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If I had to choose one thing that has bothered me a fair bit lately then it has to be the whole favourites situation around this place. To think a deviation is only as good as how many favourites it has is complete and utter nonsense to me. I understand that some people may think "Well my art never gets that many favourites, so it can't be all that good", but it's not as simple as that. While some art that isn't that great indeed doesn't have that many favourites, consider the fact of how many deviations that aren't that good have many many favourites. So, are favourites really a good indication then of how good deviations are?

There are a good amount of deviations that are fantastic and deserve to bask in the glory of what is comments and favourites, but there are also a good amount of deviations that challenge high favourites of quality work, but in fact are mediocre at best. So what do you want? Do you want to have a gallery of deviations that whilst they don't have high favourites count, are consistent in quality or do you want a gallery that is filled with deviations smothered in favourites, yet your work leaves much to be desired? I for sure know what I'd like.  While some others that take centre stage with their mediocre work are under the illusion that they are good at what they do (and it's likely won't be improving any time soon), you have a chance to learn and improve your work if you need to and hopefully, get well deserved attention on your work. If not, don't worry about it. It's rather sad and screwed up (I myself sometimes get pissed off on behalf of others work that doesn't get much attention, while it goes elsewhere on unworthy pieces), but it's far greater to have good work and go under the radar then it is to be popular for work that needs to climb higher up the quality ladder

I feel like a bit of a parrot at the moment probably due to the fact that I wrote a news article for it and also did a journal over at birthdays as well, but if you don't know about the awesome Birthdays Stamp Contest we've got going on at the moment, you should totally check it out! Lots of Points to be won and hey, it's a stamp contest, so it should be easy as pie to quite a few of you!

We could totally do with as much pimping and faving of the article as possible so that we can find our perfect and first official stamp!

As it stands at the moment, DailyDeviants are on a hiatus while they wait for new team member applications to roll in. This is such a great project and has been around forever, so if you love finding and featuring great unknown artists (specifically photography) and think you're up to the task to work within a great team, check it out and send in an application! Come on, you'll get to work alongside me. How awesome is that?

A major thank you to all the comments and favourites I got on my recent DD Avera. I was so pleasantly surprised waking up that morning to see congratulations!

Also, in my ever so stupid ways, I decided to upload a new deviation on the very same day not thinking it would do all that well. Oh yeah, nice thinking there Zeta! It ended up being my most popular photo to date. Yes, even more than past DDs. Oh my God, I can't tell you how amazed I was by that guys. My first photo venturing into macro photography ends up getting a DD and my last photo ends up being the most popular. That to me is truly awesome because I was hesitant about it all at first. Seriously guys, thank you so very much for your constant support with my work lately. It's been blowing my mind in all sorts of ways!