Monday, August 31, 2009 1 comment(s) / 2:37 PM Most people that do a lot of pictures in SL will come in and say 'I've always loved doing photography in SL.' So, I get to be the oddball and say, absolutely not! I've been in and out of SL for years and I only started taking pictures to manipulate them and play around since about a year and a half ago. I've learned a lot of that short amount of time, not nearly enough to where I would call myself an 'artist' or charge eye popping amounts of money for my work. Matter of fact, when I do pictures for people I tend to do them for free and if they want to toss an L my way, so be it. I don't mind doing the work without charging simply because I do enjoy it, its part of my entertainment and the 'escape' so to speak. On days like today, where I have far more going on in RL than I have time for, yet still want to play in psp a little bit I of course only abuse myself in my studio. Yes kiddos, I have a studio. Its become this massive room where Kerra and myself have tossed out all sorts of things to play with, in, on, poses scattered across the floor, and I am always looking for more to add to the mess. I found this prop a few weeks ago, it is the CnS 'The Pipe' and comes with a good handful of poses for both men and women. I tinkered around with it in my few spare minutes and then when the house was completely quiet (its kinda spooky, its never this quiet, I have a feeling its the calm before the storm, halp!) played around a bit. Nothing special or amazing today, just a couple of shots and I am not quite sure...which I like better. Simple stuff for a simple Monday. I hope everyone survived their Monday, the beginning of the week is always such a drag. Luckily for me I still get that second weekend starting tomorrow! Looking forward to a really good set of pictures for tomorrow, or at least that is the plan. As for tonight, its raiding, massive amounts of time with Sands when our RLs are quiet, and an evening filled with laughter. I hope everyone has the same because hey, you made it through Monday!! Dina's Duds (n stuff): CnS The Pipe Top: TorridWear Shorts: Fri.Day Hair: Fri.Day Skin: Belleza Labels: Avanista, Belleza, CnS, Fri.Day, Second Life, SL, TorridWear

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Grand Illusion, to me, is a great many things. A place to share my adventures within the grandest illusion I know, Second Life. Exploration, friends and loved ones and best of all, fashion and the addiction that is, shopping! I often spend most of my time in SL working these days, but I still find time for the fashion, for decorating and landscaping and the pure obsessive nature of it all.


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