Drac, if nothing else your challenge topic has certainly stirred some emotions!!! As to being "immensly pleased"...you've every right to be. My image received four points last month and I was excited that I had gotten any at all!! I liked the fact that this challenge was Bryce only and that no post work was allowed. I have been playing around in Bryce since Bryce2. It's only been within the last 6 or 8 months that I have had poser so I tend to add people to a lot of things now...it's new. That being said, I have learned more about Bryce in the last few months of being involved here than I had learned in all of the preceding years combined. The truth of the matter is that without this forum I could not have created my entry this month. I learned from texture tutorials by Roobol and Agent Smith. I used a 2d image from DoubleCrash's gallery. I have been pushed to try new things just by looking through the galleries of the likes of FW Tempest, Ornlu, tjohn, Agent Smith and ICM Graphics...to name but a few. The monthly challenge typically pushes me to try something more ambitious than the norm, not less...and this one pushed me quite a bit. I thought the limitations were good, I thought the explanation was sufficient and I thought the interpretations were varied enough to make it interesting. I'm sorry if there are some who feel that the efforts put forth this month were somehow less creative. But for me, this challenge allowed me to add some new tools to my quiver and, I hope, raised the level of what I can do going forward. Sorry for rambling...again....