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Hey, 68 entries in this months Challenge!! The most we have had for some time. You people love your trees, and, great trees they are. There are ALL sorts of pictures this month, be sure to check them all 68 out! ------------- The link is to the thumbnails in the new upload area (4 pages), each thumbnail has to be clicked on individually. Check out the entries, and then come back here to this thread to place your votes. (voting will go on 2-3 days) ------------- **Voting is the 3-2-1 method. Give 3 points to your favorite, then 2 points to your next fave, and then 1 point to your next. Votes should be in this format, or they cannot be counted. Also, votes should NOT be like this; 1.) member1 2.) member2 3.) member3 I do not know if you mean "member 1" is your first/best favorite (which should get 3 points), or if you mean "member 1" should only get 1 point. Try to vote something like this; member 1 - 3 points (or) 3 points - member 1 Thanks a bunch, it will help vote counting go way faster! Thanks to all you 68 entrants! ----------- Now go vote!!! And, remember There are FOUR pages of thumbnails!!!!!!!! AgentSmith

chohole........3 points muddygrub......2 points electroglyph...1 point

danamo----------> 3 points muddygrub-------> 2 points windofchanges---> 1 point This was hard to choose from cause everyone did such nice work with this challenge. So I just want to say Nice Work People. 8)

Sambucus - 3pts Ornlu - 2pts WindOfChanges - 1pt Good Job and Good Luck to everyone

alvinylaya - 3 points Zhann - 2 points sackrat - 1 point

3 points Sambucus 2 points Zhann 1 point Chohole

Zhan - 3 points Danamo - 2 points Sambucus - 1 points Whew... That was VERY hard to pick.

Jausse - 3 points miden1138 - 2 points jasonmit - 1 points

Creations - 3 points Quest - 2 points Scottuck3d - 1 point

Zhan - 3 points Jausse - 2 points sackrat - 1 points Very tough call! A LOT of good ones. I judged primarily on 1) the trees: quality, variety and use of trees. 2) Beauty of scene and how the tree(s) is involved in the scene. Great work everyone!

Macmondo - 3pts Svaelt - 2pts Jo3l - 1pt

Stephen Ray - 3 pts. Sambucus - 2pts. Zhann - 1pt. So much great work here, it was difficult to decide! I went for images that broke the norm, and didn't look particularly Brycean. Sambucus' piece was awesome, very imaginative and full of detail! Zhann's piece, although it looked Brycean, was excellent, sooo much detail! (And you call it a WIP!) But I think Stephen Ray broke down the barriers and made something that really stands out, and exemplifies tree-drawing better than anyone else's work. Good job, everyone!

member Jausse- 3 points member brholt- 2 points member sackrat- 1 point

Wow, voting was hard on this one--so many fantastic entries. 3 points - Muddygrub (love the tree, and that waterfall is fantastic) 2 points - Quest (beautiful scene, the tree is great) 1 point - Stephen Ray (I love the whole concept, very clever) Honourable mentions: all the other ones. Great challenge Stefano!

Really good everyone!!I should vote last so not many sticks are thrown at me .Here goes.. Zhann---> 3 pts Kate----> 2 pts sackrat-> 1pt Honourable mentions: danamo,lightpen,miden1138, catlin_mc, Dennisld

amethyss 3 point DoubleCrash 2 point WindOfChanges 1 point Too hard to choose they are all wonderful!

Alvinylaya 3 Danamo 2 Sambucus 1

Lots of entries and lots of great images to choose from made the choices hard. jedwindells - 3 danamo - 2 ang25 - 1

Zhann - 3 points alvinylaya - 2 points svaelt - 1 point Really hard to choose...great work everyone! - Peter C.

alvinylaya-3 swade-2 zhann-1 Congtratulations Everyone!!!:)

amethyss>3pts sakrat>2pts woodhurst>1pts

Zhann: 3 points Sambucus: 2 points dan whiteside: 1 point

Quest - 3 points, stellar render here, hands down best IMO miden1138 - 2 points, nice image that wouldn't work as well without the excellent trees dan whiteside - 1 point, even thought it IS NVIT HM to MuddyGrubb for about the besy waterfall closeup I have seen. As usual a tough call between what are the coolest looking pics and what are the pics that seem to fit the challenge requirements closest. I had to try to go for something that used the trees as central to the image, not just as scenery. Awesome job as usual everyone, fantastic renders!!

It was nice to walk in The Bryce Forest you all planted :) Our favorite spots to visit; Dennisld: 3 points for his beautiful sad and lonely tree. Doublecrash: 2 points for a wonderful birds view. Alvinylaya: 1 point for being so optimistic about his lifespan. Thanks to all who made this journey possible. Willem and Madeleine

jausse - 3 - what a great setting - i love all the trees and vegetation. I also want to know how you add 300 trees and your computer doesn't choke on it. lightpen - 2 - what an imaginative use of volumetric clouds and they form the perfect backdrop for your little tree. electroglyph - 1 - there are so many cool little details in this image along with the trees. I really like the Buddha and the zen garden with the raked sand. Brycemaster become - yeah that was good! Well done everyone. Scott

Alvinylaya - 3 points Danamo - 2 points Quest - 1 point

Quest - 3 points - lifelike! Zahn - 2 points - Just like home! Steven Ray - 1 point - Ahh, Vivaldi! Honorable mentions: Swade, Zahn, alvinylaya, danamo, Ornlu, sambucus.

Sambucus = 3pts Chohole = 2pts Miden = 1pt HM's, Claymor, MuddyGrub, Eelneck Once again a tough one...:) Zhann

Alvinylaya 3 points Quest 2points Sackrat 1 point

sackrat 3pts svaelt 2pts Lightpen 1pt

Croowe - 3 Cohole - 2 Svaelt - 1 Honorable mentions: Miden1138, Sambucus, Catlin_mc, Zhann, Danamo. And then there's just so many more good ones :) Good job from everyone.

Sorry, make that "Chohole - 2"

dan whiteside:3 points(man those are the coolest trees I have ever seen) Alvinylaya:2 points zhann:1 point

I still go with my original pick: Quest - 3 points jo3l - 2 points sackrat - 1 point A hard choice though and I couldn't honestly explain why those 3 out of so many excellent entries

sackrat - 3 points jausse - 2 points ang25 - 1 point and most of them deserve the HM title, they are an awesome set of trees :)

brholte - 3 (very innovative use of the tree-lab!) Swade - 2 (a VERY nice and realistic tree) Agen Smith (The bonsai solution is so cool!)

I just don't believe how many entries there are this time! Most are absolutely fantastic and it's doing my head in choosing 3 from 68. But, Miden1138 = 1 Catlin = 2 Zhann = 3 Well done to everyone. I wish I'd had time to enter myself. The Bryster

my first voting mloates 3 points swade 2 points ang25 1 point thank you

Ok another very very tough one. I finally narrowed it down to like 50 favorites. I ended up chosing these based on if I could only get the receipes of 3 peoples trees which 3 would it be and still that only narrowed it down to like 25. So then it also came down to how the whole image looked, textures, compostion etc. Danamo - 3 points I hope he posts many of his tree receipes I was just amazed by his render. Also, I'd love to know how he made that terrain with the waterfall look like evergreen trees. Swade - 2 points I love that tree! Even if its 21 trees, I have to have that receipe! Quest - 1 point Love that spruce or whatever its called, but there are a few other trees in there that I'd also like to have the receipe for such as the scraggley ones. Too many HM's I'm afraid I'd forget someone if I tried listing them. Everyone did such an awesome job! Ang

Sambucus - 3 points Zhann - 2 points Chohole - 1 points Three incredible images among many, congratulations to all entrants, great competition. Dennis

danamo 3 pts nuski 2 pts macmondo 1 pt Thanks to DC for an interesting challenge.

3 pts - brittmccary 2 pts - scotttucker3d 1 pt - ornlu and honorable mention (and which there were more votes to go around) to Stephen Ray, danamo, Quest, cynthia399, alvinylana, Zhann, sackrat. In fact, I'm not sure there wasn't one I didn't like this time. It was especially hard for me to pick this time.

i hate it when there are too many really good ones. i feel guilty for not choosing them all. it was hard to decide on the 3-2-1 between the ones i did pick. quest - 3 points zhann - 2 points stephen ray - 1 point

Geez, am I the only one who wasn't able to participate this month? :( Hopefully this month I'll get involved again since the Online Content Site is done (shameless plug for the magazine...coming soon!) ;) Quest - 3 points MuddyGrub - 2 points Zhann - 1 point Great job everyone! MD

3- BRHolte: Flowers all made from trees?? I gotta have that recipe! 2- Swade: Just love that tree. 1- A.S.: A great bonsai tree. this was a very hard contest to vote in. I just chose the ones I thought were the most creative uses of the tree lab.

So many great choices. 3 Sparr: For getting around the limitations of not having the treelab and still producing a great image with original and unique trees. 2 brholte: For working over the treelab to make flowers. Carnations, who'da thought.... 1 Croowe: for really throwing himself into his work.

Darkpoodle - 3 ( like the trunk texture ) Sambucus - 2 ( great scene, nice touch making the tree lean ) Zhann - 1 ( reminds me of painting with acrylics )

Wow - I was surprised at all the great waterfalls. Well done everyone. 3PTS: Zhann - stunning work on the watercourse and an overall excellent forest scene. 2PTS: Danamo - yikes, all that vegetation! and I was impressed by the different techniques used to make them. Thought this image was very nicely composed and a great job on the DOF. 1PT: Sambucus - reminds me of the Dutch school of painting, especially Vermeer's "View of Delft". Honorable Mention: Stephen Ray - what a great concept.

What a difficult choice In the end I decided 3 pts...Sambucus 2 pts...Tjohn 1 pt....Jausse HM Zhann.

OK, this was a very hard challenge to judge and to come up with only 3 artists when there were so many excellent entries was a bit trying. After creating an initial list of 9 artists whose work particularly spoke to me I had to dwindle the list down by applying the guidelines and rules of the challenge and that was "the drawing of the tree" as central theme and needed to be in a landscape, lake, waterfall, forest, or woods setting. The ones that I feel best exemplify this are; Zhann -3pts. nuski -2pts. Cythia399 -1pts. Honorable mention goes to all the other great pieces but in particular; miden1138,MuddyGrub, Sackret, Chohole, mloates and Sambucus. Excellent work one and all!

Right, here are my votes: 3 - Zhann even if he doesn't like it, it makes me want to be there, enjoy the noises of nature and relax. 2 - Sambucus - very atmospheric creation. 1 - Miden1138 - I was in the fjords in Norway last week and it reminds me of the views I got there. It really is getting more and more difficult to choose. Josselin :-)