An honor to once again be included in this gallery of great photographers. I do not envy the staff in having to pick photos every week from all the great images.

Congrats! A great gallery deserves a great award. Keep up the good work.

A nice group of photos to be included with. Congrats to all

Roanoke Island

perfect timing with Easter dinner just around the corner.

Look forward to the mouth watering images to come

taken in downtown Ithaca NY

That is a fantastic image of a church in the woods. My kind of field trip

Bell Tower of the Bienvenidos Mision' San Jose. Just outside of San Antonio Texas

This hive probably took 20 or more years to build. The hive was in a HUGE tree that was hollow in the center, it extended for 8-10 vertical feet.

I also was a victim of my own making. Thousands of photos and no rhyme or reason to them. I would not say I am cured but certainly reformed. I used the following method to help me sort through the sea of bad to get the gold.

1.all photos imported with date as folder name.

2.Since I shoot in raw I have an extra step once my post work is done, I have to save the master and then save again as a Jpeg.(I only do this for the stuff I am looking at presenting.

3.When I look through the batch the first time I pull out the keeprs and move them to a folder called Best of..(2012 or whatever the year may be)

1. After the post is done I save the master back to the 'best of' folder and then the jpeg to a subfolder called 'web ready'.

5.Once I have uploaded I move the file to another subfolder called 'posted to renderosity' This way I know that if there is a file in web ready, I have not yet uploaded it.

When I feel nostalgic or want to find something new to work on I can just go back through the dated folders and pick a time of year that I think might hold an interesting hidden gem. It isn't perfect but it has helped me sort out the mess.

As for all of the saving of same but different files, by shotting in raw(for Nikon) I can edit and save as many versions as I want inside of the one raw file. This way there is only one file with multiple versions of the same picture.

Congrats to all! There are some fantastic pics in LWiTG #8.

Thanks to all who thought enough of my image to select it for a coveted spot in LWitG.

It is niceto know others can appreciate the image as much as I did when seeing it through the lens.

ImRassilon{Mike}

Well heres a ray of hope. I may have solved the program freeze issue by following the info on the Smith-Micro knowledge base. I erased all the temp files and ran windows disk fix. I'm crossing my fingers but no crashes so far. I also installed a few new items in the Poser root folder. and the created an image with only those items found in the poser folder[no external runtimes]. I rendered with the image, saved the image, restarted poser and Voila' no errors in loading. Maybe poser 7 and Vista don't see eye to eye on who gets accesss to what. Still looking for any and all input.
TIA
ImRassilon

I have uninstalled and reinstalled P7. no change. I have erased thre pref files no help. I have run windows in diagnostic mode[no virus software or other background programs running.] No Change. Is it possible that having the extrernal runtimes is causing the issues? I can't see it causing the program to  stop responding, but it would maybe explain the inablity to find or load materials. I am hoping someone out there has had this problem and found a suitable solution.
I await your agravation ending answers
TIA
ImRassilon

Tainted_heart  How about program stability? Are you getting the crashes as well?