James Duke

^^ Glad you like them. I'm gonna attempt my first 'on the ground' view from the double ringed planet here soon. Just gotta find a tutorial on creating realistic landscapes first xD

My very first nebula. I like this one, yet I don't. The colors are great, but I think there aren't quite enough stars. I may fix it later. My very first attempt at a ringed planet. There's definitely a lot of improvement between this one and my most recent one.

Here are some new pictures I've been working on. I've been doing mostly space pics lately, mostly planets. They're not as easy to make as they look lol. This was my second attempt at doing rings. I like how it came out, but the rings bug me. It's also the first attempt at multiple moons. This is my most recent planet. It's my favorite so far. It's got only 2 moons, it's very similar to Earth, and its rings "glow", when really it's just light being reflected off the tiny dust and ice particles and water orbiting the planet. There are also larger chunks of rock and debris, most of which are small, but some can be as large as a small car. The atmosphere of the planet helps to reflect the light, which also gives the rings their blue color. It's similar to how the atmosphere here on Earth makes the sky look blue during the day. This one will likely have a bunch of facts to go with it later. This is my third attempt at a nebula. They're a lot of fun to make. There's no end to what they can look like and what colors they can be ^^ Even if they're not realistic colors, it's still fun to do. My second attempt at a nebula.

Thanks Hoss Yeah, a tablet is very handy. But my brat brother broke the pen, so until I get the money, I'm back to using pencil and paper XP At first I was really bad with using the tablet, so nothing I drew came out even half way decent. But after awhile, I started to get better and tada! Some of what you saw came out lol. The program I use is ancient. It's Photoshop Elements 2. It's not as good as the CS versions, but it's good enough to get the job done.

My blue budgie is male and roughly 6 months old. The green one is female and she's about 4 months old. Only ones laying any eggs as of right now, are the hens. Fresh eggs without all the drugs egg farmers give the hens. Imo, eggs from home taste better than store bought eggs.

Awww I'm sorry to hear about your loss I almost lost Kiwi last month due to an unsafe toy. He's back to normal now though, which I'm very glad about. Your budgie was very pretty. One of my iguanas I had, died from cancer. Iggy was 3 when he died. I was devastated when I lost him. As of right now, I no longer have any lizards, though when I get some extra spending money, I might get another iguana. If I can find a healthy young one. I have two budgies, a blue and green, two cockatiels, grey and pearl, an orange winged amazon (she's a feather chewer and I'm working on trying to get her to stop), 10 chickens, a peacock and a chinese pheasent and of course Kiwi. I love them all like they were my kids ^^ Even the chickens lol.

Here's a few more I've done. Johnny 5 from Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2 ^^ A photo manipulation I did. It's my first one actually lol. It's supposed to be a floating island above the clouds. The black dots are birds in the background. Kiwi again ^^ He's rubbing his beak on his perch here. A pic of Kiwi I drew. He wouldn't hold still, so he didn't make a great model for it XD

Here's some pics I've made and taken. All but one were done last year. This is my buddy, Kiwi. He's a 2 year old Nanday Conure. I swear this little guy can hold a conversation lol. His favorite things to say are "Hello", "Yo", "Yeah", "Okay", "Why?" and "Lexas" (that's one of our dogs). I love him to death and wouldn't trade him for the world ^.^ This is a pic of my character, Gabriel (Gabry for short). Back when I had my drawing tablet (up until last month XP), I did pics like this. This is another pic of my character, Gabry. I really like this one. This is a pic of a wasp I took last spring in my backyard. It's sitting on a closed peony.

Here's my tombstone

Coy looked up at Daisy with a big grin, then jumped up and hugged her.

James frowned at Luke. "I'm not a dork!"

James looked up at Daisy, watching her curiously. "How come she looks sad Unca Jesse?"

James laughed at that and got up. "You got that right, Uncle Jesse!"

James snickered. "You always get caught doing things your not supposed too."

Bo was watching the doorway, waiting for them to come back in. When Jesse walked in, he smiled.

Bo smiled back and nodded. "Sounds like a plan to me. And $5 says I'll catch the biggest fish and $10 says I'll catch the most."

"Sorry Uncle Jesse. Bo was yakking away, so I didn't get a chance to say anything." James said with a chuckle.

"Well cousin, its a little thing called love. From the looks of things, the love bug found ya and bit ya." Bo chuckled. "And here I always thought you were the smart one."

"Alright. That sounds good to me." Bo smiled.