well thankyou for your feedback. I must add that my words here were not about feeling unaccepted ,unliked or inadequate as a photographer!!! I have no issues about my own work at all, i do it for the love of it!!! and for ME primarily!!! I am selling quantities of prints/teeshirts and greetings cards everyday from my online webshops. seemingly my angle and reasons here were not fully understood, I was trying to gauge what makes one person get more comments than others (obvious reasons aside) not get sympathy comments ( I would rather have no comments than that ) So in closing it is participation in the community that is the key! thankyou all for your feedback.