Cereus - I respect your opinion, but I disagree. This is a mixed media website - specifically it was built upon 3D graphics. In my opinion, it will never be, nor should it be, a "Photography" website. As such, you are going to get a wide spectrum of viewers in the gallery with a huge difference in background. Most will not be photographers and most will not know how to or even want to critique a photograph. They will comment on the things they like and simply not comment on the things they don't like or are indifferent to. I guess I don't see the advantage of critiquing in the gallery over posting the image to the forum and asking for a critique (which, by the way, I believe is not unique to this forum - but that most of the forums on Renderosity have come to work this way - ie. gallery comments are probably pretty positive across the board with critiques in the forums). I guess my questin is, why should I subject a weekend shooter who posts a picture of their cat to a couple paragraphs on Gestalt theory and dynamic composition when all they wanted was to simply show Fluffy and couldn't care less about DOF, fill light or cropping? As for it possibly becoming cumbersome. Lets be honest here, someone wants the rest of us to go through the work of critiquing thier photo and they can't be bothered with the time to post a message and ask for it ... well, that'd be pretty weak on their part. -=>Donald