[mel]

I'm going to jump in here finally. I am new to the PPG and the very first image I submitted got in. But the next three were quickly rejected. I now have a slew of them under review. Looking at the rejects, and going through the voting process, I can understand pretty much why they were rejected (one of them more in principle rather than quality if anyone but me understands what I mean by that).

I have done some small-time jobs for money and I have sold a few prints, but I still got a bit of a tickle when my first image was deemed worthy by my fellows to show in this gallery. It meant other people liked it too, and not because they were just being nice.

I think the peer voting sample that is taken before they kick it out is large enough to eliminate any randomness or having-a-bad-day-ness in the voting. For a small fry nameless nobody like myself, it's quite a charge to my personal ego to be in the same gallery with the likes of Benjamin Kanarek (and my sincere apologies if my presence causes any drop in your status).

Just my own thoughts.