[Zig]

Well, not yet, but to celebrate my momentary return, I must share some news with you:
I'll be getting married on June 21st next year(yippee!!)...I proposed to Karen(the lady in question) last week on the brow of a local hill. Mercifully, she said yes!
Here's the ring we slipped on her finger(all the way from Australia funnily enough, as I wanted to design it myself)!

[Paul.R.Lindqvist]

WOW!!
Congrats!!

Thats wonderful!

Any chances of seeing the happy couple to be ? .

Sweet ringt btw.

/Paul L.

[Banded Drake]

Congrats Zig ! nice ring , and im like Paul , i want to see the happy couple ..

..... Shawn

[Zig]

Awww many thanks both!
Oops, none as yet of us both together...I'll get on the case...!

[Toad]

Congrats Zig. Nice design for the ring too - very clean and true

[adam]

Congratulations!!!

Designing the ring yourself makes it that much more personal

[Wedding Shooter]

Well done Zig - I was just thinking about you and wondering how things were going with your new lady. Obviuosly - very well!

[wulinka]

Congratulations and all the best, beautiful ring!

nice shot, uli

[Zig]

Awww thank you all very much!
It was all a bit of a Godincidence all the way through really: if I'd not got ill last year, I'd never have visited this church in Malmesbury. Am now playing bass in the worship band; also, Karen and I never felt any attraction until God just got us together..we've since found that our respective churches had been praying for years that the "right person" with all the attributes we needed would come along one day.
Here's one taken with the Canon 50mm f1.8 on Sunday; I set the aperture at f.16 or so , that I could set the timer and run into the vague framing area without too many depth of fied problems. I blurred the background in the processing stage, overexposing the raw pic to retain a high-key feel. As it was a very contrasty day, I had to do 2 processes and combine them in Photomatix; I confess to a bit of dodging and use of the age-reducing diffuse glow!!

[NT73]

Good luck to you both. I won't wish you as many years as me and my wife have had. You would finish up like Methuselah's. You did say you were starting late.
But a long and prosperous and healthy relationship.

[Wedding Shooter]

Great to see you both - congratulations.

[shuttertalk]

Congrats Zig - now you'll have a maiden to share Castle Zig with!

Is she into photography and music too?

[Zig]

Bless yous!
Lovely thought Jules; I'll actually be repatriating to Malmesbury, some 18 miles away(but with a 10th century abbey and the River Avon)...
Musically, I hope she'll become "composed" about it....and photographically, well,..."developing"....!