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The Gliding Pause

I have been working on these two images for a couple of weeks now and - finally - it seems like - I have arrived at creating two prints I am satisfied with... I can simply look at them instead of carefully examining them in search of "what else needs to be tweaked one way or another", instead of feeling an urge to touch up here and there, or - better yet - to burn everything to the ground and to start all over from scratch. In all honesty I don't think that either Bluefeather or Junior care to be around me when I am working: I would drag them over, show them two or three prints and ask them which one of the prints they prefer. They would stare at the prints in silence and finally announce that the prints in question look exactly the same or - maybe - maybe - there is this very subtle difference "in that far left corner" and then they brace themselves for my lecture as to what is different and how much it is different and that between two prints usually there is at least-an hour-of-sitting-in-front-of-the-monitor difference... In all honesty, I wouldn't like to be around myself either when I am working... God bless them for their patience and understanding... Will update the shop in a few minutes and be ready to move on... ... Oh, how much I love the feeling of emptiness, inner nothing-ness that reminds me of the gliding pause between two breast strokes - one motion/project has been completed, the next one hasn't started yet...