It's been more than two years since I took something of a leap forward and bought myself a Canon Powershot SD1000, with which I think I must have taken more than 10,000 pictures. After that, about a year later, in Grand Junction, I bought myself an SD780 after my SD1000 failed to open its lens at an event I would not stand not to record. To this day, between those two cameras, and a few others on the way, I have taken more than 24,000 photos. Some of these, naturally, were consecutives, shot directly one after another for long periods of time. However, I doubt I've done more than five in my lifetime, the largest of which was exactly 819 pictures. Doubtless the greatest reason for the large count of images is the simple fact that I have, in more than two years of CONSTANT photography, deleted few or NO images. Why? First, I can never be sure how clearly my camera is showing my images. On a number of occasions, this was proven obvious to me, a picture appearing mediocre on the camera, yet crisp, clear, and beautiful on the computer. Who knows why. Also, I've doubtless included a couple thousand of my siblings' photos. Over time, they've learned to use mine less, and Mommy's more...hopefully that'll stay that way. I wish I could call this huge mosaic only my work, but there's some of my siblings' all around. This mosaic was compiled using Andreamosaic at a whopping 8000x6000 (48 MP) over numerous hours, and overlayed with the original image at something like 20% opacity. The contrast/brightness was probably altered to some degree at one or another point. Scaled down to 2000x1500 for general internet viewing. This is really fantastic for me, to be honest. I've always wanted to do a photomosaic, and putting every single one of my pictures into it was always the way I imagined it. I chose this picture almost entirely for the colors in it...it's simply one of the most beautiful pictures I've ever taken, and I simply love the concept so much that I haven't tried to replicate it again, for fear of totally marring the very idea. Contact me by whatever means you have if you want a higher-quality version (probably no bigger than 12 MPs, even for friends/family). Thanks to those who have brought me to this point, specifically my grandfather and grandmother, my parents, a certain Cookie Pirate, and numerous others who have brought me to this point in my life, so that I could so enjoy the wonder that is photography. Most of all, I really have to thank God. There truly aren't words to express how critical he was in the whole scheme of my life. (unimportant note, after that mass of text...1000th upload) !Noah!

I hope you like my video! It's the first one I ever did and my point and shoot camera is not the greatest for videos. Thank you everyone for your sweet comments on my photos over the past year and even before I started this 52 Week project. I'm also celebrating 8 weeks without antibiotics! Yahoo! Hopefully my Lyme Disease is gone, gone, gone! I would never have kept up with flickr for as long as I have if it wasn't for all you! You are terrific friends and if I could make a wish it would be to meet you in person (oops)! Hugs to everyone!! xoxo (What a fun surprise to find out my video made it to Explore #397....just made it!)