Would rather exclude darker elements like violence and if its goth or nudity the artist might need to ask the person they are dedicating it to first to see if it would be appropriate...the idea here is for honoring someone's memory but also to do it in such a way that it fits a common theme that the community itself may select each year.If you are doing this for a non member,then it would be at your sole discretion save for violence and images of suicide (just to clarify in case anyone asks). In my case,people who dedicated images to me on behalf of my mother can look in my gallery to see what would be appropriate...but if they bypass me and dedicate to my mother they were very respectful-they also looked at what I wrote about her and did the images to reflect what they saw in my words. As for talent...to me a beginner should have as much a chance to win as a pro and maybe it shouldn't be limited to poser but would have catagorys for 2D seperate from 3D-and judged seperately?To honor one's lost loves to me is in itself reward enough...but a contest also allows merchants to contribute and show support for the community.For this reason it could be stipulated that only images that were done throughout the year would be allowed or maybe one new one and one previous image would be allowed. As Chris states...what do you think

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