Heavily Postworked- Does it still resemble a photo? Then yes it belongs in the Photography gallery. Your image doesn't look anything like what you started with? Then you need to find another gallery. Photo manipulations- Once again, does it still resemble a photo? If it does then it belongs in photography, if it doesn't then find another home for it! stock photos- Absolutely NOT! Tubes??? hehehe! If you downloaded a tube from a site, meaning it isn't yours, you didn't create it, then it doesn't belong here in Photography. 3D elements- like Bryce, Poser & Fractals etc. Hehehe, I think RR has fractal, Bryce and Poser galleries here don't they? If you used any of these 3d elements then upload it there please. I am pretty much a purist too! But I am not going to tell you that you can't postwork... I mean come on even in a darkroom you do postwork... But in all honesty if your work looks nothing like the image or images you started with, then maybe it is time to think of posting it elsewhere. I can see adjusting contrast, sharpening, cropping, cloning gremlins, merging two or more images (that you shot), using filters for coloring softening etc., adding a border or creating a collage. Basically I guess what I am saying is that if I can do it with film and a darkroom it should be permissable to do in the photo gallery. Oh yeah and I did want to remind you all that it wouldn't really matter what gallery you uploaded your work to, because the ebot will still go out telling your fans you have uploaded. OK now I am going to address the "new genre" suggestion... I will go you one better, seeing as this gallery is so big, maybe the time has come for it to have it's own web site. Personally I have always detested playing second fiddle to a computer program anyway. As a photographer I really don't care to view anything that isn't photography. I would even be willing to pay to be a member of such a site, as I do at UF. Food for thought. Brenda :)