User blog comment:Ralok/Alienology/@comment-160529-20120618213003/@comment-95561-20120618233207

Sounds great. I know how the whole "taking photographs" things is, though—Check out the images on the following pages:

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Thranx

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Vroon

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Hjort

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Skandar

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Ghayrog

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Liimen

Every last one of those I had to personally create. I believed I used my mother's office job for their scanner (I haven't owned one at home since 1999 and this was well before I had my own office job) for those, though they could just as easily have been taken with my camera (The Majipoor ones all look like photographs to me). I am quite certain those are not the only ones I've had to create myself, but those are prime examples from books I own. I actually have to do it again with Dinosaur Planet eventually, and convert our Dinosaur Planet page into a disambiguation page... eugh, so much work.

I wish you luck on this all, hehe.

On a side note, you mentioned wishing you had children—I'm curious, how old are you (if you don't mind my asking, of course)? I typically assume our contributors are in their high school years for some reason, although I, definitely, am not. I'm intrigued that someone on here may actually be closer to my age, lol.