First of all, where are these rules located? Have I not found all the nooks and crannies in the Photography gallery? I have uploaded 30 or so images without the benefit of the basics. After following a number of these type of threads I have found that I have no comment etiquette, my pictures are not only boring as s*** (pardon my asterisks) but are not even worthy of critique or even viewing. And now I am going back and to figure out if some of my uploads have met these rules. I have reviewed a couple of obvious pics and agree they miss the 50% rule by a large margin. I don’t agree with moving them to the 2D or mixed media galleries so I have removed them. I don’t think its that big of deal for me since each only had a couple of wow,cool comments(which I like but now wonder the motive) and were not on favorites lists. I really don’t understand why the two tutorials were presented in the Photography gallery when both break the 50% rule. I should have actually just posted the ‘rayburg’ type pic in the tutorial thread.

I don’t know about other newcomers but I am a little discouraged by this type of thread. Where were you elder guys 3 or 4 months ago? This type of picture or the comment thing was going on then too.

Whew, got that out my system. The Photography members have been great to me, but I should have spent a little more time on the ins and outs of this type of website and really have no excuse for not knowing the basics.

Many apologies for my indiscretions, I still like this place and there is plenty to keep me coming back for inspiration.

Finally, does cropping a photo to under 50% of the original fail under the rule?

Mike