Some new names have been showing up on the follower list in the last few days. To those of you who recently found me, welcome...feel free to hang out for a while. You can call me Shade.

If you need something to pass the time, you can always browse through my art here. As of now there are 49 pieces in the gallery. I'm especially proud of the Mixed Media section; most of my best work on NG is in there. I do fancy writing & text-based art sometimes...you can find it in Lettering/Calligraphy. If you want to know more about me apart from my creative work, read a few previous entries in my blog here. My interests involve history, finance & investing, geopolitics, & not taking life any more seriously than I have to.

Edit: With all that out of the way, here are some interesting pictures:

from my weather app, 0330 hrs

same but with IR mode layered on it, at 45%