussions around the new job. During that time it caught up with us and we both crashed, hard; emotionally and physically.

We're doing much better now and have made peace with what happened, we always knew the risk was there, but somehow you hope that you’ll be all right. Our home is as peaceful as ever and being here has had nothing but a positive impact on our frame of mind; the rest of our furniture is due to arrive sometime next week and I'm starting my new job tomorrow.

I’ve also finally taken up my camera again and have a bunch of pictures from parts of our garden that will go into my stock account *Ghost-Stock as well as some macro and semi-macro shots for my art account.

During this time, macro made more sense to me, the little things in life that remind you that overall, life is beautiful and all around you; waiting for you to see it once again.

Thanks all for the well wishes, the notes and the just being here.

Loads of hugs,



Ghost

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The manipulation line - gallery secrets revealed!
I had the pleasure of being featured in this wonderful news article by that explores the various ways of manipulation and photography. It explores by means of a overview on the difference between Photography and Photo-manipulation as defined by DeviantArt and the Artists that post there; well worth checking out.

Once again we are moving, this time back to Thailand (woohoo) and even though I'll miss Hong Kong I'm really looking forward to spending time in our house in Thailand again, having breakfast in my garden, waking up to the Sun each day , I'll get to drive my Jeep again as well ... can't wait

For those interested, this is the 15^th time that I move in my life and the 3^rd time moving countries (I've moved continents once from Europe to Asia).

This is however the first time bringing cats on a country move so that'll be an interesting experience, . Even though we aren't moving until 3 weeks from now there is loads to do in the mean time, aside from packing, friends to catch up with, a lot of meetings to attend and projects to finalise, getting ready for a new job in the process.

I won't be spending as much time online as I'd like to and may not be commenting much in the weeks to follow because of it. Once we're settled in again I'll be sure to catch up and will most certainly be sharing some gorgeous images from Thailand as well, I'll have to say goodbye to my beloved birds in Hong Kong though but will try to at least get one more visit in between now and the move.

So if you don't hear from me in the next couple of weeks, don't be alarmed and know that I'll be catching up soon.

Cheers,

Ghost

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The Fantasy - Chronology journal is only meant to be a place mat so here's the actual journal

High time for another:

Mood: Content

I've had a few notes and comments asking about my fantasy pieces and whether there is a story behind them. The short and simple answer is of course: yes

Unfortunately the story is A. way to long to post on dA, B. still being written, C. has been under construction for about 20 years, D. will never be published online. I haven't been writing it for 20 years but off and on have spend about 3.5 years on it thus far and it certainly always roams in the back of my mind.

So rather than present the story I thought it would be pointless / boring / annoying / useful to put up a journal in which I put each piece in the right chronological order (from past to present):

- The Omen

- Last of the Draconians

- Plain of Sorrows

- Heart of Fire

- Dark Encounters

- Dragon Reborn

- The Binding

- A Fool's Errant

Other pieces are under construction.

Cheers,


Ghost

Mood: Content

... when you're having fun.

Or when financial markets crash, new presidents are elected and turmoil rages through my beloved Thailand with an ex- prime minister in exile that believes he should be the countries emperor

Admittedly, I hadn't realised that I had been off the site for nearly two months. I've been kept extremely busy with all of the above and loads of people expecting updates, projections, statistics of all shapes and sizes and the likes. Projects being frozen, others moved up the ladder ... and the likes.

I've had hardly any time to go out on photo shoots but earlier in the week found myself with a few spare hours to kill in Shanghai so new work is - finally coming up.

I have about 4,500 deviations to go through (you guys have been busy) as well as 2,600 messages. I'll be going through all those in the next week or so and you can certainly expect a visit to your gallery in the next couple of days as I'm eager to see the amazing art this wonderful community has to offer

See you guys soon!

Cheers,


Ghost