[Will Enns]

Steven,

There appear to be two schools of thinking emerging on this subject - one led by you, and the other led by my wife.

Your logic demands that I should follow your advice, but the ring in my nose demands that I should listen to my wife.

"Women will probably respond better to the way I'm suggesting," she says. Alicia's earlier post seems to support this. "Women do more shopping, women do more buying," she says. "If you want to sell, do it my way," she says.

I believe I will have to paint two pictures to find out which of the two I should paint. And I think that is what I may in fact do. One to sell, and one to post here. That way, us logical guys won't have to lose face. (Those of us who have a face worth worrying about.)

Tammy,

Thank you for your kind words. I hope you can learn from my mistakes, and I'm sure you will come up with some striking images. I hope you post them for us to see.

Mike,

I've read many of your posts, and find each of them very informative, this one included. Of course I don't mind that you cropped. There is one question: You ended up with a square composition. Why would you do this, and how can you justify it from a compositional point of view?

BTW, the hand is patched in from the first image because in the photo as it stood, the hand was all wrong.