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long time ago ..

Sat Feb 21, 2009, 5:53 AM
.. I was an active member of this community. Some 8 months I left the place and never came back to post anything, just was here two or three times to check for updates and what happened to my account and other deviants.

Now I decided to make an update and give a comeback to deviantart. Many things have changed during the last months and there is so much to tell you.

My blog at [link] is continuously updated .. so normally I write one entry every week since november 2008 - maybe that's another reason for my absence from dA.

After my summer trip to Vienna in July 2008 I had some relaxed months and enjoyed the rest of the summer. My EOS 350D took it's own holiday for more than half a year and rested in the bag ;) .. and so did my two Olympus OMs. To be honest 2008 was not a photo year for me. After the summer trip I only did some long exposure shooting on the autumn fair (which turned out really nicely) and that was it for the rest of 2008. In October I celebrated my 27th birthday and started to became a driving instructor. Therefore i visited a course at the WIFI (special interest adult education) and made an exam at the federal state government. The exam took place on 10th of December and I made it without any problems.

Some weeks later I started to work in a driving school I was associated with before through my family. It's only beside my study, which is still my main activity, but it's a great job and money is really good :). Around christmas I held my first course and started to give driving lessons. So far my students do well and most thought I'm doing this job for some years .. a good feeling to get such response.

Beside I bought some new hardware before christmas, assembled a new computer by myself and finally was ready for new stuff. My old machine was close to breakdown, so it was the logical decision to invest in a new monster ;) .. and I'm fine with it so far. I also changed some things on my photo gear. First I sold the Sigma 10-20mm as it wasn't used very often and I never liked the results. In terms of photos, something great happened in 2009, but I'll tell you more on that later. University was goin good, got many very good marks and mostly did well at my seminars and still hope to finish my study until early 2010. So far it looks good. On poker I have to report some tournament wins in my favorit card casino and that I became a more or less successful cash game player, but actually think about quit with cash game, just stay with tournament poker and mostly play live. I prefer live action and just play online for fun. Still dreaming to work as a journalist for a poker magazine or somewhere in the media sector that deals with that game, but therefore I at least would have to move to Vienna or somewhere in Germany (like Hamburg or Cologne).

Now, some week ago, I was in Vienna again. Went there with Daniel and Bianca (he's one of my best friends and she's his girlfriend), this time by car. We went there for shopping and meeting friends. So I also met =Beachdair, ~Kirimaus and ~Schwachmaath again and visited many, many, many stores. We had a lot of fun and stayed from 9th to 12th February. On 10th we went to my favorite photo store (=Beachdair works there) and wanted to buy the Canon 35mm f2.0 lens. I also asked for some used stuff - which means I was looking for a new cam during the last weeks. Plans said 30D, 40D or maybe better - and I planed to get one until March or April .. but Lady Luck was good to me ;)

To my surprise there was a used Canon 30D looking like brandnew, no scratches, no dust, .. looks like the pre-owner used it as a back-up or left it in a showcase :D .. and it was more than low priced .. so no question - 10 minutes after I got it in hands, it already was my property. So I know own a 30D and to be honest photography got interesting again - started to shoot much more during the past two weeks. :) So I prepare you for new photos here on dA and of course more updates on my blog. I can't guarantee many posts here on my journal, but maybe I'll do from time to time again now.

For now, I hope this one was not too long and I still have some watchers noticing I'm back ;) .. new pictures will be added soon.

Best wishes,
Michael

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deviants I met so far
~geek7, ~zero-, =Beachdair, ~muzkmkr, ~Woofenbarken, ~Kirimaus, ~narulein, ~black-Syla, ~Askhari, =Gothic-Nyu, =tfprince, =NorthPole76, ~northwulf, ~Schwachmaath, ~0v3n, ~Isyia, `Staged, ~BlackCore-RaiseHell, ~radiohat, ~apixx, ~alife, ~Corvi, ~gaiakiyarae, ~once-keen, ~shizophrenik, ~mitcharts, ~g3ri, ~grindL, !kinderschokolade, ~zort, ~schmetterbaum, ~no-shorty, ~menalie, ~Asphates, ~olMelpomenelo

  • Mood: Optimism
  • Listening to: Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008
  • Reading: Every hand revealed (by Gus Hansen)
  • Watching: the curious case of benjamin button
  • Playing: poker (texas hold em & omaha)
  • Eating: mexican food (tortillas con carne y salsa)
  • Drinking: water, juice, coffee

off to vienna, new blog entry

Sun Jul 6, 2008, 10:55 AM
  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: rain outside my window
  • Reading: street maps
  • Watching: tranformers, ratatouille
  • Playing: with google earth
  • Eating: salad, barbecue
  • Drinking: water, juice, coffee
hi folks!

no updates lately, don't use deviantart so often - just checking my message center from time to time.

there's a new entry on my blog (or better said two) about my activities these days and what comes up during july. have a look at: invisiblefocus.wordpress.com/

tuesday morning I'm goin' to vienna, one week without any stress and problems - visiting friends and have fun .. just relax and enjoy life :) .. it's my first "longer" vacation since two years .. yeah!

so have a nice week!


featured artists after reviewing my message center:

*photoport and =pecchio

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I'm happy I met the following deviants so far:
=geek7, ~zero-, *Beachdair, ~muzkmkr, ~Woofenbarken, ~Kirimaus, ~narulein, ~black-Syla, ~Askhari, ~Gothic-Nyu, ~tfprince, =NorthPole76, ~northwulf, ~Schwachmaath, ~0v3n, ~Isyia, ^Staged, ~BlackCore-RaiseHell, ~radiohat, =apixx, ~alife, ~Corvi, ~gaiakiyarae, ~once-keen, ~shizophrenik, ~mitcharts, ~g3ri, ~grindL, !kinderschokolade, ~zort, ~schmetterbaum, ~no-shorty, ~menalie, ~Asphates, ~olMelpomenelo

visiting deviantart

Thu May 22, 2008, 2:41 AM
  • Mood: Neutral
  • Listening to: people
  • Reading: books
  • Watching: sky
  • Playing: with girls :D
  • Eating: fruits
  • Drinking: water
Today I cleared my message center. There were some 1,700 deviations and approx. 200 messages in it - I just looked through all deviations which were uploaded between january and now, everything else (beginning with deviations one year ago in may 2007 - lol - just me being lazy) was deleted without any look. I decided to choose this way, as i think no one i interested in comments on work that was posted some 6 or more months ago, .. ok you might be, but if I do so it would take me ages to go through and comments. So I'm sorry if your work was just erased from my message center without any notice. Anyways I'm not very active here ... deviantart is more and more history for me, .. I think about posting from time to time, but missing motivation .. and blogging got more interesting for me ... yeah you see what I mean ;) :)

So for the moment .. as always:

invisiblefocus.wordpress.com/

right now there's nothing special, have two rolls of apx and trix to develop, ... my digital eos got a little bit dusty lately ;) but I will take it out today so I gonna do some entry on the blog in the evening


featured artists after reviewing my message center:

*photoport and =pecchio

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I'm happy I met the following deviants so far:
=geek7, ~zero-, *Beachdair, ~muzkmkr, ~Woofenbarken, ~Kirimaus, ~narulein, ~black-Syla, ~Askhari, ~Gothic-Nyu, ~tfprince, =NorthPole76, ~northwulf, ~Schwachmaath, ~0v3n, ~Isyia, ^Staged, ~BlackCore-RaiseHell, ~radiohat, =apixx, ~alife, ~Corvi, ~gaiakiyarae, ~once-keen, ~shizophrenik, ~mitcharts, ~g3ri, ~grindL, !kinderschokolade, ~zort, ~schmetterbaum, ~no-shorty, ~menalie, ~Asphates, ~olMelpomenelo

-blah- new entry -blah-

Tue Feb 26, 2008, 3:28 AM
  • Mood: Happy
  • Listening to: street roar
  • Reading: photoblogs
  • Watching: national treasure - book of secrets
  • Playing: poker
  • Eating: salad
  • Drinking: beer, water, tequila
invisiblefocus.wordpress.com/

new entry at my blog, some news from the last days .. also about winning poker tournaments and getting a new cam


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I'm happy I met the following deviants so far:
=geek7, ~zero-, *Beachdair, ~muzkmkr, ~Woofenbarken, ~Kirimaus, ~narulein, ~black-Syla, ~Askhari, ~Gothic-Nyu, ~tfprince, =NorthPole76, ~northwulf, ~Schwachmaath, ~0v3n, ~Isyia, ^Staged, ~BlackCore-RaiseHell, ~radiohat, =apixx, ~alife, *Corvi, ~gaiakiyarae, ~once-keen, *shizophrenik, ~mitcharts, ~g3ri, ~grindL, !kinderschokolade, ~zort, ~schmetterbaum, ~no-shorty, ~menalie, ~Asphates, ~olMelpomenelo

Friends and Groups

:iconnarulein: :icongeek7: :iconkirimaus: :iconmenalie: :iconbeachdair: :iconnorthwulf: :iconzero-: :icon0v3n: :iconwoofenbarken: :iconmuzkmkr: :iconblack-syla: :icondr007: :iconnorthpole76: :iconalife: :iconcorvi: :iconsarahtier: :icondon-paolo: :icontfprince: :iconigy: :iconicarus-ica: :iconstaged: :icongothic-nyu:

blog moving

Fri Feb 22, 2008, 8:31 AM
  • Mood: Happy
  • Listening to: falco - emotional
  • Reading: photoblogs
  • Watching: national treasure - book of secrets
  • Playing: online poker
  • Eating: salad
  • Drinking: beer, water, tequila
I decided to move my blog to wordpress because of more comfortable editing and features. Also changed the blog name and style. So I hope to see you soon at

[link]


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I'm happy I met the following deviants so far:
=geek7, ~zero-, *Beachdair, ~muzkmkr, ~Woofenbarken, ~Kirimaus, ~narulein, ~black-Syla, ~Askhari, ~Gothic-Nyu, ~tfprince, =NorthPole76, ~northwulf, ~Schwachmaath, ~0v3n, ~Isyia, ^Staged, ~BlackCore-RaiseHell, ~radiohat, =apixx, ~alife, *Corvi, ~gaiakiyarae, ~once-keen, *shizophrenik, ~mitcharts, ~g3ri, ~grindL, !kinderschokolade, ~zort, ~schmetterbaum, ~no-shorty, ~menalie, ~Asphates, ~olMelpomenelo

Friends and Groups

:iconnarulein: :icongeek7: :iconkirimaus: :iconmenalie: :iconbeachdair: :iconnorthwulf: :iconzero-: :icon0v3n: :iconwoofenbarken: :iconmuzkmkr: :iconblack-syla: :icondr007: :iconnorthpole76: :iconalife: :iconcorvi: :iconsarahtier: :icondon-paolo: :icontfprince: :iconigy: :iconicarus-ica: :iconstaged: :icongothic-nyu:

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