I'm tired tonight. Long day and a bit too much Brandy while checking out the Gallery. I will of course read your link, I would like to babble a bit about your statement, "One of the things that I'm being taught, is that for every image or group of shots you take there must be a reason.... I can't say to my teacher, Oh I just thought it was pretty.... " Why the Hell not? Yes, I agree that photography is communication. I like to see or infer some story behind pictures -at least occasionally. But what happened to "Art for Art's sake?" I am sometimes upset by artistic accidents. See many of the Chicago public sculptures, or my entry last month in the Out of Focus Challenge. But visual art is mostly Right Brain stuff; no need for verbal explanations. IMO, anyway.