It seems a lot of members do not 'cruise' the gallery looking at these so perhaps I am alone here, yet I find it astonishing the number of thumbnails that have no resemblance to the actual image.

I judge by the thumbnail if I am going to take a closer look at an image or not. Often when the full image is viewed it can be a disappointment compared to the impression given by the thumbnail and I'll move swiftly on. Conversely I have opened some thumbnails, I had not considered on first inspection, only to find a quite stunning image when it is viewed.

Seems a strange strategy to me to have a different thumbnail image to the full size. Surely if an artist thinks the thumbnail they have made has more impact and will attract viewers more than the full size image, then they would have done better to take the shot as framed in the thumbnail.

Yours,
Mystified of Tunbridge Wells.

Message edited on: 01/03/2006 15:28

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
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