With my first journal entry I wish to thank everyone for the page count yesterday. My normal daily page view is in to 10 to 20 range, with 50 being a good day and a previous high of 120. Yesterday's total was 538 with 67 favs in 24 hours. This is by far the most activity for any single day's submissions and put me well over the 10,000 mark. I posted 6 shots from a session with Sarah ( [link] ) taken in April of 2007, and the response was phenomenal (at least for me) including one shot becoming my second most faved pic in less than 24 hrs. Being able to open these old jpegs in Camera RAW (thru Bridge) has opened a whole new realm of possibilities for my older files (more to come in the near future). CS4 has also amazed me with it's enhanced stitching abilities as exampled by todays submissions. Plus Bridge sorts and stacks the images for stitch and HDR with amazing intuition.

And speaking of new possibilities, my trusty old Canon 10D has served me well for several years, but 100,000+ clicks is beginning to show in its performance. A new Canon 5D MKII has finally arrived and I hope to give it a proper studio baptism as soon as I can get the models scheduled. Maybe the old 10D can get an IR conversion, we'll have to see. My only current problem is finding batteries for the 5D. Everyone is back ordered and shooting with one battery is kind of limiting.

Again thank you for all your support.