Thank you all for your kind comments....I know it has it's problems, but I learn so much from each piece I attempt. So I'll go on entering challenges and contests, because the deadlines force me to actually finish something (!) instead of hiding it until I get it right. Solved the focus problem in a typically newbie-ish, unpractical way---rotated the whole scene (not the camera...Doh!) until everything was in clear focus. Hubby is not in the marketplace. Yet. There's such a dearth of nice hairy chests in there though....hmmm? Rendered in Poser. And as I write, my entry for the Bryce Atlantis challenge is rendering in the background--all 1,079 objects and 1,963,293 polygons of it--so I'd better go get it into the gallery before I forget how to do that!