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Thanks Graeme, nearly lost it mate, thank God for Valium. 😂

Yeah they are beautiful mate, four weeks now and boy can they eat 🙄😃. They are on solids which helps, putting on heaps of weight now, wife has to watch they don't over do it. One breeder described Labradors as "stomachs with a mouth" 😂😂, and I think he's right, they have already started.

I have instructions, don't post any with me in them (wife), okay dear . I put a couple in with daddy Max, he's big, and he's beautiful and has the best temperament, and so does Maggie, so they'll be the best puppies anyone could adopt. The fourth pic is Mum making sure her pups are safe. I feel for her right now, but the pups can't have her milk, they have the runs, so NO milk, and she is really upset, she wants to be with them. They are just beautiful now, the first two weeks was shear hell but we got through it, and when you get to this stage, you tend to forget how bad it was - well almost

Sure Tom, posting them now. Thanks for the interest

Really nice work John, I like them a lot.

Hi John, I have really enjoyed our "ride", and I think quite a few others have as well. Although not a lot of comments, I noticed you/we have had 577 views, so nice to see we did have interested viewers, but who didn't see the need to comment, so there was some interest there. Hey, I'm no different, I don't comment on all the pictures posted on the forum. Time is my enemy now, my day starts at about six thirty and I'm pretty much done by about one p.m. the afternoon I have to rest, thanks to how Covid has left me. So I have to try and squeeze in as much as I can in that time frame, I just mention this so you know why I go missing for periods. I'm actually quite new to digital art, I spent most of my initial entry in sketching, then became interested in digital art, bought Painter and a Wacom tablet and the long journey started - BIG learning curve - hooked! 🙂

Great images Ikbenik, good coverage of an interesting place Don

Not everyone's cup of tea I guess John. It did one thing for me if nothing else, If I have time, which is short for me, I'm going to try and sort out all my old images into some sort of order, AND I might just dabble a little in Painter 🙂 my hand cramps are a problem, so "little" is the operative word. Just for my own satisfaction.

It's been a bit of fun Rodger, and actually gave me a look into my past, lots of images I had forgotten I hadin my search for my old Painter work. I have one that I will post in a new thread of my daughter and her husband on one of her missions to Africa I think it was - it has to me, great subject matter - tells a story. Stay tuned.

😂😂 no way, safe there.

This is all I have found today, but not much time, and I got a bit lost reminiscing with some of the old pics I haven't seen in years. This image of Mia was from a associate shutter bug if I remember correctly Anthony Thorton. I really liked it, and asked if I could mess with it. Say hello to Mia

Thanks John appreciate your kind comment. Hair takes a fair bit of work and rework to get it right. Actually you're right on the money with Anna, she is a Melbourne girl, I nicked the photo from a friend who met her at a wedding I think it was. In days of old, we used to swap images, before Painter. In those days it was strictly photography, I used to rove the streets of Melbourne taking what i thought at the time, "interesting subjects" both in B&W and colour. I had a huge collection of night time shots of the "night people" fossicking in rubbish bins, sleeping in doorways and the like. Unfortunately I lost ALL of them and many others when a storm hit Ipswich, they were stored under the house that got flooded, lost all except a few my wife took of me finishing the Melbourne "Big M" marathon, but they were damaged and not worth keeping. MY Nikon mysteriously disappeared during our move to Brisbane, the carton also had a lot of images in it. I replaced it with a Canon D7. Last year my wife suggested I sell it as it was just collecting dust now, I agreed, reluctantly, and that turned into a disaster as the guy that bought it, turned out to be a scammer and I never got a cent for it, $5000 down the drain with the lenses. Anyway enough waffle. I'll see wat else I can dig up in the next few days, I am enjoying swapping images with you and our chats. 🙂

And Happy Easter to you and your family. Had a bit of time today, and found some of my old art, nothing worth posting mainly sketches, a lot unfinished, I had a bad habit of doing that. 🙄 With Painter, I got into a "nah that's crap" mode a lot, it's easy to get like that when you're messing around with digital paint.

Anna Came across this looking for others

Thank you Iain, and hopefully more to come. 🙂 Don

Some nice work there John, Subject matter is very important, it has to tell a story. I particularly like the second painting. Even with the right software, as you would be aware, its not just a matter of sitting down and slapping some (digital) paint on a canvas. I have some, if I can find them, and given time I will, that have taken me hours to complete, simply because most people doing this sort of art are never happy with the result and do them over and over to get the right finish (?) to their art. I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to call mine "art", but I try. I've found that the more work I have to put into a painting, the more satisfaction I get when it's completed, providing of course, I'm happy with the final result. 🙂 Don

Here's one from the master Jeremy Sutton. I don't have enough time left in my life to get this good or even close

Nice one Carlos, like the reflection on the water. Don

Magic set Carlos. 🙂 Don

Oh yes, this is a top shot Iain, like it a lot Don

Great collection Mike, like every one of them. Don

Sorry John, there is a communication problem here "so we can work out what dosh he will end up with" He will finish up with "0". My missus is a tight fisted old bag 🤑 when it comes to money and her puppies. 🤥

Okay I have the answer! I have had a message advising me that I am offline, which is garbage, regardless, MSFS takes that on board and after a number times decides enough is enough and switches off my "online function" in my data, hence no Market place. The fix I discovered is, go to General >> Data >> toggle online function and switch it off. Apply and Save, then go back and turn it on again, apply and save. "Voila" Market Place is restored. 🙂 Now John I will be able to spend up big with the money my wife gets from the sale of the pups. 😄 Yeah right, I'm dreaming, if I get my hands on one dollar of that......... Guess I might have to sell the Ferrari to get a new plane 😄😆😂

Hmmmm, I've been out and just got home. I'll fire up the sim and see what I get. thanks mate

Just window shopping John, look and dream 🙂 but hey you are so right