I only post this becuase I have found that a lot are posting under the genre "Surrealism". While I think many are confussed as to what it really is.

I think most of what I have seen here claiming surreal, would be better under Weird, or abstract. I did some reading on the www about surrealism recently. Since after seeing many images that didn't really look the way I always understood it to be. One site I found had this break down of what it is:

Familiar Objects That Have Been Oddly Changed Surrealist objects are painted in ways that look real but have been oddly changed.
In "The Red Model" by: RenMargritte there is a pair of boots that has been oddly changed into feet but still look like boots!
In Salvador Dali's painting "The Persistence of Memory" there are melting clocks and a clock with ants coming out of it. The clocks look real but they are melting and clocks usually are not melting. (from- http://library.thinkquest.org/J002045F/surrealism.htm)

I have just noticed a real lack of any kind of realism in many of the Surreal pics.. The realism needs to be there, or the genre would just be called Sur! LOL..( Just a thought and figured I would share. Thoughts? Comments?