Hey Bryster, best wishes and a gentle push on the road to recovery from me :)

may 2011 bring you good luck health and happiness!

waves to pakled

WTF?

i once posted an image of a chair that was slightly less than comfy...:)
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1256312&member

the lands end scenario is just stupidity, i agree with you there, and as for st.pauls. i'm unaware of the photography policy although it might be a low level light situation where the delicate paintwork could be damaged by too much flash photography.or it might be more sheer bloody mindedness ;)

i can't agree with the "if its on public display its fair game" point of view, that would surely condone any work of art being public property as soon as it is released (a bit like downloading your favourite new track illegaly perhaps?). There is always something to be said for having an original i think.

i'll throw my tuppence worth in here. i work in a museum and the photography rule changes depending on what the subject is. for instance if we stage an exhibition of picasso paintings from other galleries or museums then no photography is allowed because the lenders have not given permission.
however if we stage an exhibition of picasso items that we own, then you can snap away till yer hearts content..

would any painter staging an exhibition agree to everyone photographing their paintings? i doubt it.
so don't sue or shoot the messenger.it's the individual artist or owner of the pieces that decide if it can be photographed in most cases, not the institution.

wow.. that is really incredible. Reminds me of the work of Ron  Muek although its slightly more fantasy. stunning sculpture!

aye, ye canny beat it!

What can be wrong is censorship from others.. external censorship.

agreed!

prop-osterous thread which should have died long ago.....let it go people :blink:

good debate shaping up here...
i work in a museum in a job that gets no closer to design than microsoft word clip art.
given my hobby of bryce etc. i applied for a job as a print designer which recently came up ( i did not think i had a chance since i had no formal design qualifications, but i wanted to know exactly what was required)
now get this:
out of 16 applicants, i made the final two on strength of my practical work, (i failed the techie stuff-who knew that the K inCMYK stood for black?)
as it turns out, one of the three members of the panel favoured me and i did not get the job..However, i now have been given a brief for  a freelance project and if it goes okay i will be used in the future!

Back to the point of this debate...after i had given the web address of my gallery here at Rendo...the panel looked closely at all my work  (this surprised me no end!)

and the image which took me through to the final two was: Nine out of Ten cats which i would have to say, i would have probably removed along with one or two others, had i thought my gallery was going to be taken into consideration for employment.

so take your own thoughts from this cautionary tale. why censor your own work if you created it in the first place? art (if i may be so bold) is and always has been a subjective thing. 
what some loathe...others love.. but that is part of the thrill i think and where would we be without independent opinions? :blink:

i have the zenith studio, daylight etc stuff on my bryce 5 but i seldom use them unless i want to render for 2 weeks solid .

Thanks for the heads up. i am off to weep inconsolably at the thought of all the money i paid out for the millenium dragon..:(

If you have Photoshop, you may want to try this free plug-in.http://www.redfieldplugins.com/filterSeamlessWorkshop.htm.
personally i use a nifty wee program that makes seamless textures from any picture at the click of a mouse, but since i am at work and i have the old brain-fog just now ,i cannot for the life of me remember its name. 
also heres a neat tutorial on How to Create a Seamless Texture using Adobe Photoshop.
tutorial (By Darren Hester)
 i will try to remember that programs name and post it later.

those instructions are great....even i managed to follow them. i created a movie with shiny spheres  all around as a test.. now to do a proper one! ;)

Thnxs electroglyph!