"Which brings us to talent. The great intangible that no amount of schooling, no amount of plugins, no amount of $$$$$$$$ spent on content/application/whatever can provide. But here's the catch; no one has full blown talent. No one. Talent is like a tree; no matter =what=, you always start as a little nut in the dirt. I tripped over my writing talent quite by accident in high school. My worst subject was always engligh...mainly because it was always grammar, and for most real world situations, knowing how to split a participle just isn't all that important. But senior year, we were given a class long creative assignment; the old list of unrelated words to somehow work into something. A speech, short story, whatever. And the nut sprouted from the providing of a little bit of water and sunlight. But that tree of talent will only grow so long as it is given nourishment to grow...and faced with the storms of challenge to give it a reason to grow."  "Dale B"

I really, really; really agree with you here.  I personally started my "art career" at 5 lol, with crayons...(shhh i'll be 40 in april).  I drew snoopy and i was soo proud of myself.  I never stopped doing art, it just changed over the years.  Went from crayons to pencil to colored pencil....finally to acrylic paints.  Then I finally was able to get into to digital art, yup started that with pixel painting. 

I personally, don't see the problem with people using any medium they like.  As far as art goes, a picture my young children did i would put up against Van Gogh any day, because i like it, its special. I don't  like Van Gogh's art but that doesn't mean he's not an excellent artist.

I am new and the reason i stayed here is because i have met some really nice people.  For instance, if it weren't for a wonderful person here i probably never would have even made a human looking creature. She spent almost 12 hours online trying to help me.  Poser isnt that easy at least not for me.  I spend most of my time experimenting and every new picture seems to be teaching me a little more. 

As far as photography goes i find it to be its own artwork medium.  I have seen some beautiful photographs here and i find them to be just as good as anything else. 

Lol, im done now.