burningBernd

Hello dear friends and watchers!

The role founder of the group SkyLovers was handed over to me, after the former founder was looking for a replacement.

She trusted me with that, because I got my experience with running some smaller groups myself and being part of the staff of a larger group.

My bond to sky related art got me interested in that offer and I went for it.

So if you are interested in joining, check it out now!

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Hello deviants!

Lately I'm looking for some interesting groups here on dA.

So I'm wondering whether you'd have some suggestions for me.

Which groups do you like, which are interesting, which just show amazing and inspiring stuff.

Tell me in the comments below.

Thank you!

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Hello my friends,

some things have happened that kept me away from here for a few months.

First my horse died in May after a short illness. There was nothing I could do for him besides putting him down to save him from endless pain.

This hit me too hard to go on as usual after a while.

In June something unexpected positive happened. I wasn't looking, but somehow a nice person found a new horse that fit for me. She showed it to me and got me interested in riding him. Before we got back from the ride I knew that I want this horse and I bought him. This really got me back on my feet, but I spent all the time I could afford on the stables from that point on.

In August my DSLR accidentally fell into a lake, because my new camera vest still lacked a ring to secure the camera from falling.

After that I tried to dry it for more than a week, but after that it only worked for a few minutes. My camera really meant a lot to me, so I didn't know what to do. Originally I wanted to buy a new and better DSLR this year, but after buying myself an horse, I moved this idea to next year. But plans have to be changed again and again sometimes.

After photographing a while with cameras of friends, finally I got my new DSLR. A Canon EOS 5Ds. I also had to get a new lens as wide-angle, because the old cheap one doesn't fit onto the new camera.

Another problem occured shortly after my old camera got damaged. Someone at the stables who really helped me a lot learning new things and trusted me enough to let me work a bit with her horse and let me have her dog for a week while she was away was told bullshit by some other people about me and she lost all her trust in me after a short while, but didn't want to listen to me and now she doesn't talk to me for weeks already.
I'm trying to solve that.

Trying my new camera really drove me back to talk to you here again.

For a longer period of time there will be a chance of me submitting a mix of photos done with my old and my new camera, but this isn't what you should take care about, you should only take care about the things that are in the picture, because that's what the art is about, not the camera I use.

Here is a result of me trying the new one.

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Hello to whoever is out there!

Lately I had an idea how to bring my very first group back to life.
The FAVE-YOURSELF-club
 


Before I go on we need a little history lesson:
This group is older than the group system on deviantART. Back than these were deviants with "club" usually at the end of their names. You could contact them and ask them to reupload their work with a link to their original deviation.
A friend and I used this system for a club that wasn't about looking at artwork only. We wanted to make the artists think about their art first, instead of just having their deviation featured in our gallery.
So to make it to our gallery they had to find good reasons why they would their own deviation and we posted their reasons underneath the reuploaded deviation in our club.

Than the group system was added to dA and we converted the club to a group.
The big excitement we had at the beginning started to fall off soon, because to have the explanation why someone would fave their own deviation underneath the deviation we needed the deviant doing that by themselves.
Since most of them didn't do that or only wrote their reasons why they would fave themselves in a note to us, the group didn't work anymore.
We had a hard time to find a new way to make it work, but since we wanted to have the submissions added to the gallery we couldn't find a solution that would work.
After that the group fell into a deep sleep...



...until now!

Recently I finally had the idea to do the step we never wanted to do and abandon the gallery of this group and stop allowing submissions to it.
Instead I want to do journal features in this group where the reasons why people would fave their own deviation will be added underneath each deviation in the journal.
That way the group can do again what it always was about:
Making the artist think about their own artwork and share their thoughts with others who are interested.

For a while now I hear people complain that deviantART doesn't bring up that much conversation about art anymore.
So stop complaining and start talking!
Maybe with a little help of the FAVE-YOURSELF-club.


So, why am I talking to you about it here on my account?
Basically I need some more people that are interested in the whole theme. The group lost a lot of members and watchers due to its inactivity.
And I need someone or a few people that are interested in being featured in the group's first journal feature.
I want to use this upcoming journal to introduce the group's new way of existance to the members and watchers. Therefor I want to show one or more examples of how the features will look like, but I don't want to use only deviations from myself to do that.

So, it is your turn! Contact me and let's talk about it.
Now GO, YOURSELF























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Only two people answered on my request in a forum thread today.
Good for them, bad for the others.

So, many many thanks to these two wonderful ladies: Michelle-Fennel and MissSouls


Here it is! The feature:







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