Thanks for your response ricky...... No, I doubt if this persons intention was to see more brycian art and less poetry. no, he harbours an anti american sentiments and somehow feels like what happened on that day was well deserved or something to that effect. read this...... "On a political note, the word "terror" means "deep, intense fear". Thus, "fearists"? If you are afraid of humans, then you deserve whatever comes your way. A bit of brutal honesty in the face of American idiocy. The only true innocents are those who are powerless. " There was an underlying assumption in his post to the effect that I was an american expressing some kind of patriotic sentiment, which was not the case but what I considered rude in his post is........ "you want to write poetry and stuff, cool, but this is an art gallery, not a "Two Cubes and a Preset Sky" gallery." Two cubes and a present sky gallery, hahahah, now that sure sounds funny too cause afterall a bryce is a software with sky presets, cubes and squares and spheres and other 3d shapes that you could design in wings 3d or 3d max or maya. It is a hate within that describes a render like that. I would agree with you, it was not a hifi, heavily composed render of brycian merit. It does look like just 2 cubes but then two tall buildings which were cubical had to look that way had it been cylinderical i woulda taken a cylinderical object. Moreover, there was no political debate or string attached to what i had posted, it was just a human tragedy projected as such and an appeal for peace and a no to violence, a very deep thought coming from a deeply concerned humanist. Anyway, I stil respect his right to say what he likes. A few days back, in the photos forum there was thread about lack of critism to gallary posts. A new member was of the opinion that people were not being honest but were rather more polite in the gallarys. he was of the opinion that there should be higher level of critics than just cute remarks. This person is right to an extent I guess but to me, I don't want critical comments in the gallary. A gallary is not my workshop where u come and leave critics for improvement , its a work of art in display, feel nice about it, say so or else move on. I have a reason to feel this way...... In photos gallary specially, you find people who are semi pros and full pros coming up and saying..... hey, it lacks focus. there is too much exposure...... did you use the light meter?? A picture of a flower and they are like....... was it too windy that day?? you should try on a day when there is no wind. Now, for a person like me who just uses a digital cam and not a hifi manual setting camera, lot of technical details are unimportant. I find beauty in a blurr and i find beauty in a windy shake to a flower too. I view it as an art and they view it as a photo work and they go about a technical evaluation of it than an artistic evaluation. Despite all this failing of mine as a photographer, at one point of time i had 8 images in top 20 which made me so embarassed that I can't express it. So, I was not good technically but I was a viewers choice I guess. So, I do agree with many that the top 20 works in a diffrent fashion than most sites. Honestly some of my photos were good and needed to be there and many that went upto there, I was tempted to delete them, they were not good enough. Now, having reached the top 20 on several occassions and even feeling embarassed about it at times, I think it would not be fair on me, if someone left a rude remark on one of my post saying..... i dont think this should be in top 20, it lacks merit...... now thats rude towards me for something I was not responsible for. That is what happened with my friend. Peace out!! :O)) SNAKEY