Well, got my Carrara installed and updated and tried my hand at my first image. Still not finished adding the planned details and lighting needs considerable work. Found the basic physics of object and light behavior quite easy to understand...it's the modeling techniques that I need to refine. Joined this forum last week and find the contributors to be very useful. Hope to post more as I figure this sucker out. Hope the uplink attachment works. Thanks for all of the help, guys.