Thanks people, and thanks for the compliment...That "boy" is a pic of the back of my head! The more I look at these the more I like the B&W version the best, although the colour one I posted in the galleries has a different appeal... Doruk, your description/definition made sense to me, perhaps because I had just done the "merging/joining" of the middle springs which was a lot harder to get "right" than it first seemed! - I ended up with about 6 or 7 individual sections/layers to blend in with each other, all from the same pic, but just to get rid of reflections that shouldn't have been there and so forth. It was fun, however!