"What eowyn and others, who provide light sets, poses etc, are doing is doing the work for us not providing tools." (shrug) - when I go mountain-climbing, I prefer to take my little Minolta QT-si instead of the Maxxum 5... the little QT calculates F-stop and shutter speed for me, so I can concentrate on capturing the shot whilst not falling off a cliff. Tisa (?), you're using the same tired argument the old photogs used when they found their years of hard-won skills rendered moot by the advent of auto-focusing auto-aperture, auto-shutter SLR cameras. Now, any fool can buy a digital camera or a cheap SLR (like the QT-si, which runs a mere $250 at Wal-Mart), slap in some Kodak 800-speed film, ship the roll off to the developers, and whomp out prints with the same technical quality as the world's best photogs. Wanna know what the difference is? It's simple: Composition, lighting, mood, and the photographer's sense of moment. Also, there is a vast difference between snapping a digicam card full of piccys of a quiet stream at the local park, and dragging one's ass and 50lb of assorted gear for 5 hours to 3200m above sea level on a steep mountainside, just to capture the first blush of autumn surrounding various places along a waterfall-laden mountain stream. I did just that very thing yesterday, and just for fun. And yes, I'd do that hike again tomorrow if the clouds come rolling in just a little... Same deal with Poser, except you get the added bonus of hanging around a computer and being on yer ass all day :) BTW - I noticed your gallery... not to be a snot or anything, but do you own the copyrights/negatives to the images you used? And if so, how much did the rights/model's time cost you, especially in the nude and doing (what appears to be) soft-core porn? I'd always wanted to venture into human model shoots, but the cost had always been a factor... a real huge factor if he/she is to get naked in the process. /P