My opinion is that there is perhaps too much "technique" and too little "story". I don't like to "put down" too easily the pictures that are posted. It's true that there are many beginners or inexperienced, but I think that there are also many talented image creators that post here at Renderosity. The problem is that apparently, many good image creators, if they have 2 hours for an image, are likely to spend 110 minutes on technical or aesthetical challenges (the best lighting, the most luscious environment, and so on), and maybe only 10 minutes on thinking about the story that's implied in the picture, and how the elements of the image can add to that story, and not only to the visual appeal. In other words: even naked Vickys in temples with swords can be ok, if you can see that they are there for a reason, and this reason is described in the picture in order for it to make the story of the picture interesting. I don't have much free time for creating my images, and probably neither do i have the technical skills that some of the great Poser image creators have, but when I make a picture I try to make either a story, or a symbolic content, emerge from the picture and it's elements. Sometimes I succeed in that, many times I don't, but that's another story. :-)