Thanks for including my photo "Ohanami" in this week's gallery. I always feel honored to have a photo selected. 

Only one issue; my photo is mistakenly attributed to Frodo. If someone could correct that I would appreciated it. I'd like any viewers to be able to see the image at full size.

Congratulations to everyone in the gallery. Some terrific work here.

-Alan

Thanks for including my photo in this week's selection. It's quite an honor to be included among such beautiful images, particularly since it's the first thing I've posted in nearly a year. Congratulations to everyone.

Alan

 How cool is that? Thanks for selecting one of my photos.
Congratulations to everyone else -- great stuff.

 Congratulations to everyone chosen this week. Really an amazing display of work. 
I feel very honored to be included. Thanks.
-Alan

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1678437

Thanks for choosing one of my photos for this gallery. I feel very honored to be included among so many beautiful images. -Alan

Hi all, I just wanted to say that I am still involved in the critique group, but my participation is very limited due to interference from that pesky real life. I've been very pleased with the feedback I've received on my own images, but as I've viewed others I've noticed that critical comments have kind of faded away. When I was participating more actively I was examining images very closely, looking for areas that could be improved. It was a time-consuming, but enjoyable process. Recently I've seen very few comments of that sort. Has it just been too much trouble to critique images or has there been a negative reaction to criticism? A couple of random observations: -I find it difficult to critique images that already have several pages of comments. You have to read through the previous comments to see if your point has already been made and often that just takes too much time. -There are artists who work in genres that just don't connect with me. Their work may be technically fine, but it just doesn't appeal to me. So I've turned off notification to help keep my ebot population under control. -I've been working with my new camera, trying to get it under control. I posted a few images to the Photography gallery and found it is a lonely world over there. In the Poser gallery you expect to get 200-300 views in the first 24 hours (and another 100 if you've flagged nudity ;-)), but in Photography, a typical image seems to get 20-40 views ever. My only wish, which I've voiced before, is that revising an image based on the feedback it receives could trigger an ebot. I think this would make the criticism process more of a dialogue, without cluttering your personal gallery with multiple versions of the same image. -Alan

Yes, I've always wondered about the social aspect of Renderosity. The are obviously cliques of friends who support each others' work, but how are these friendships established? Is there a huge amount of IM-ing going on, that I'm not party too? Or are they friends in real life? Or is it all the result of posting a "Great image!!!" comment on every image posted? Somebody's got to be in loop. Please tell us how it works. -Alan

Just curious about how people are using the critique group. Say you've posted an image and have received a ton of helpful critiques. Do you take the information and apply it to your next image or do you go back and re-work the original image? If you re-work the image, how do you post it? Do you edit the original image and replace it with the new and improved or do you post the improved image anew? I've seen a lot of people respond to critiques in their own comments, but it seems to me unlikely that the original critic will be back to see the comment. I wonder if there is a way to make the critiquing process more of a dialogue. Obviously the surest way to get further feedback is to post the improved image as a new image, but then you have two similar images in your gallery and if you delete the original image, you lose all of your comments. I wish there was a way to trigger an ebot when you update an image. Anyway, I'm curious how others are dealing with this. -Alan

Boy, I'm really coming to this late -- real life has been a pain recently. Anyway, this is such a good idea. I greatly appreciate feedback and the few critiques I've received have generally been very helpful. Please sign me up. -Alan

It would be funnier if as a Mac user I recognized the problems he was complaining about. As it is, it seems that he's terribly upset that the Mac doesn't operate exactly the same as a PC. Duh. -Alan

Quote - not that long ago, an independant made a "reverse" commercial to the pc/mac ads....... its back when people would hav the mac commercials, a single individual, "hi i'm such in such...... and here's what i can do on my mac......." so on so fourth.  Not sure if you remember them.  

Wish i had a link to the skewer did in reverse, i nearly fell off my chair.   I'm a pc user, and i've seen macs........   still not sold. lol.    Yes, some things about the PC sucks, but Mac's have their OWN issues, different, but just as mind strangling as ours.  Don't let the ads fool you, no one's grass is any greener.