What if I spend 2 hours making a fractal and then because i'm fickle I decide to post-work it in photoshop. I spend 1 hour filtering it and such before i'm finally happy with it. Now this image looks nothing like a fractal anymore, but I have spent twice the amount of time creating the fractal than I have doing the post-work. In my eyes this is a fractal image because the majority of my time was spent making the fractal...Though to other people this now looks like a mixed medium image... If I post this image to the fractal gallery then am I in danger of being told it doesn't belong here? Even though I am the only person who really knows just how much fractal work went into this image... I think there is a large grey area here that is impossible to police. I think we just have to accept that some images we don't think belong here are going to be posted. The only one who knows for sure where something belongs is the artist who created it. unfortunately, some will post here instead of other galleries because they know they will get more comments in this gallery. I've done this myself in the past. I also post to other galleries occassionally. I posted one image a couple of months ago that up until a few days ago had zero comments on it, I actually learned a lot from that. As MidDayCrisis I posted images to the Bryce gallery that incorporated fractals, some were well received, others not. Art isn't defined by it's gallery, it's defined by whether or not it is any damn good...I live for comments like "I don't usually look at fractals, but this one caught my eye...". If a fractal image crosses over into the 'mainstream' and attracts people that don't normally bother looking at them, then it's a success in my eyes... I would rather have one comment like that, than any number of ego strokes. My tuppence worth... Matt.