Quote from LR8DAZE: 'Well, I feel that the POPULARITY of digital cameras has made "THE WORLD" in general... Snapshot happy! I think that many people DO use their cams for mostly family stuff, fun and whatnot! While there's nothing wrong with this, it has diminished or overshadowed the more creative side of Photography!' I believe more folks are taking pictures in general. Most will never even know 'rosity is here or even care. For instace, a recently uploaded galleyr image of the back of my wife was questioned at work, when I brought it up. "Why didn't you show her face" was the question. I said that it was not a shapshot...more arty. That is how I explained it. And I said, "people have backs of the head, too." Still, dead silence to this answer. The common image is generally pets, family, all shapshots. Why there is not more surrealism I don't know. You among others, Tedz, are able to pull it off well. I went through a period of "purity" when I felt alot of digital manipulation was not my stuff to do..wanting the "pure image" which is never just born pure when corrected from the original for color, contrast, etc. I would love to see more surrealistic images. To pull it off without alot of digital manipulation is trying and likely beyond the availability of props and other resources needed as well as the time to think it out when doing the image. I have a few surreal images on my gallery but don't look for that. These are buried deeply in the vault of my beginnings on the gallery..when I believed that kind of image is just fine and I did it better then than I did a snapshot. Now, I would love to do some good and respectable images in this genre..takes thinking and situation to pull of well. BYW..when a rat falls? Something surreal here, bro! Yikes!