Actually I don't mind critiques at all I have received some that I felt were well deserved and that have helped me to improve. And I'm aware of the no-no that placing a figure in the center often is. There are simply times that I believe that breaking "the rules" works for the intent of an image. An image should be taken as the whole of what it is - not a concept of what art "should" be. That said had his critique been simply the centering or the water that would have been either ignored or considered (although I'd already done the reflections and discarded them). It was the comments implying that a purely vertically (or horizontally) aimed image is wrong somehow. I shrugged it off as his opinion - until I began to read the gallery and saw that all the images uploaded in the same time frame that still had comments showing had a negative comment on them - some of them were just "historical" but not truly valid "critiques". That's when I became annoyed. Couldn't care less about his opinion on my work (and only one image at that) but when I see that he is apparantly just looking to stir the post with all the artists it makes his "critiques" far less valid.

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