Those silhouettes look pretty nice and realistic. Cool picture!

*glomp!* Hi, you! Thanks for liking it! I'm still very much a noob when it comes to doing photo-manipulations like this. :P Hey, did that oryx suit come out ok? You never told me if it did, or not. *hopes it did*

I'm still working on it :o
But my new deadline is the end of this week, so i hope to finish soon :P I'm not far from it... It's coming out fairly well, you'll see pics when i'm able to cover my entire body. :D
I still plan on mentioning you as well, since you did help, and were very nice about it too.

Nuuuuu... I was wondering why no AC pix of it. Rats. Well, I hope my help was even useful, since you had to alter the pattern... I look forward to seeing it!

wow that is amazing X3 very unique and interesting

Thank you! Wait till you guys see the fully-painted one I'm working on now... Heh. No silhouette this time, but a fully-seen dragon curled up on a rock...

Awsome dragon-cloud i see so many where iam ^_^

Yeah, I see them all over... Most of the time, I'm unlucky not to have a camera with me... :( KaniS lets me play with his tech-toys a lot, and things like these are the result. Heh.

Beautiful, my _niHan... simply beautiful.

*hugs you warmly and kisses, and hugs KaniS too, just 'cause*

So wonderful. :)

*huggles you because you're so sweet* Hi, my platinum! Thanks for liking my odd little attempts at digital arts... Working on a pretty, pretty dragon, now... *and hasn't forgotten your commission- she's working on that, too*

That is really close to where I live :)

You live around Joshua Tree National Park? Sweet! The rock formations are stellar- got a new pic in the half-way stage using one of the rock piles that sit all over that place.

There's a pair of dragons on the loose.

I'm afraid.

Don't worry, these ones are small- only about the size of a medium to large dog...

really awesome stuff! wow

Thanks, hon! I'm getting better- the next one is gonna be a fun one in full light...

*Glomps* Murra!

*giggles and wriggles in your maw...* Hey! No chewing, k? *grins and nuzzles you* Back in LA, me- rarely on the IM's...

*Noddles and nuzzles* Welcome back to the stats. :P And you need to do more of the IMs *noms lightly* >:P

*wriggles and giggles as you nom* Yah, got a weird sleeping schedule, too- not up beyond eleven PM, most days. I'll see about setting up an IM thingy here... I'm getting my two month long stay this time, too! Yay! No crap from the customs guys...

Weird sleep schedule? That's a NORMAL sleep schedule. :P

Well, it's weird for me! I'm usually up until two or three in the AM... *giggles*

*Chuckles and snuggles up with*

*drapes a wing over your back, happily snuggling next to you*

*Purrs and snuggles in under your wing*

beautiful photo and I the littl' dwagy ^^

Thanks, hon! There's two of them, actually, and both are rather fascinated by the cloud that looks like them.

*giggles* Cream...

Yup... Loves cream, me- the bovine secretion kind, not the other... Must be the fat in it- danged Innu ancestry makes me crave the fatty stuff... What can you say about a culture where whale and seal blubber is considered a delicacy? My French side where just as bad- over-fed goose-livers, and buttery sauces... Murrrr- I can hear my arteries hardening just thinking about it.

"Goose liver and fish eggs? Where's the goose? Where's the fish?"

I said nothin' about caviar, but yeah, that stuff is gooood... I'm not fond of the goose-liver, though. The way it's made is unbelievably cruel. I shocked KaniS the other day by telling him I was willing to go completely vegetarian. The way we raise our food-animals and the methods of slaughter are something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Horrible stuff. No more meat for me- I've hit disgust overload. So even those tasty fish-eggs are out.

I was quoting a line from Futurama where Zoidberg was trying to eat like a rich person. Elzar replied, "Hey, that's what the wealthy eat: the garbage parts of the animal." And Zoidberg said, "Bah, I ate garbage this morning and it was free."

*cackles* I think I remember that episode. And I did know what you meant... after I'd posted. Drat.

*Nibbles on* Silly dragoness. *HUG*

Hey, maybe I'm just gettin' old- my memory seems to be going. Either that, or I just don't bother recalling stuff from TV programs I hardly ever see, even though I like them...

Then what's my excuse for poor memory? Storing too many TV quotes?
:P
*Snuggles up with the older dragoness*

*giggles* that may well be! Too much useless stuff in yer buffer! With me, it's just my wee coal-burning brain is slow to start up in the morning, and there isn't much room in there, except for trivia, fabrics, plant species, semi-precious gems, and similarly odd things.

*Giggles and hugs on you*

*purrrrrs*

*Purrrrrs back*

*snickers* Buttery sauces...

Why do I get the impression someone has a dirty thing in mind for those buttery sauces? *giggles*

^.=.^ cuz I've ALWAYS got a dirty mind. *mrowls*

*chortles knowingly, waggling her furry eyebrows*

*bites her eyebrow*
What?!

*chuckles evilly* Yer cool...

^.=.^ I try.

*licks* <3

*tastes buttery and creamy..... giggle*

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Omg that's beautiful!

Thanks, hon! I like sunsets for all their colour, and adding the wee dragons in just seemed like a natural thing to do.

It looks amazing! The dragons look so real too! ^.=.^

I'm working on the realism- got a looong way to go, me, before I can consider my skills good in this medium. But thank you so much- I enjoyed making it.

Awesome! ^.=.^

I like how subtle the addition of the dragons is, very noncommittal as if the photographer was accostomed to seeing them and really interested in the clouds.

Awesome! That's exactly the kind of effect I was hoping for! "Just a nice, quiet landscape pic, nothing odd to be seen here..." I've always been fond of the candid style of photography used in magazines like National Geographic. I hope to be able to put together a body of fun fantasy-peices like this where the existence of the fantasy-element is incidental to the land-scape around them, as if the photographer just happened to catch a snap of one the fairies of the wood (a pair of just that kind of thing is in the works).

Nicely done!! Looks very realistic ^_^

Thank you, hon! I'm still working on the skills- still have a long way to go before I'm actually good at this.

but it still came out really well, especially with how new you are with using digital mediums. but this came out beautiful.

Awww, shucks, t'weren't nuthin' sister... *blushes happy you like her efforts*

*warmly smiles* I really do like the effort that you made ^_^

Thanks, hon... >^._.^<

you are most welcome ^_^

even though I'm not a dragon... this is simply beautiful...

V.

Awww, thanks, hon. You don't need to be a dragon to enjoy fantasy-fun like this. I like fox art, and horses, and raptors (both dinosaur and bird) and I'm none of those things. I lucked out on the landscape photo, though- beautiful sunset and really cool cloud...

I was FINALLY going through all my watches, and this pic was submitted the day my mate left for Iraq... and he's a dragon. Not only is it a great pic, but it now has some weird sentimental value to me... Hope you don't mind.

Awww, I don't mind in the slightest! I'm honoured, actually. I hope your mate comes back in one piece and still in possession of his soul- that war... *shudders* I'm glad you liked my piece, and if you have a sentimental attachment for it, that just icing for that cake.

Yeah, I hope so too. My last b/f had only just come back when I met him, and he was totally f***ed up. He'd scream in his sleep, and he's emotions would change in an instant. He wouldn't tell me much about what he'd gone through, but he did say that he had been held a prisoner for 3 months. Since his was the first Iraqi veteran I met at the time, I am quite worried. But I've heard from other soldiers that have just returned that it's getting a lot better. There are quite a few of them coming back who didn't see any battle while they were over there, and considering my mate is a computer geek, he spends most of the time inside. I sent this pic to him and he liked it. Thanks for understanding. :hug:

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is nothing to laugh at- I speak from experience. No, I'm not a soldier, but the illness can come about from other kinds of trauma, usually violent... So, yeah, I sympathize, definitely. It bothers me that it's taken so long for a stigmatized thing like "shell-shock" (the old name for it) to be recognized as a serious illness that can drive people to suicide or worse... I hope your friend is doing well, both the ex and your current friend in Iraq. As you said, computer geeks should be OK.

That has to be the best combination of photo and artistic talent i've ever seen

Aww, shucks... Thank you! It's one of my first attempts at photomanipulation. I hope to be able to do some really strange things with some of my photos... *grins* Just because it'll be so much fun.

For a first attempt that's really impressive, they blend in so perfectly.

Thnak you! I'd better watch it, I'm gonna get a swollen ego, if I'm not careful..

I should stop building you up, i don't want your ego to burst. Ego explosions make a terrible mess

Like zits from hell, those... Blooey! Ego-goo everywhere!

Ego goo LMAO!!

*giggle* It would be worse if it was an ego-gasm; "Hey! Yer ego just spooged on my ego!"

Ego spoo? That's would be awkward

*giggle* Indeed! I'll stop, now.

Very cool and well done! And I love Joshua Tree, such a pretty park. :)

Yeah, that place is surely awesome. Kani took me there for the first time last year and I love the photography opportunities I get there. Painting in a dragon was almost a given for this image, considering the cloud up there is natural and completely unaltered. Thanks for liking it!

Another great image...The would just goes better with Dragons! };=)

Yup! And this is what some of them just might be doing, too! *giggles* Just hanging around in the landscape, being in the way of the photographer who is just trying to get a good sunset piccy!

They just know they are photogenic }:=)

Indeed they are, the shameless little camera-hogs... Heh.