Hello my fellow SG'ers!
This is a post to vent and get things off of my chest.
As many of you know I'm new to this site, all though I have wanted to be apart of SG for some time due to the many beautiful women and awesome people that are apart of this glorious place, so hence my becoming a member but there is more to this story then just "becoming" and trying enter myself into the foray that is photography.
I recently got out of a 4 year relationship with my girlfriend not 4 or 5 days ago. It has been an up and down roller coaster ride of emotions and when it first happened I didn't know what to do with myself. I had this new found sense of freedom and yet the things that I most wanted to do (Gaming in particular) didn't feel right, although I am crawling back into it a bit. I wanted to do more though, I wanted to go out into the world and be apart of it more. So I sat here for some time just trying to figure out something that I could do that might not only make me a stronger person but something I can dive into so that I could forget my heartache for a time and meet new people and just all around experience life again (I found that I really didn't have too many friends though). I dabbled into at first going to sites to just talk to people (okcupid, any free based meeting sites) with really no intention of dating so much as to just talk to people and it didn't really pan out the way I had hoped. A lot of those sites have people on them that will tell you they are glad to talk to new, genuine people but don't ever reply back to you messages which was disheartening. Finally, even though it had only been a couple of days, I outright felt stupid and thought that maybe I was fooling myself. I then remember SG and how much I wanted to be a member and have the opportunity to meet like minded people and to see what its like in the world of SG. My immediate response after joining was greatly positive and still is! I thought, If all these women and all these people can have the courage to do what they do maybe I can be apart of that. I had found my muse! and my foray into photography was born! I immediately went out and bought a nice camera (Sony a5000 16-50mm zoom with e-mount so i can get additional lenses in the future) and started my adventure! So in short I want to thank SG and its community thus far for giving me the outlet I needed and giving me inspiration to dive into something slightly scary yet incredibly promising! I am getting back into that side of me that I had thought I had lost for many years now and it feels great! I hope you all will join in and enjoy the roller-coaster ride and continue to look at my pictures, critique them, and just all together continue to welcome me into this community!
Thank you!
-Valserker