PapaBlueMarlin, I just looked in your gallery and you do good work! I love your creatures and the laboratory is excellent work! Don't let this thread get you down. The hypocritical self-indulgence of the rant is the same prattle that says you are not a real painter unless you mix your paint from scratch with colors that you wrought from the earth with your own hands. Or that photography isn't art because you don't "make" anything. rolls eyes Art is in the eye of the artist, any other eyes that happen to enjoy what you do, that's just a bonus! My eyes were very happy in your gallery today! :-) Kiera