Imphenzia Digital Art

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Past few days / nights I've been working on a photo site at SmugMug. You can have a look at it here:

http://imphenzia.smugmug.com

Photography and digital art has been an interest of mine for some time, but making music and games has always taken priority. Now I've gathered enough images to launch a little gallery so feel free to drop by and maybe write some comments and give some thumbs up/down.

I have also started my new 'real life' job today as an 'Information Security Specialist' so I will have to put quite a lot of focus into settling into this new job.

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