Visitors

Elegant Steam (www.elegantsteam.com) has now been on the net for 5 weeks and in that time it has received over 4000 visitors. Amazing!!! When I first started it I thought that there would be a small interest but the sheer number of visitors is rather astounding. The site is non commercial butI have to admit that I have wondered that if I produced colour prints, say, in A3 size, what would be the reaction ? I have to say at this point that I am not thinking of going commercial. My illustrations are really for my own enjoyment and if someone likes them as well, that's great.

Have you ever had the aggravation of waiting for something to happen and it doesn't? I'm at that stage at the moment. Living in Southern Spain with a wife and two siamese cats means that any books I need have to be sent for from UK (sometime USA). Usually they arrive in a week but, right now, I'm waiting for two books on Pullman cars in order to finish an illustration of a 6PUL composite diner. And I'm still waiting !!

Today I added a Google translator to a few pages on the site. I tried it out in preview and it seemed to work OK when translating into Spanish. I just that it will do the same when translating into other languages. We'll see.