Holy buckets its been 6 months!

Sorry I left you hanging, I clearly shouldn't be a professional blogger. I do have a lot to say, but generally its personal so its not pasted on the interwebs! :) as for photographs, well I have actually taken a few since my last post!

i saw my cousins twins for the first time this summer! They were absolutly adorable! Kendra and Kiley. Kendra is in the blue and Kiley in the white.

I have seen so many fantastic photo manipulations and/or graphic design work that I am falling even more and more in love with it. I wish I could do it and I'm definitely motived to try to find some more tutorials to learn techniques. My problem is putting these techniques to use and being able to create an amazing piece of art using my own ideas. I also have this thing where I don't like to use other people's stock to create work, i like to be able to say those are all of my photographs. However, that probably will rarely be possible depending on the type of work I'm trying to create. For example, I love messing around with eye shots and I've seen some fantastic artwork but I wish I had more of my own photographs to manipulate instead of using someone's stock. Not sure if that makes sense but guess I'm more proud of my work when its truly my own.

I did create this piece, which was fun to do! I think it turned out really pretty. Please keep in mind that all of my photographs and manipulations are copy righted and are not to be used without my permission. Also, all of the stock credits are linked on my Deviant Art account.
Please link me any photoshop tutorials you think i might enjoy!
-Sam