Hey there, I'm not certain who if anyone still reads these but I suppose I'm sort of back from my unexpected hiatus from dART. As I've mentioned earlier I have been in Fort McMurray, Alberta for the past 2 months working for an oil company. I'm pretty happy about my job I think. I won't talk much about it because that's not the reason I'm on dA. However I will say the city here is... okay but I find sadly there is much to be desired here. I had a weird idea before I arrived that being up here I'd see things like my trip to Jasper or Banff. I imagined finding a nice clean lake and practice swimming again in a temperate rain forest. It's not that it's polluted here or anything, but simply I'm stuck in the middle of a suburb when at home and it's hard to go anywhere without a car. I also find myself with much less time than I expected. I wake up much earlier than I'm used to everyday to get to work. I work normal 7:30 to 4:30 hours but getting to and from work sometimes takes 3 hours altogether with the bad traffic. As a result I haven't done nearly as much photography as I'd like.

In another note, I'm sure you (the reader) already know about the earthquake in China. I realized about a week after it happened that 2 years ago I went very close to the epicenter of the quake on vacation. I took a lot of photos of the things there but haven't gotten around to posting it. It's weird to think things will be totally different now after the earthquake. I hope to show you guys how it may have used to look sometime when I find sometime and good frames to post.