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I have a freind that is a pretty good landscape photographer. One day I told him that a good photo was just a matter of luck. His answer was, "you make your own luck". After spending a few years trying to "get lucky" like he is, I had to conclude that he was right. You can't just cary a point and shoot instamatic camera around with you and expect to make good art. You have to plan for things like location, composition, time of day, lighting, wind and weather, depth of field, lense and filter selection. Even short lived events require this sort of thought. A sunset requires you to look at the whole composition. Otherwise it's just another sunset. After all of the planning there is the element of luck, which is why you snap a lot of pictures. Maybe, if you plan it right, out of a couple hundred shots you might find something that triggers an emotion. The rest just become vacation shots. I think that there are a lot of point and shoot fractals in the world. It's not just flames either, although I do look at Apophysis as the point and shoot software of fractals. I'm OK with point and shoot fractals. I understand why. Everyone is in this for different reasons. We are at different software skill levels. We have different interests and tastes. Most of us, like me, are still trying to figure out what good fractal art is. If you look at the attached link you will see my attitude about fractal art 7 or 8 years ago. I have provided the link just to say that I do understand.