So I walked back into my dA account, blew off a bit of dust and shooed the stray cats away that conquered the place in the meantime and I am all set to be back. I recently fulfilled a childhood dream of mine and bought myself an SLR camera. I'm still kind of worried that it was a huge amount of dough I could have spent a lot better, like in buying food for example - but for now the euphoria dominates.
I took a couple hundred pictures over the last days (I have all the time I need for that, now that I'm unemployed) and I think I am getting a lot better at photography. Slowly the pictures turn out the way I imagined them when I hit the button,