You defend with bitterness an assume everyone will embrace your snap shots with enthusiasm like you, and some do...

It's always the same thing... mindlessly posting everyday photos and expect an ego boost, then start throwing insults to defend yourself... and by the way, not so nice of a way to start out.

Whats the significance of you photos other than your assumption everyone will find your grand daughter as adorable as you think...

Where are the questions or any kind of enlightenment?

What camera is used? the lighting conditions, resolution, F stop, shutter speed, anything that is worth talking about other than your admiration for your adorable grand children?

It seems a few are on the same ship sailing into the so typical sh*t storm of ridicule here once again... Be smart and post your images in the proper place and forget the ignorance defense to avoid this in the future please...

There seems to be those with common technical sense expecting questions and responses to subjects of interest in this main topic area, but others who love flowers, unknown grand children and just pretty things popping up on their monitors as they navigate another wonderful non-productive day just for the pure joy of it...

Over and over it is explained where and what you should do with your gallery photos, first nice... and then hate and the defense of ignorance and displeasure takes over... eventually all hell breaks out.

Was it really worth it for you to share your personality traits with your responses and turn the photos of your family into a point of argument?

For me I don't want to be bored with snap shots of someones grand children, butterfly's or for that matter flowers in the main discussion area, learn and move on...

After observing a quite embarrassing exchange with a brand new member who dared to pist some photographs in an introductory post here yesterday, I went on a search to find the actual posted written rules forbidding photographs in this forum. I looked in all obvious spots for a specific ruling. I intentionally omitted looking anywhere that required any level of mind reading or ExtraSensory Perception. I found nothing. Nada. Zilch.

In fact, in the rules for this section, the very first specific instruction I found covered not only "How to post a picture," but also how to "Store Original," in order to post it with higher resolution.

My intent here is not to pick a fight. I'm sure this post is well along a path of being moved. But if this forum is to survive, it is time to start focusing on what matters. Photograps are generally not evil on a photography forum.