~BarahirofLadros

I'm feeling rather down about deviantART, lately. At least since my most recent deviation - three weeks ago - has yet received no commentary whatsoever. That's the sort of thing that disappoints me. I know, I have no real advertising going for me. Simply word of mouth, or click of mouse leads people to my showcase of supposed art. But at the same time, I wish I could get some feedback from the few people who are "watching" me. The majority of my submissions have gone unnoticed by their watch, really.

So what have I been doing in order to ensure that I would get more feedback? Be more selective in my submissions, of course. If I throw out a lot of garbage, I might get noticed, but that's certainly not the kind of exposure I want. Setting up a name for myself, where I am simply mediocre at best, is not what I have in mind. So I've been trying to submit only those works that I thought were really something, or at least better than I've done in the past, and on top of that, I've tried to weed out some of the older submissions that really aren't all that great.

So, after all this, the fact that I'm still getting almost no feedback is not only startling and disturbing, but considerably disheartening. Am I really any good at this photography thing? How am I to know, if no one gives me the word? I rely on others' opinions to form a basis for my conclusions. That's how it works - or how it's supposed to work. Right now, I'm teetering on the edge of photographic depression, if that is a legitimate claim.

I'll try to put up some new photography in my gallery, but if I still lack feedback in every way that I do right now, then from now on, it's going to be all for myself, not for you, the "watchers".

I wonder... will anything come of this?