"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote in message 
news:42029465@news.povray.org...
>> > Just had a very quick look. This was well worth the wait. Lots of 
>> > superb
>> > images and many of them are *** really *** impressive.
>
> Yay!
>
>>  Good job I didn't enter in the end then. I embarrass myself enough
> already.
>
>
> It seems like a lot of people had this attitude about the competition. I
> think it's sad. If you put months of hard work into something and get it
> into a state that you feel is completed, then you should never be ashamed 
> of
> it, regardless of how it looks next to anything else. And more 
> importantly,
> everyone who is skilled at something was once unskilled at it. (Even 
> Gilles
> Tran's early work looks like everyone else's.) Holding back gets you
> nowhere. Povcomp was an excellent opportunity for everyone to develop 
> their
> skills and I wish more people had taken advantage of it.
>
> Being critical of one's own work is important, but only for the sake of
> self-improvement.
>
> What I'm saying here doesn't apply just to povcomp, or even just to 
> POV-Ray.
> Never decide that you aren't capable of being as good as (or better than)
> the best! Believing in your own potential is necessary to achieve it.

   Slime, trust me my friend, I understood before you posted, exactly what 
you mean and are saying.

    I'm nothing special, and I don't, and won't, believe that for one second 
or minute. I am though, an artist - the same as you and others here. Not an 
an 'on-line' artist like we've 'all' seen and tried to do - but I've done my 
apprenticeship with other mediums when I was younger, and it helps.

 Then PoV-Ray actually came around for me... A different story. Something I 
'could' possibly control/deal with comparative to other <free trial> 
programs, etc. But, if I can't cut the ice, then I have to comply with that 
for now - it's 'really' not a problem for me, I'll get there, because I'm 
stronger than that - really. I won't give up PoVing. The whole thing is not 
about me, it's about the others here, and what they do and try to achieve in 
their own time, and what they share with new people eagerly awaiting around 
the corner - ready to pounce. Yeah, 'pounce' - we all try to do it, which is 
a good thing - competition is always a 'good' thing.

 Ashamed about my image? No way, I just effed-up my details, that's all - 
hence my post above, ("How important...") Remember, I did lose two 'heavy' 
sets of files, (and many previous IRTC image files), that were my efforts 
for the PoVComp, ('Flowers' being one of my early images - it was much 
better than that in the end before losing it), and then I started again with 
another idea after installing XP in December. I compiled my latest image in 
a little over six weeks, not five months.

   See .images.

(Jim, I think this answers your post too - thank you for your kind words, 
appreciated and understood).

(Time for sleep now... I'm cream-crackered! REALLY!)  ;)

  Regards all,

    ~Steve~




>
> - Slime
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
>
>