Dick, great bit of info... What was the name of this "expert" and book? Becky Lynn And also let someone else look at it. I belonged to a group that was learning to do critiques, using our own work and an expert's book as a guide. I presented a half dozen varied images, and the book's standard first question was what did they have in common, based I guess on the fixation on themes. Someone pointed out they were all dead. Sure enough, dead trees, a skull, an ancient car hulk, etc. I had no idea there was a theme to this random collection. Next observation was that all compositions leaned to the left. It helps to get someone else's viewpoint now and then. Regards... Dick Gifford ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.