The judges may be caught in a time warp where they haven't really caught up with reality yet...is it photography, is it art? No-one has the final authority to say one way or another, and that debate could go round in circles for a long time! Believe me...I tried to start a thread discussing the merits of digital art ~ ie: if anything special came from the new tools and techniques at our fingertips..it seems like that is just being interpreted as an "is it art?" discussion, which really wasn't what I was asking at all...these questions often go on for a long thread, with everyone having different but equally valid viewpoints until they finally peter out...As slynky pointed out over in 2d, Marcel Duchamp exhibited a porcelain urinal as art back in 1917...is it sculpture? LOL... :-)>