This is exactly what I hope the general public go through and give up and come back to the OP. Obviously the bird pic did not come up. I am giving up on posting pics and will just stick to the written word. (as boring as that can be)

I really enjoy your comments on posted images. It is great fun to see how others look at your work. Critiques are the best! It would be nice to have a section on critiques where no name is attached. That way no expectations are given knowing the photographer and maybe more from the gut reactions may be posted. But then we know where the cropping would be coming from!!!!

On that note, I often wonder when you view a painting do you evaluate it with the same reasoning as a photograph. Tony, I love to see your cropping. It seems to me that when we look at other medium the cropping is more of a factor with photography. Why is that?