Thanks people. These were all taken with my 1.3 megapixel digi, which I would really like to upgrade, but can't afford to at the moment...none the less, despite my reservations on the limitations of the camera, I am still trying to "push the edge of its envelope" to get interesting shots, so I appreciate the positive feedback I've been getting for this particular sequence of images. Basically, I take the original shots into photoshop, desaturate them and then adjust the levels & contrast until my personal artistic sensibilities tell me to stop! Some unsharp masking, cropping etc usually completes the process... :-)>