@fred255 serious photographer? That me lol Hey I post what I shoot. I got the good , the bad, and the ugle in my gallery. You see the ones that I messed up and still post it to show others what not to do and I tell them too. I tell them what I doing all the time on any photo or image. 

pushinfader is right on. He will not show you a bad way. I may show you an experment that went bad. And I did that a lot. As for veiws and comments go to poser gallery and you see veiws 500 and comments 10 lol do not add up. so look at veiws just like comments ;they did open your image to look at and that a blessing in my book. 

Your images is good; as you say looking at other people art help you ; so keep on keeping on and hang in there.
sorry for my bad English.

what you see is not what you know; it in your face