Jett m'lad, despite my poetic(?) twit, I do feel your pain, if only intellectually. I deal mainly in ones and zeros, not art, as my fractured verse shows all too well. It has been said though that programming is more art than science so I posed myself a question. I write a wonderful program, powerful and elegant and post it somewhere with a screenshot. Someone writes code not half so good, but with a sexy interface and it gets downloaded 10 times more than mine. Would I feel that my talent was unappreciated, that flash won out over substance, that most are ignorant and the universe is tilted? In a word, yes! Would I then study the competition and go back and slap a fancy frontend on my app? Heck yes, if getting downloads was important to me. If I were merely content with the few nice comments I did get, then I wouldn't bother. I'm not suggesting that you should do more nudes. I am saying that if getting hits is something important to you then yes, that seems to be the key. If, however you make those nudes the best that you can produce, then perhaps the sting of public's taste will be somewhat eased by the knowledge that it is something you are proud of. Put two photo albums on your coffee table. One has pictures of your portly matron aunt cavorting nude in her garden. The other is filled with glossies of your gorgeous sister modeling the finest Paris couture. Bring them to me after a year, (whether your home is frequented by horny 14 year olds or elderly and pious members of the clergy), and I'll tell you which is which just by looking at the corners of the pages. This says nothing about the comparitive pulchritude of your female relatives. Hypothetically, of course, you might send me sister's phone number and failing that, the snaps of auntie would be appreciated as well. "Charlie, Starkist doesn't want tuna with good taste. They want tuna that tastes good." - Uncredited fish

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken