Is it only the money that really bothers people about this photograph?

I suspect that it is; there are much worse photographs, and much worse art but if these are changing hands for £50, £500 or £5000 nobody bats-an-eyelid. Of course it is entirely natural to think so if £2.7million is a lot of money to you (or me) but I doubt that anybody would even be aware if the buyer had spent £2.7million on a second (or third) home or a (second or third) yacht!

With a human life worth about £5 all of us have wasted money ‘on meaningless and irrelevant crap’ haven’t we?

I would say for me it was the price that attracted me to start this thread and as to whether it is any good or not. If it had sold for something like £200 it would not have attracted any attention at all, unless somebody posted a copy of it here asking opinions.
Taste in art and photography is much like food really some like spicy and interesting others like bland and boring and many of fall in between the two.

To play devils advocate slightly we are all asuming he/she bought it as a piece of art they liked, however maybe it was purely a business type investment for somebody with loads of money who realises theres a lack of profit in yachts and houses lately, and saw art as a better bet.

I see your point that its worth whatever anybody is willing to pay for it, and I like the fact it appeals to you also as it means I am missing something in the image that you can see that really goes to show how subjective art and photography is and one persons rubbish is anothers treasure.

The other thing that interests me is having taken shots that were not that disimilar and chose to get rid of them as they did not appeal to me as images, is that somebody else may of liked them and I never thought of them as any good.

Having said that its still an awful lot of money for any shot in my opinion.

Hi PeeDee I have gone for the Canon 18-135 lense now and just waiting for it to be delivered i got it for £240 which is the cheapest I have seen it, For my budget It feels the best option and I really can not upgrade any further so fingers crossed it will be OK.

I use my camera a great deal so I wanted a lense thats easy to take about with me, I agree the 18-55 was a bit limited, I think I got my moneys worth out of it though. As to the tests I personally feel as long as I can achieve photos I like and others seem to appreciate then I am happy, so fingers crossed this lense will allow that to happen.

Thanks for all the advice guys.