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Its that time again. Vote for your favorite images in this thread below. Vote for 3 different images and vote for first, second, and third place. Please be careful about your votes because, as I've said before, I confuse easily. You must chose 3 different images, and you must assign 3 points to your favorite, 2 points to your second favorite, and 1 point to your third favorite. Post by artist name (not the image number) as follows: curmudgeon - 3 bludgeon - 2 sludgeon - 1 I will tally the points and announce the winner on Friday. Theme: This challenge is about the family concept. Show us your poser family in a traditional way: A Happy-Family Studio Portrait.. Your family could be human or any creature, minumum 3 actors in it, mother-father-child.. As you wish, you can add grannies or other brothers-sisters Postwork, imported models, backgrounds etc...all ok. Artistic aspect is more important than technical.. Feel free to post your comments about the images. Make your vote clear so that I can spreadsheet it. Best wishes to all. Be sure to click "next" at the bottom of the challenge page because there are two pages of images to look at. Winner picks the theme for next month (and that might mean March this time, but I digress).

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I will say that there is liberty on the "traditional way". If you want to read more on the theme, see the link above. Thanks.

Here are my votes, anyway, traditional or not: A - 3 (beacause I too loved Ringu) munaza - 2 (great concept) Skyangel - 1 (because even Poser5 family needs a portrait;))

My votes > pstekky 3. (I love the cheeky gremlins and the poses and the lighting and all of it.) MistDragon 2 (A new baby always pulls on the heart strings and the parents are looking at it so adoringly. The whole picture ozzes family and love.) mariademirel 1 (It reminds me of an old fashioned portrait where the people were not supposed to smile)

Ah, gee, I guess Sludgeon didn't enter this time! I was so looking forward to his family portaits of slime molds (how many genders?). 3 - munaza The shadows are great, the lighting is interesting, the composition is excellent. 2 - elv The gothic set-up is nicely handled. It does look like a family... although not quite the way Sargent would have painted them. ;^) 1 - mariademirel Nice composition and coloring, and a sense of real family.

3 mariademirel 2 A 1 skyangel

3 solitary 2 marcfx 1 skyangel

PandaPride - 3 munaza - 2 marcfx - 1 great work everybody! :)

3-LotusX 2-patiaz 1-Johndalynne

23 gets 3 # 31 gets 2 # 22 gets 1

pookah69-3 Syyd-2 mindy6886-1

Dr-B 3 Syyd 2 LadyByron 1 Enough Traditional Family Already :-)

Syyd - 3 Redhawk - 2 Billi - 1

#22 = 3 (beautiful!) #21 = 2 (way cool image) #13 = 1 (great job on this)

Syyd 3 Marcfx 2 LotusX 1

Redhawk = 3 lotusX = 2 skyangel = 1 It was difficult to choose just 3, they are all great entries, good luck to everyone.

#25 =1 #23 = 2 #5 = 3

3-A or # 7 2-mistdragon 1-fiction2002

PandaPride - 3 Pstekky - 2 Skyangel - 1

03 munaza 19 redhawk 13 johndalynne pretty cool #13 good luck

Skyangel-#25 MistDragon-#23 munaza-#30

Please vote by user name because that is how I spreadsheet it. I do not go by image number. Thanks. Also, Remember to assign points to the name. I cannot guess what points you want unless they are assigned. If your vote above doesn't look like this: curmudgeon - 3 bludgeon - 2 sludgeon - 1 Then I probably don't know how to count it. Thanks.

Mariademirel - 3 Skyangel - 2 Munaza - 1 Nice work to all the artist.

Marcfx - 3 Syyd - 2 SageFlower - 1

hey there, what a nice challenge with lots of entries and how difficult to choose between them.. well well.. PandaPride - 3 (you can fell the the happiness they have, beautiful angle and light..) Skyangel - 2 (what a nice poser family, and visible relationship, very very good post work) Munaza - 1 (to serve the feeling via shadow is a very creative idea) And i must say to Syyd and RedHawk, I admire your art work.. 31 entries and no bad one, incredible.. bravo all the participant artists..

munaza - 3 patiaz - 2 Skyangel - 1

mariademirel - 3 marcfx - 2 pstekky - 1 And may I say I like each one for completely different reasons. Mariademirel - I love the composition, the expressions, the mood of the image. I just think it's all round something that would immediately remind me of family portraits I've had to endure as a kid. Pstekky - Thank you for making me spew coffee over my monitor. :D Markfx - I love that image. It was a toss-up between your and mariademirel's image for me. That elephant on the right... looks like it's going to walk out of that picture. Lovely. Truly lovely. :)

PandaPride - 3 Mariamus - 2 Skyangel - 1

pandapride - 3 skyangel - 2 mistdragon - 1 Everyone did a fantastic job on their portraits.

pstekky - 3 elv - 2 skyangel - 1

What a great time i have had in my first contest, so many inspiring images from you all, so thankyou. My first place vote goes to: LadyByron = 3 pts Such a wonderful use of lighting. RedHawk = 2 pts Great artwork. Skyangel = 1 pt A great use of media in the image. Well done to all of you :)

LotusX 3 pstekky 2 munaza 1

Skyangel = 3 mistdragon = 2 brokenwings = 1

What a wonderful challenge! And my computer is broke down, and could not participate :(... but I do enjoyed very much those great submittions! A --- 3 ... because I like that style pooka69 ---2 .. because it brought back memories about my beautiful grandmother who in her lifetime sufferend so much, and still had the energy to bring joy to her family munanza -- 1 ... because it is so creative... and so sad..

1st place: A_ (7) 2nd Place: LotusX (22) 3rd Place: Marcfx (3)

Voting closed on Thursday night, January 29, at midnight 'osity server time per the challenge page. I will tally tonight. Best wishes to all.

Skyangel - 20 pandapride - 17 munaza - 16 LotusX - 13 6 votes not counted because I could not figure them out. 2 votes not according to the system, but it was clear what they voted for.

Congrats Skyangel - well done to all.

CONGRATS TO SKYANGEL AND ALL THAT TOOK PART. I had a great time and i'm looking forward to the next one. have a great weekend. regards Marc AKA marcfx

WOW ! what a surprise ! Thank you for your votes everyone and thank you to all for the great competition. I personally think that it was a very hard contest to chose only 3 from so many beautiful entries. Congratulations also to PandaPride. Munaza and LotusX. Great work everyone !

3 to marcfx (you sure that's not a photo??) 2 to solitary (unicorns are perrrrrrrrtyyyyyyy) 1 to GraphicShaun (horsies are pretty too!)

Just so ya know .. the contest is over for those who are still voting :D ... CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who participated and especially to those who won .. I would have voted myself, but my father went into the hospital for an emergency brain surgery (he's fine now) -Misty

yeah, marcfx told me that when he messaged me to thank me for my late vote to him heheh ah well :p wish your father well for us, i doubt there's anyone here who's not glad he's fine now :)