Agata, Pre-Tom Gunia-ing

I'm doing a collaboration with my friend Tom Gunia for my friend Wesley's magazine nowherefastmagazine.blogspot.com. I had a new and interesting thing happen to me this roll around....Problems with my shutter. You can see at the top of the photos a black line.....that's my shutter leaf. There's a possibility this is all due to a too fast shutter speed while shooting with the flash, I really hope that's the case. Anyways, look forward to Tom's illustrations! Thanks Agata!