OMG...you've cut me to the quick with this one..you're right. No matter how great we think we are, no matter how hard we strive, we might only be a blight to behold !!
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web." Pablo Picasso
Russ, you have taken an ugly model and with great clarity and compostion fully ilustrated to the world that your beetle is still ugly! Or as a famous deity once said, "OMG! Did I create that?" Or something like that. ;)
However, seriously now, the beetle benefits from your great talent.
"...here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)"
Incredible Focus man!
Thanks for the tip on usin a flash on the macro's. In some of them I've done just reciently, it's really made a difference on the DOF. :-) Did ya get my PM bout viewin the High Rez?