> Well, I'm not 100% sure what Bob Talbot's > messing at - is there a message here?? It's just (a) nature (photographer) imitating art? What message - beauty is in the eye of the beholder? The shot was simply a macro shot of the trunk of a tree - some sort of maple? Dunno, I took lots of bark shots that year. Had forgotten all about this till someone forwarded me the link to an Italian artist's gallery. > Anyway, just my pic of the week: Greg's Siesta. Yes, I felt that was the best too: sommat really special about it. (Not sure the review got through). <<Only a very slight niggle: I > wish I could see just a smidgen of the right eye.>> I'll take it you liked the chocolate then? > My encylopedic ignorance encompasses a lot, including almost the entire > works of Manuel Bravo, The more I study, the more I read, the more I realise the scale of what I don't know. Links like this - provide a few minutes insight in to what is important for others. Bob