Hmm... I remember being very resistant to the advent of the digital photography myself but once I had experienced it I became totally smitten, (but then I'm a very addictive personality). What fantastic joy to be able to achieve what I had pre-visualised! I've worked as a photographer (and assistant) for over twenty-five years so I could always take an alright photo, but all to often it would fall short of what I wanted. Those who keep their minds closed to innovation can't really call themselves artists because the idea of art is surely to strive to find new ways to see and do and express things. Like you said before, many people on here add their holiday and or pet snaps which isn't really art and there's not really anything wrong with that, but likewise these peoples views on what is 'good' or not shouldn't carry that much weight either. I don't have a great number of pageviews which until recently used to bother me a bit. Now I'm happy to think that if someone stumbles across my page and it provides them with some joy or amusement or insight then that's cool. The photography fraternity has always been preoccupied with equipment and gadgets. Most of the time it's what they get off on, but at the end of the day it's not what you've got it's how you use it... Something more photographers should be aware of. ok, rant over.