Hi Folks!! This image, which is also in the gallery of my web site, is ironically called "Waiting." Thanks to JeffH, GeorgeD and all the others for posting assistance. And thanx to Trimax for the blinds .obj and Anton for the .obj primitive I used as the lampshade. I'm still not sure I've got this worked out, but I'll get better with practice. And I still don't understand why I can't load an image out of a random folder on my hard drive. Peter (Dr Zik)