I am finishing an experiment at the moment on the effects of telling people I posted something. I know most of you saw my latest Bryce post because it probably got triple the viewings it would have if I didn't say anything about it. The same thing with the Terragen image I posted this morning only on a smaller scale because the Terragen community is not as large. Both of those got Excellent rankings which surprised me. I threw together both of those images. I know part of it is I am getting better but that can't be the whole story. The Excellent ranking under my thumbnails looks cool but what really matters to me is the comments. I will get comments from people I never heard of that say it is an incredible piece of art but the ones I really listen to are the ones from names I see here. If a no-name says an image is awesome I don't care. Some people say that about every image. But if one of you people says it is a good image I know it is a good image. When I got my first vote I thought I was going to the Hot 20 because I hardly ever see images with only a vote or two. It seems like that first vote gets the ball rolling and everybody starts voting. Just to warn you, the last phase of my experiment is beginning and it might not be pretty.