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On behalf of the team here at DPS Virtual HQ I’d like to wish you and yours a very happy Christmas (it’s just ticked over to Christmas day here in Australia).

It’s been an amazing year here at DPS and we’re incredibly grateful to you for reading, commenting, submitting posts, sharing us with your friends, subscribing and more.

This year saw DPS grow to a readership over over 3 million people a month and a over 350,000 subscribers. Our forum is coming up on 80,000 members, on Twitter we have over 20,000 followers, on Facebook there’s a loyal group of 5000+ fans and we’ve seen a lot of new features added to the site since our redesign.

Also a big development for us this year was the release of our very first product – our Portrait E-book – which is selling well and will help us to grow the site further in the year ahead. Expect another E-book in the new year with more on a variety of photography topics to follow later in the year.

It’s been a big year so over the next week we’ll have a slightly quieter than normal pace in terms of new tutorials – scaling it back to just a single new tutorial a week to give our writing team a break – but the forums will continue to crank as normal so stop by to share your holiday shots and tell us about your new photography gear!

Thanks to everyone for making DPS what it is – especially our writers, moderators and administrative team!

Happy Christmas!

PS: Sime (our Community Manager) sends his Christmas greetings here in the forum.

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