Lol, same here. Not hi res, although I've discovered this iPhone will do hires, though. Not a good setting when you're in motion, though... (I ended up with "ghost" effects hehehe). I have a folder on my external crammed full of nothing but "texture" photos... Walls, floors, dirt, bark, leaves... You name it, it's probably in there! Between all the pics I've taken and stored on there and all my zipped poser stuff, it takes up about 1.5 TB of storage! Photos (including the non-"texture" ones) take about 25 to 50 GB... If not more lol. I get the strangest looks when i'm walking around and suddenly stop, crouch down, shift around to keep my shadow out of it, and then take pictures of say... Walmart's floor, or a parking lot... Hehehe. I don't care! Hubby used to get frustrated at me, and I bet a little embarrassed by my actions until he saw me put some of my "texture" photos to use one time. Now, he helps me seek out things like that - peeling paint, bricks, rocks, etc. Now I'm educating our housemate - HE still scratches his head at his "sister" (me). He's patient with my actions, even though I'm pretty sure he's gone from "suspecting" I'm nuts to being sure I am lol. But, along with hubby and housemate's family - not a single one doubts my abilities to create beautiful pieces of artwork! (I doubt myself - a lot. I think it's part and parcel of being artistic - you tend to be your own worst critic!). Housemate has begged me for the last year to make a few pics for him - I just wish he'd quit changing his mind on what he actually wants lol. Hubby was so proud of the "gone fishin'" pic I did that got entered into a gallery in Alaska (back when I only had Vue 6 ... Not esprit... Crud, brain not working - it wasn't esprit, and wasn't infinite or xstream... Complete? Grrrrr lol)... I still look at it and see the flaws (boulders that appear to be barely hanging on to the side of a mountain for instance)... But knowing what I know now... I am very proud of that image as well. You see, I did something very complicated (to me lol) to create it... I had to create my height map by hand, and then my materials distribution map by hand - two things I had never attempted before. I also pushed myself by creating mixed & layered materials. I'd attempted them a few times while in Peggy's LVS classes, but nothing nearly as complicated as this thing was! If I recall, I ended up with over 20 different material zones just on the foreground landscape lol. But, hubby took that framed image and it's hanging over the fireplace in the "place of honor". "mom" - (housemate's mom, but his family has "adopted" us)... She's been showing the images i've made & posted on facebook to people she knows around here... She told me almost all of the gallery owners around here keep asking her when I'm coming in with some of my work for them to display & sell! She also told me the ones not asking are those she hasn't run into when out & about chuckles. For the past year, I've been very artistically frustrated. A fine art painter with ideas, and no canvas, paints, or brushes.... The past few months with the computer I returned - was the worst. A painter with finger paints and butcher paper as an example. VERY frustrating! Now, I will have to relearn Vue... Quite a few things changed from 7 inf to 9.5 inf! I think I'm gonna bite back my irritation at the abysmally slow laptop and boot it up and read & re-read vue 9.5's info again and again... Hehehe. Then, I'm gonna see how well it handles Geek @ play's awesome video tutorials and attempt to figure out all these great new features :). I'm terribly excited about being able to "sculpt" caves and overhangs, etc. Maybe by the time my new "baby" arrives, I'll at least have some idea of what's new and how to at least start accessing and using these cool things! Ok, enough of a tome for now... Gonna go boot up "lappy" and try not to rip my hair out hehehe.

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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