I believe that the more specialized forums you have the more you tend to isolate the members from each other and the weaker the site becomes. Take a look at Westfly.com. They have separate forums for several states and the members have became so polorized that they post items such as fly swaps or what type of rod would you use in the state forum rather than the general forum. I fear that the establishment of a whole bunch of specialized forum on FAOL will be regretted.

Besides if you go to Google & enter Photo Forum you getover 300 million hits.

Tim