13 - Also, quickly run into the product forum for the gallery you have uploaded to and post a link. This will also a good 30 hits and maybe get the forum lawyers to actually look in the gallery once in a while. I confess. I have used the thumbnail trick. I've even rendered a full nude before (omg, it was terrible. no style, no substance. Didn't even use a decent texture or pose. I felt so, so, good when I saw the hits. It was terrible.) Oddly enough, the one image of mine which has the most hits is, well, utterly suspect. It's a small thumb (since for some strange reason we are not allowed regular images) meant to accompany a rather long poem. Apparently, it was posted during a period when the gallery counts were all messed up -- excessively inflated. Which makes me feel really bad. "thinning the forest" -- lol, I like that one a lot. I'm eventually going to completely revisit the slim gallery I have here and redo each of my images again to catch up with what I've learned since I first made them. As an exercise. This despite the fact that my best work thus far is not even featured here. And PBM -- that really is a good image. Title or no...

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)