I was trying to help him, mate - he said himself he didn't notice that before - don't take everything so seriously (Fat Boy). Why do you feel the need to defend everybody from what I would consider constructive criticism? I choose not to post my pictures on this site, because it isn't the point of the site, and that nobody cares about them anyway - my images get like 2 comments, then other people's get bumped like a million times - I wasn't even going to look at this thread, as this isn't what I think is important on this site, but, it got bumped back up the list, and thought I'd just make an observation (I was going to say constructive critique, but, I'd get drilled for trying to help, or trying to make it my image). Considering how little I say in this section of the forum, why should you say "It is ironic that those who produce so little often have so much to say"?
I personally thrive on people giving my stuff criticism, as I think its pretty much the only way one can proceed - I'm certainly not saying my stuff is good - but, I'll post a comparison of how much criticism helped change an image I made a year or 2 ago.
Original
Final
Peoples' criticism helped me to make what I consider to be better than the original.
I don't want to make this into SSW, I think that'd be a terrible thing to do, I'm only defending myself from Fat Boy's harsh statements. This'll be my last comment of this sort in this section on this forum.