I got back from a few days away on the coast to find all hell has broken loose here on Renderosity. A new look, changes to how you upload artwork, heavy emphasis on social media & a lot of disgruntled users, some of whom are leaving or threatening to leave Renderosity. Here's my personal take on it: Change can be difficult to accept & is almost always met with resistance, but in general is a healthy & inevitable thing. But changes to an online community need to be made thoughtfully & with input from the members of that community. It seems to me that, as with other changes made in the past here, neither of those were the case this time & that's why folks are justifiably angry. I don't use Facebook, Twitter or other forms of social media, so those changes are irrelevant to me. I'm not thrilled with the new look, but I'm pretty sure I can get used to it over time. I understand that many people are upset with the new image guidelines, but personally I don't like to scroll to see a complete image, generally don't post over 1200 pixels wide & found that most significantly larger photographic images, when forced to be compressed down to 512 kb, were unacceptably fuzzy. Even for images within the new guidelines, however, 512 kb is often insufficient to prevent degradation of the image & I would love to see that at least doubled. What I didn't appreciate was that auto-generation of thumbnails was eliminated, which was a definite step backwards. And that after I submitted an upload expecting a thumbnail to be auto-generated, I was rudely informed that I needed to provide my own thumbnail. And to add insult to injury, all the other fields I had filled in were now blanked out (where formerly they had been retained when one mandatory field was inadvertently omitted). I hope some of these problems can be worked out & that the folks whose work I enjoy & admire will hang in there for a while. I plan to stick it out for now, but if enough of those people leave the site, I probably will too. As for this image, I took it just a short walk down from our hotel in Yachats. Unfortunately, I found that there were some smudges on my lens that affected almost all the photos I took during this short trip (I'm far-sighted, so it's hard for me to spot things like that though my little viewfinder). Fortunately, Photoshop's Spot Healing tool make it easy to eliminate things like that in most cases... Please zoom.