perhaps... personally, my 'minimalist' entry was done that way on purpose. I wanted to do an image that most anyone, with a little thought and tinkering, could create as soon as they install the program. Because, IMHO, that is also one of Bryce's best features. Over the past year that I've been an active member of this forum, I have learned tons of exciting new techniques and intend to use them extensively in the future. But, at the moment, it was my opinion that all of those techniques were being done to death. I figured from drac's final challenge description that many would be using faked GI, and importing images to create terrains & lattices, and to texture them with. Therefore, I went 'retro' and tried to create the best landscape I could and texture it using nothing but tools and presets supplied with the program - while keeping with the theme of the challenge. BTW... there were no fancy lighting tricks used... just a radial light insided the 'temple' and a squashed, inverted cone with 'lit rays' preset, slightly tweaked. This is not to say that I was disappointed in this month's entries. I didn't feel like they were predictable or 'done to death' at all. On the contrary, I was very impressed with the ideas that many were able to bring to fruition using only Bryce's native tools. As I write this, I still haven't voted... because I just can't make up my mind. So, disregarding the controversy which arose, I think it was a successful challenge...