James,

Thanks for scoring and insight. I personally gain a lot from comments like yours and Roman's. I look at the comments and the photo and can understand your perspectives. Funny - I never noticed the clutter until you mentioned it. I am going to try to clone some of that away.

This shot was my first attempt at some of the techniques from the first couple of chapters of the Margulis books, so it was helpful to hear comments that I attribute to those techniques.

I would say knowing the photo will be viewed with this new criteria is a plus for me. It certainly made me nervous about posting, but I figured I would get over it. In this case I knew the shot was not "stunning", so I wanted to know what I might have done to make it "stunning". You both answered that in a way that probably would not have happened without the criteria.

Thanks again for your suggestions.

Dave