No Prob Joerg, I agree with what you said really but I tempt to lump those things into ability, technical ability, dramatic ability, imagination is an ability in my book and i agree there are often too many bland portraits which don't seem to show any ability whatsoever. And spit I generally agree with you about thumbnails there are many images I won't click on simply becouse the thumbnail is useless to garner any information about the piece from. I generally view the artwork from a dialup at work (I'm the owner, I'm allowed)so dont want to waste the download time.