> It is really a family portrait, nothing more. > I gather from all the comments that as a work of art that it is pretty > awful. > I'm just glad to have re-connected with my half sister after 30 years! Chris. It's always a danger putting photos on public display that you have an emotional attachment to. 1) You see more in them than is actually there - "clouded judgement syndrome" 2) It makes any knocks the pictures get harder to take. If the "Member's Exhibit Space" (aka gallery) has anything to say on your shot it is that images can be about more than pretty picture. We might dismiss "snaps" as things you only show your family but in a way wasn't that what led to the first burst of popularity of the medium? Not very good portraits that millions shared as keepsakes of loved ones. Back to the gallery: Apart from the description your image had nothing to connect itself with the story. The challenge - for a public forum - is to make the picture support the story in some way. I'm pleased for you (the re-connection) but it can't make me like the image itself any better. Bob PS ... in Cockney Rhyming slang the "and blister" bit would seldom be said
