A "Jewel" of a posting Nathan but why do you make us wait months on end to enjoy your work?:):) The background work is so beautiful and as always your gems and jewels delight and mesmerize us!! Keep it up:)
My thanks to all who leave comments for my work and to those of you who like one enough to make it a favourite. To touch just one person that way makes each image worthwhile. . . . . . . . . .. . . . "The question is not what you look at, but what you see" ~ Marcel Proust . . . . The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." ~ Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
This essay is excellent and really helpful. I've been silently practicing this, and I'm becoming better at it! Enjoy yourself, work harder, and develop your impressiveness driving directions