ok... how about this... The main point of the search is to find hidden gems...images and artists that just seem to get overlooked in the mass of members and images.... Believe it or not, there have been over 1000 new members to Renderosity since 1/29/03....most of those don't have a gallery...yet :) There are approx 210,000 images at Renderosity.... As ladynimue's thread of yesterday brought out...there are only a handfull of the 134,000 Renderosity members that are ACTIVILY participating in the Poser forum...I would assume that those are the folks that get their galleries gazed upon the most. So...anyone that would like to participate, we have to find a way to find those hidden images from the great mass... images that hit your soul...give you a creative spark...are just plain good :) I'm not an art critic by any stretch of the imagination, but there are some images that I see that just plainly blow my socks off..some that just hit me a certain way....and they have no commments or votes or anything else...they get overlooked..... Now...I tried a couple of ways today to search the galleries, and I think the best way is to do a "VIEW RANDOM" selection on the gallery page. All the images are listed but I guess in random order...so I will see different images at the beginning than someone else.... Then, considering this is the Poser forum...start scanning until you find one that has Poser on it, and check it out, plus the artists gallery....you could keep notes so you don't go there a second time to save some repetition... Anyway, if something strikes your soul....post the link in the new thread that will be formed...perhaps give a few words as to why this image touched you in some way.... Does this sound too complicated? Is there a better way to do this?

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