Perhaps I should give up commenting on any work I think is very good, as noncritical comments seem despised by some of you.

And who am I as a rank beginner to make CRITICAL comments, as I only own a point and shoot and can't do HDR whatever that entails.

Personally I know which opinions of my work I value the most, I am well able to sort out the informed from the rest. But it is good that the rest have looked............
There are as many reasons for taking pictures as there are photographers.