ok, after posting your latest image a peer comes by and drops a friendly comment about your work. a couple of days later you run into this persons gallery and, being a friendly person, you leave a couple of friendly words too. nice. i'm sure that you agree when i say that this discription covers some 95% of gallery-talk. i do not say, that this kind of communication is bad or wrong. what i say is that i am not longing for it, because this soup is a bit too thin for my taste. it reminds me of the addon-material on dvd's where some 99% are filled with actors and director praising each other. (yawn!) something funny happened to me - or better: unexpected... in this thread i invited rainfeather for a bit of constructive criticism. unfortunately this person did not answer this invitation. but, luckily, someone else did. she wrote: '99% of the feedback I get in my gallery is positive and as you say, it isn't particularly helpful, even if it does tend to stoke the ego... ', which covers my words...well, not that this comes as a surprise;) you know what the really dang good thing about it is? she asks me, a stranger without gallery, store or freebies, nothing but a big mouth, for my opinion about her work. believe me... T H I S is the kind of compliment that 'feeds' me!:b_cool: