the challenge is to create an image that evokes some strong emotion BUT: no people, animals, birds, or fish are allowed in the image. just inanimate objects, plants, stuff like that. and it has to be black, white and shades of grey. no other colors.

Ooo... now this is different. :) Question on the B&W, is Sepia allowable ?

no. just black, white and shades of grey

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crystal wizard, you should post a picture yourself, so we get a sample of what you mean this is really hard to come up with something i mean, black and white with people, okay colour with no people, again, okay but black and white AND with no people is really tough :p i mean, you can easily make something like that, but to put strong emotion into that that'll take some thinking i'll be back later, have to contemplate now ;)

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i getcha now hmmm, this'll be really hard :p how do you make that hovering mist thing? is it just a 2D layer added on top? i can never get it right i think you should win your competition heheh it's a really evocative image, with the dried-up trees and the graves and mist and all very nice

i started with the graveyard. for the second layer, i pasted down the traintracks and then set transparency on the tracks at 50%. for the 3rd layer i took an image i'd shot of some fairly thick storm clouds, then set transparency at fairly low, so it was misty then for the last layer i took a copy of the graveyard, cut out just the few tombstones that were at the end of the tracks and pasted them dow so they show up while everything else fades away. then i merged the layers. Thanks for the compliment :)

complexxxxxxx :pppp i'm so horribly hopeless with post work heheh the clouds2mist trick was cool though, i never thought of it you sound really resourceful heheh tell me though, is the graveyard a photo, or did you actually create it?

complexxxxxxx :pppp i'm so horribly hopeless with post work heheh the clouds2mist trick was cool though, i never thought of it you sound really resourceful heheh tell me though, is the graveyard a photo, or did you actually create it?

everything in that image started life as photos. graveyard, tracks and clouds.

can you use human bones

yeah, bones would be objects

opps, i mean, MAJOR post work in photoshop :)

Okay... I'm going to enter this -- HOWEVER, I want to state first and foremost that I do not in any way support either of the organisations represented in the image I will post. I feel they are both fascistic corrupt forms of government, which is the reason i have represented them like this, together. However, you asked for something at will invoke an emotion with no living things in entirely black and white. Photoshop 5.5, about two minutes.

Naah, on second thought, I'm not going to post it. I think it will evoke a little too much emotion.

On the other hand with all the nukes in here, I may as well go ahead.

How long do we have to get our image turned in? I'm trying to work on something that may work in here, but, am still majorly learning, so, it probably won't be as nice as your alls. But, isnt that the whole point in entering these things? To learn? Anywho... just thought I would ask. Thanks....

MRX: I like that one. Though I thought the wording said 'Neverland' and somehow that had more of an effect. Sort of like the idea of childhood fantasies being collapsed in ruin.

Thanks Dodger thats a good idea as well :o) It all means the same in the end does'nt it? This is a great challenge by the way.

Yup. I'm surprised I didn't get flamed for 'going there' with mine, though. B^)

Dodger: Your work certainly fit the criteria for producing emotional response. Lets just hope that we always have the right to express ourselves through our art.

Oh, forgot to mention a credit to MrX3010 for his Tipi package....

OOh. Eww. Yup, good one. That twists my stomach in knots.

mine too Dodger, it was actually hard for me to make it. Emotionally that is....}}i{{