Thank you Varian . . . I appreciate your positive comments. The weather, the news, a movie etc. all can have an effect on what kind of an image idea I come up with. Sometimes I even get ideas when I'm in the produce isle of the market looking at the vegetables & fruit, very strange I know. But to be honest, without a program like Vue making everything so easy, to accomplish such a wonderful rendered final image, I don't really know if I would be able to transfer the ideas from my head, to the computer. 8^o Thanks for your suggestion Guitta, maybe I'll give that a try. But as I said earlier, this image is a little different than the others that I've seen on their pic-of-the-day site. ;^) Anyway, thanks again to all of you & have a good one . . . Mark. PS: ( Could someone tell me, when I see an "Instant Message" box at the top of the Renderosity page with a message in it, is the message for me or does that message go to everybody who views the forum pages? I don't want to be rude & not return an answer to someone, if they meant the message for me. )