Okay, you've all hit a nerve with me for sure! I have for a long long time been totally baffled by how prolific so many of you are in your artwork. I know you must be spending a LOT of time at it for these pieces to come out as beautiful as they do and for you to have developed the skills you have. Let me say now that I for one have noticed and admire and appreciate all of your hard labors to bring these fascinating bits of eye candy to us. If you will look at my gallery you will notice that I haven't added to it in ages. I have realized that I am at an awkward stage in my skills. Finally advanced enough that I can (sometimes) create some decent images worthy of sharing. And advanced enough that as I get into an image I am working on I think of ways to tweak it and fine-tune it to make it better, or things that it needs that I am just "not quite there yet" to do. And all this adds greatly to the time it takes to finish a piece. I have dozens and dozens of unfinished pictures and pieces of pictures all over my hard-drive and on CDs and such. My hat is off to all of you for your great dedication and perseverance!!! -- Jeff in Arkansas