Thank you for the honour.  Best wishes to all fellow gallery exhibitors!!

Thanxx for the selection - MUCH appreciated.

That was a VERY nice surprise.  Thanxx for the selection.

Regards    - Paul Marcroft (aka xxancroft)

It is a privilege to have a photo selected for 2007 - week 52.
The other photo-works are stunningly beautiful without exception.

We are indeed fortunate creatures to have aesthetics meshed into our being.

Thanxx for admitting one of my shots for this stunning selection.  Every one of the photos unleashes a pleasant burst of neuro-chemicals into the aesthetic modules of the brain.

Thanxx to all who gave me some good ratings.  No doubt this enabled one of my shots to rub shoulders with some fine photographs.  We are indeed fortunate to live in such a world of beauty and colour.

Consistently enjoyable fragments of a beautiful planet.
Congratulations
And have a good Day!!!

Dreamer101 and Ornlu Thankyou for your comments. They are nmost helpful. I will try out your suggestions, on this and some other red lined photos. Incidentally the pic is an onboard view of troops on Parade on a Sunday, steaming from Auckland NZ toward Japan on HMS Glory at the end of WW2.

Thanks for your comments dreamer101 and hoofdcommisaris. The original photo is no bigger than 3"x 5" Is it better to work on bitmap or a jpeg? Dreamer101 where do i find the tinker button on photoshop?? What did you do to the image? Thanxx again!

Thanks for the tips. I think I'll have to get painter, or maybe stick to trad 2d painting.