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[Pat]

Larry you have a real heart for the work we do here at OPR.  I love the enthusiasm and spirit you’ve shown while tackling your first photo – the makings of a great OPR volunteer.  You’ll be amazed how fast your skills will grow.  Welcome to the family.  

[corpusdei]

Why am I here?  I gotta say, when I started in on that very first test image, I was asking myself that same question, and I've been mulling it over since.  It can be frustrating, tiresome, at times it seems difficult to near downright impossible, and a week's worth of work for one picture can seem like an awful lot of effort for not a lot of return.  So why do it?  I'm doing this ... well, because I can, really.  It seems a simplistic answer, but that's the long and short of it. 

I'd like to say that it's because of the challenge, and always learning something new.  That's the reason I started fiddling with PS in the first place (and GIMP, and PSP, and Paint.NET and who knows how many others), putting in entries for photoshop contests on fark, and though I put out a lot of bleh (http://bit.ly/AEoSU1), I kept at it because I wanted to make things that were somewhat less bleh (http://bit.ly/zLjFNP).  That was the challenge.

This, though?  I'm doing this because I can.  I'm just a glorified amateur, and nowhere close to being in the league of some of the folks here, but I figure I still do a passable job of it (I hope - I'm still waiting on the QC folks to swoop down on me ).  But the point is - I can do it.  And more important, crucial in fact, this is an opportunity for me to take what skill I have and do more than head swaps and image gags - it's a chance to help, it's a chance to reach out, take someones hurt away and return some happiness in its place.  It's a chance to leave the world a little better than I found it, even if I'm only able to do it one picture at a time.

[pic-dr]

Why am I here?  I gotta say, when I started in on that very first test image, I was asking myself that same question, and I've been mulling it over since.  It can be frustrating, tiresome, at times it seems difficult to near downright impossible, and a week's worth of work for one picture can seem like an awful lot of effort for not a lot of return.  So why do it?  I'm doing this ... well, because I can, really.  It seems a simplistic answer, but that's the long and short of it. 

I'd like to say that it's because of the challenge, and always learning something new.  That's the reason I started fiddling with PS in the first place (and GIMP, and PSP, and Paint.NET and who knows how many others), putting in entries for photoshop contests on fark, and though I put out a lot of bleh (http://bit.ly/AEoSU1), I kept at it because I wanted to make things that were somewhat less bleh (http://bit.ly/zLjFNP).  That was the challenge.

This, though?  I'm doing this because I can.  I'm just a glorified amateur, and nowhere close to being in the league of some of the folks here, but I figure I still do a passable job of it (I hope - I'm still waiting on the QC folks to swoop down on me ).  But the point is - I can do it.  And more important, crucial in fact, this is an opportunity for me to take what skill I have and do more than head swaps and image gags - it's a chance to help, it's a chance to reach out, take someones hurt away and return some happiness in its place.  It's a chance to leave the world a little better than I found it, even if I'm only able to do it one picture at a time.

@Corpusdei

A great post, and a great attitude. What more could you ask for? 

And I did check out both of those pics, awesome! Especially the second one! 

[pic-dr]

Larry you have a real heart for the work we do here at OPR.  I love the enthusiasm and spirit you’ve shown while tackling your first photo – the makings of a great OPR volunteer.  You’ll be amazed how fast your skills will grow.  Welcome to the family.  

Thank you so much for the kind words and welcome Pat! I'm convinced with the guidance of the amazing people here I'll be fixin' pics left and right before long! 

It is a humbling pleasure to be a part of this community.