I feel soemtimes it is a personal attack too. But you must realise that there are a great many of us that spend many hours working on our pictures and projects and we all hope that we can get in the hot 20 sometime it would be an honor to us. We spend our time honing our skills hoping that we can make an image worthy of such an honor. Most of us don't make it or rarely make it. Then there is someone who puts our art that most of us can put together with little effort on our part and we all can see how it is done there is no mystry. (ie how did you do that?) These simple pictures do not offend us we all have made simple pictures before. What is so offensive is that this artist regualrly dominates the hot 20 an honor most of us covet because we think it would be an award for our hard work. This artist makes things we could all do simply and easily in a few minutes of our time. This artist receives nothing but the most flowery praise. While we may toil over an image and someone will point out a small flaw and we will agree and try better next time. If we do the same to them they would be up in arms and release a tirade that would make a sailor cover his ears. If they were among the striving who occupy most of the galleries they would never be under any sort of criticism. I don't like attacking someone I just want to find a solution we can all work with. BTW Drac I'll do an interview.

The wit of a misplaced ex-patriot.
I cheated on my metaphysics exam by looking into the soul of the person next to me.