TYGRON

Do you know what that little checkbox  "Notify your watchers" is?
Ok.. I am sure this  situation will be familiar to you:
... Are there moments when you seem to realise that many of your DA friends seem to become more and more inactive?
... Or fhat they don't seem to care about your works, because they don't comment or fave them as often?
.... And many of them even get to delete their accounts on D. A??
    Do not worry, it is not their fault.... And certainly it is not because your works became bad enough not to deserve attention anymore... It is just a little checkbox that changed everything when it appeared
 I found this out myself, by chance, when I noticed that after a period when I was very busy and away from D. A, when I came back, all my friends seemed to have been away as well.... Because in the meantime, I had not received even a single notiffication that someone (anyone) posted anything new.... While I was expecting that in 2 years where I was missing, to receive hundreds of notiffications of new works posted by my friends,.. The surprise was that none of my friends seemed to have posted anything in 2 years... And when you see someone not posting anything new in years, you DO consider him inactive, right?
I was WRONG... after a period where all seemed dead on D. A,  i manually checked the profiles of some of my D. A friends, I had the surprise to find that they WERE active, because on their galleries I found many new submitted works,  but most of them without comments from other users or without many faves although they were beautiful works.. And I saw journals they wrote, complaining that people here don't seem to care too much anymore, and became inactive... And that thay were thinking of deleting the accound because the lack of activity
I started to comment on their works, many happily answered, glad the old-time-friends were back
... The surprise was that after talking with them again daily, they still didn't seem to notice my new works submitted here since I came back... And I knew they liked even my old-time bad works, from times when I was a complete novice... How could they not mind works now made with a professional camera, and with some science and magic behind??
THEN I made the breakthrough discovery:
HERE IT IS :
-----WHEN YOU SUBMIT A NEW DEVIATION on D. A,  there is the submission page, where you can choose a title, the Resolution, a cathegory,  submission folders etc.
 After you set all these, in order To submit it you press the  "SUBMIT NOW" button and you are done, right??
WRONG!!!
After submitting a new deviation GO TO  the "EDIT" button, and a page almost identical to the previous submission page is displayed... You can change title, resolution etc... All identical WITH ONE EXCEPTION
... - - - on the bottom-left of this page there is One more extra checkbox,  the "NOTIFY YOUR WATCHERS" checkbox.
Only NOW you can see it, and be sure to check it  for your watchers to be able to see that you posted this new deviation.  It DOES NOT APPEAR on the submission page when you submit a new creation, it only appears when you press on the EDIT button, and it  becomes available in the edit page only
Since this feature was introduced, watcers can't see that you posted new things anymore (while in the old version watchers received notiffication every time you posted something new as a standard..... Now they only know you posted something new if you manually edit every single one of your new works and get that "NOTIFY YOUR WATCHERS" checkbox marked... Only then they would receive notiffication and they would see it and give you comments and faves
P. S: I use desktop version only

When a sailor gets across equator for the first time, he receives his "Fiery baptism"
SO is the first 10.000 page views for a deviant artist

And...I think  that very deviant artist, with this occasion,  after thanking the friends and viewers for making this happen, should tell his / her  story of how he / she became a part of this magnifficent community
 And, here is my own part of the story :
Many years ago, maybe right back in 2004, a friend of mine happened to see me online on yahoo messenger (I usuallly used stealth status  and appeared offline most of the time ....but then I had forgotten     )  ...And  we started chatting a bit, then he sent me a link during the conversation, saying :
   ----"Look what a class-mate of mine is doing.... she makes fractals"
I opened the link.... I didn't know what fractals were ..... the link was from a fractal that she had made and submitted here on DeviantArt.....  the first time I  ever saw a fractal I was amazed of its beauty.... And I thought that deviantart was her personal website where she was submitting her fractals      
Then,,,, I saw the comments from other users... So , if there were other users around....I thought that Deviantart was a website for fractals....That's what it must have been, how hadn't I  thought of that ???       ))))))))
I didn't know for sure what to click to see more of the fractals  (that this site was all about, right ??     )))
 ANd then, by mistake, I clicked on a user's profile.... And then..... She had photos     ...
And I said...."
----" WOW... So you can sumbit photos here, as well ???? How wonderful can that be ???   "
And, little by little, I checked out that user's every single photo in the gallery, and said to myself.... that, one day.... I will want to become a deviant artist as well 
   3 years later, in 2007, I got my first  digital camera  (or so ))    ...A Sony Ericsson w810   YEEYYYY  .. with an astounding 2 MP camera  (How funny does that sound now ??      But then....  It was all I had....  And I fulfilled my dream, I finally become a deviant Artist  (or so I thought
 THen, I had to get my graduation from university, started to work, and my  presence here was scarce.... over work and creativity = NOT very good partners...I hardly had time to sleep, and the only time for photos was in the winter and summer holidays (very short ones, too )....ANd I thought, maybe I will change the way I work, and buy a proper camera....
   And then, almost 2 years ago....I got a  special gift for my birthday.... a Nikon D 3100 camera....MY PRECIOUS
THis year, after  colllecting some photos,  and with the  great advice from a very good friend, who is a professional photographer, I finally started to  create photos that are of ... acceptable qualiy  .... and I  resumed my presence here
  It took me 6 years for about 7000 pageviews..... and this year alone  the other 3000 page views    (the last 2000 page views were in the last 2 or 3 months , which , for me, is awesome 
 Thank you my wonderful friends,  you are  priceless    
     Plans for the future ?   Sure  .... I am just starting to learn the real secrets of photography,,,,  so I hope to make better ones in time .... and, yes, I am going to write a novel.... it will take me an awful lot of time for completion, but, when it will be ready.... it will change mentalities,   I promise that    (and....it's a secret....   

To be fair, I never was into journals...    In fact... why would I write something from inside my mind... when everyone could find it ?  The mystery had to be concealed at all times     My biggest secret was how I was thinking.... Nobody should have access to that.... .... And that also kept control of my memories.... All my life I just wished to remember only what was important for me, what gave something positive as memoryes,  or good times to  tell the others  how good things from the past were.... And everything that was no good, bad memoryes or just... average non-important,  to be forgotten for ever.... never  to be able to influence any more than a little page in my past...
  This is the fact....And why I didn't want to write journals..... and  why I also disliked the idea....As a kid I  considered myself a misunderstood genius  (LOL) ....SO a dose of mystery should have surrounded all that's related to me.... and , it was my wish... that if I sometime would become famous,  a mistery should surround me much more after  my  humble life ended..... and many questions  to be raised   for long time after my existence...  "controversial" to be my second name....
  A crazy kid's dream... But...That's just me 

I have written some journal entries in the past, here on Deviantart....They are the only journals I have ever written in my whole life..  and, in fact... they are not journals at all... just some stories.... some thoughts....   not some day's events

 NOW though....It's my first (and, maybe last     real journal entry....   Why  ?    It must then be something big...
Well....It is... For me....  And.... differently said, for me it's that big that I have to write it somewhere....  and have it there for good....   for both  "not-to-be-found-By-others"  and  "Always to be remembered where it is...by me"   
Yes... my  real-life friends... don't enjoy art very much,   and.... this is the reason not many will read this....  Even if they somehow find it , for me it's so important to have it and not to be forgotten.... as I would be able to share it with everyone 
Besides..If I write it on paper..I will certainly forget  where it is and, maybe , throw it away by mistake 
   So.... THis night,  when, as always, I had trouble sleeping, I had the biggest revelation in my life...
I always knew I was looking for something, that never had a name....  I knew that some people had something special for me,  and others... were no worth mentioning.... I knew that there are some who could instantly catch my attention...   my question was always ... "Why ?? "  ..
I am a  very-hard-to-be-impressed- kind of person....  there is so much that someone has to be, and to do, to catch my eye... I couldn't myself name all these .... but it's a lot of things that only together would, somehow... catch my eye.... tell me there is something worthy for the one to be looked  for more closely...
   That being said.... there are very few  special ones in my life....  not anyone could be all that I was "demanding" for me to be special....
 All my life I was craving to find such persons, because they  would have so many things to share, to be explored.... as my insatiable thirst of knowledge, and pleasure of admiring, .... to always have something new to find about them....
   Yet...the impossible happened... there were some ones even "more special"... they had nothing exactly to be said about... but caught my eye instantly.... impressed me so much, without  me knowing more than a very few things about them....  They were able to prove the impossible, to impress me that much as I would remain speechless...I   ...   I .... who always had answers for any question....I . who never remained silent... for more than a short times at best.... 
    Why were they so special ?  They looked like average people..... everyone around them found them not out-of -the-ordinary either.... But.... they had  some magic inside.... just a drop and a magic word....  and  they become everything that I would want to know at the time....  the bright light that blinds everything else
I didn't know what it was.....  Or its name... but that  magic thing they had.... was my desire in life...I couldn't even love somebody who didn't have it....
   I first started questioning :  --What it is
                                         --Why does that thing have so much (if any) influence on me....  to instantly block anything else I would be thinking.... and all my thinking to go on one direction....  nothing else could have such power over me.... on ME.... who always have an over-powerfull self-control.... I never (if ever) lose head.... I never become irrational.... I never lose temper...I never live the moment... I never go with the flow....    So... why  is there something that has the power to change that ??  If there is one, I want it..BADLY 
   Years have come and gone....  The answers remained hidden, and so the questions,  because such events were so rare.... as they were no concern for the "Real" life... like an astronomical event... never (or once) in your life-time....if You are lucky  )))

   THis night though....  The nameless has shown its face.....    Suddenly,  I found the answer I  had been looking for in years....
    Yes... It had a face... It was a beautiful one.... and it shined like a star..... And its name is... CREATIVITY
         
 YES....CREATIVITY..... is the thing I was looking for all my life... without knowing it,  without understanding why....I was craving for creativity and that.. is my light that guided all my life....  that showed  a path of light for my way... no matter how dark it was outside.....
Whoever has it, would have power over me  (sounds scary, too      .... But I bet the government won't find it any way   ))
If anyone wants to have any part at all in my life, and couldn't access it any other way.... the magic wand would probably do its number 

Is it true ?   Is it reality ??
It is the rich men's dream..... And, YES...I'v been there ....SWITZERLAND
And I lived the Swiss dream with my own eyes.....

I will be back with photos and new inspiration  from this fairy-tale land  

Dear friends, it's a lot of time since I last entered DA
Much much hard work more than 12 hours a day

And very few time even to sleep
BUT.. I had the  greatest holiday  EVER and it was a really delightful tme to spend there

I visited my sister who now lives in Dublin, Ireland  (thousands of miles far away from me)  and I really had 2 weeks of Irish lifestyle

I can't find my words to describe  what a great ountry Ireland is...
Love at first sight  for real

Not this killing heat I have home  (it was about 18-20 degrees not 40 LOL)
Always  fresh air because of the Atlantic Ocean's permanent  breese
... A very very Green and fresh grass al over
And.. the people really kind and fond of their lifestyle ,  so polite and so modest I vave never imagined it would be true...

I have visited a lot of great places, and.. a lot of time out  means a LOT of new photos to come out : D
I will come back with details of my trip there, everyone interested in visiting Ireland ask me for advice  because it's a great place to  be there