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Too much time on my hands last night, playing with OnOne’s Plug-In Suite. Too much like play, not enough like work, and that’s always dangerous. This is me in Douz, Tunisia, enjoying some downtime, a cup of mint tea and a shisha with my buddy, the Legendary H who also gets the photo credit. I was chillin’ too much to take a photograph. No, the image has nothing to do with the post. But there are advantages to being your own publisher – freedom to be as random as I like, for one. And yes, I felt a little self-conscious wearing a turban but after a couple days you ease into it and start thinking about buying a used camel.

Thanks so much for the comments left yesterday. Some very encouraging things said, some very good ideas left. I always get nervous doing this kind of thing because I know some well-meaning lunatic’s going to encourage me to do something like more videos that I know are a great idea but I also know that admitting that is going to mean getting off my butt and actually  doing it. Anyways, no promises, but I do file these ideas away and they’re helpful to me as I create content for you. So, thanks. But most of all thanks for being awesome.

Ok, so get to the giveaway already, right? You bet!

Wacom has ponied up a fantastic Inutous 4, and I am sharing the love with the international crowd with 3 signed copies of my new book, VisionMongers – which I willl ship to you -by ludicrously expensive airmail -  when I get my first box of them. So, here’s the winners…

Intuous 4 Tablet, Medium
Marcus Taylor – invisiblegreen.com
Signed Copies of VisionMongers
Gerdez from Romania (#347)
Gordon Cahill from Australia(#341)
Gerrard Williams from the UK (#47)

Congrats to the winners! Please email me through the contact button at the top of the blog and give me your full name and mailing address and we’ll get you your stuff as soon as Canada Post and other involved parties can do so.

I’m really excited about getting these prizes to you. The Wacom tablet is really a step up and putting a little time into getting used to it, and customizing it for your workflow, can be a huge time saver. Not to mention the gains in image editing ability. I wish I could have given one to everyone. If you don’t have a Wacom tablet, find someone who does and spend some time with it – you’ll be amazed you waited so long.

Thanks too for the readers that jumped to my aid yesterday when I put out the call for some beta-readers for the fourth in my series of eBooks – you significantly reduced the moron-factor on this book by catching some really dumb mistakes, and a few quirks about transparencies in InDesign not exporting to PDF perfectly. So HUGE thank you to you!

I’ll announce a new giveaway soon, but I have to space these things out. In the meantime, go shoot something you love.