After many years of trying to make it work, I've figured out that the skating story I wanted to do is just beyond my skills right now. I like the images I've done, but they are undeniably somewhat static, and the story depends on being able to depict motion in a way that just doesn't work in this medium. It would work in animation ... but the idea of doing thousands of images to depict a one minute segment with fluid motion does not thrill me. I could do it as an image series ... but I've done that once and promised myself to never do it again (see the long image in "The Vault"). So I've decided to finally just push out the images I've done, periodically do others -- I really do like doing them, even though they can't work the way I want -- and maybe someday I'll just write the story, since it will work with words much better than when using images alone. The first two images that were being held for the very end of that story are out now.