wow! what a great response to May's Challenge, Reflections/Refractions!!
with an all time record of 106 entries!! ...atm
Thank you to everyone who participated!

if you haven't taken the time to look, here's the link,
(same as what's in the photo banner box at the top of the page)
*Please note! the NEW THUMBNAIL SIZE!
100 WIDE X 80 TALL exactly!!
to fit new challenge page format (update made to challenge tutorial here)

After reviewing the excellent discussion posted recently on "Lack of Comments!"

We have decided to make a few CHANGES to the CHALLENGE
*entries will now be limited to 2 entries !
so make them count, explore, think & decide on your best ones :]
quality vs. quantity! :D

If you noticed we had a banner in the photo gallery header to highlight the Challenge, this has been replaced to now highlight the Last Week in the Gallery (LWitG) which we'll be showcasing soon! We do believe this will cut down on wading through challenge posts & the "hit&runs"

The majority would still like to pick the topic & post for discussion
*if you specifically want critique on your entry ASK for it
suggestions for new themes will be considered

Here are the TOPICS to pick from:

1. Song titles (please keep in mind not to post full lyrics)
2. Antiques/nostalgic moods
3. Exploring the 5 senses (sight, sound, smell, touch & taste)
4. Working (wo)man/industrial
5. Monochromatic (one color + b&w)
6. Still Life
7. Self-Portraiture
8. Alphabet Soup (find objects that are shaped or represent a letter in the English alphabet without using signs or text!)

PREVIOUS THEMES:
reflection/refractions - May 2005
night - April 2005
social issues - March 2005
opposites - Feb 2005
dreams - Jan 2005
signs - Dec 2004
mornings - Nov 2004
Time Exposure - Oct 2004
Speed - Sept 2004
Glass - Aug. 2004
Food - July 2004
Soft Focus - June 2004
No Postwork - May 2004
Secrets Revealed - April 2004
Wet - March 2004
Light - Feb. 2004
Emotions - Jan 2004
Still Life - Dec 2003
Surrealism - Nov 2003
Blue - Oct 2003
Rust - Sept 2003
The Elements - Aug 2003
Abstraction - July 2003
Night - June 2003
Repetition - May 2003
Do You Hear What I See? - April 2003

Challenge Series Rules

• All entries must be comprised of original photographic images created by the entrant.
• Post work in any photo editing and/or paint program is acceptable and encouraged... However, the use of royalty free images, or the addition of characters and/or objects created in a modeling program is not. This is a photography challenge :)
• All images should be uploaded in JPEG format following the size limits recommended by Renderosity gallery guidelines.
• It is encouraged that images for each challenge should be photographed after the entry start date and before the finish date.
• You may submit up to 2 images per person. No clone account entries will be accepted!
• Images that do not conform to the Renderosity TOS will be deemed ineligible and shall be deleted.

Entry Guidelines
You may post your images to the forum or a link to a gallery image here on Renderosity. No off-site links please.
Also please post a thumbnail 100 wide X 80 tall, and under 15 KB.
Remember to include Photo Challenge Entry and the month in the message title. (eg. Subject:Monthly Challenge Entry for June)
Remember this is supposed to be fun! There are no winners or losers, as we will NOT BE VOTING on these entries, but we will be discussing them in the forum. This may include technical issues, theme compatibility, etc.

Message edited on: 05/29/2005 22:58

opps we had "still life"... strike that one! lol down to 7 choices unless you really want to do that one again, we can :]

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thanks doug makes reading all the little type easier... :D

could i get just a little clarification on one please :) antiques/nostalgic mood...i'm not seeing the connection between the two. if i vote for this challenge, what exactly is a "nostalgic" mood as opposed to any other kind of mood? do you mean like looking back and remembering something...a picture of a memory? just seems a little bit vague and i wanna kinda clarify what that means. thanks a bunch!!! :)

what i was thinking on that sheila is instead of showing some old rocking chair or antique thingamajig, do it with a feel for the time, give the object emotion, transport the viewer to that time period... like that :]

I would like a challenge that depicts the haves and have-nots.. But this is not a choice here.(But I do think it would be quite a challenge to get a good one) Maybe somethime int the future? Whatever is decided here is most cool w/me. I sau any of the above but song titles...aand that's no vote ;-)"-) /Jeff :-)

ah....gotcha! thanks, Cindy! eeeny meeny miney mo....sounds interesting, Cindy...almost voted for that one, but i wanna go EXPLORING!!!! I vote for... THE FIVE SENSES!!! :)

Hey jeff....why not pick one and then your vote is counted. LOL

I picked any but song titles...doesn't that count? If not then how 'bout .... "Still Life"? Thanks, _coolj001jeff

sounds good...

talking about the antiques & warm fuzzies makes me want to do that now.. so there you go :]

The 2 image limit is going to really raise the bar on the submissions...make us think more (what a challenge is all about!) The 5 senses sounds COOL to me!

Okay, what's wrong with song titles? I had "I'm a bitch" all picked out JK!LOL:) Seriously, I like the Alphabet soup, but I'm easy and could go with any of them. A couple of suggestions for future challenges: Underground Grace Natures Fractals

I see the "High Five Senses" as being difficult...so...I opt for that choice.

Now this is excellent!! I love these new rules!! 2 entries is great cos, right now, it's far too much!! There's entries all over the place, also from people who just pop in to post and ciao bye bye never hear from them anymore!! So annoying!! Love the idea of the banner change too!! Let's not advertise too much for the challenge huh! ;) LOL!! As for next month challenge, I'll go with the 5 senses too!!

OOOH OOOOH OOOH, i can smell a favorite already...and seeing how i dont want to swim against the currant i shall lay my vote on 5 senses too...YAY! Hmmm...since "sight" is one of those senses...shouldnt any object that is visible to my eyes count???

shouldnt any object that is visible to my eyes count???

if the choice is SENSES... let's keep it difficult & challenging... what is the message? am i just looking at a photo through your eyes or are you saying something about eyesight, how bout the loss of vision? how about combining the senses... taking a picture & saying this speaks about the sense of vision cuz it's what i see is NON-SENSE!! & will probably be critiqued as such :D scowling Message edited on: 05/30/2005 12:41

MY GOD WOMAN!!! I was trying to be sassy...sigh...well shouldnt wander to deep into your territory i suppose #:op "NON-SENSE".....ROFLMAO!!! Now that is just too darn cheeky, lol. #:oD

Message edited on: 05/30/2005 12:51

LOL... wise@ss.. yes... but you'd be surprised at how many will really think like that so i don't want to encourage it, hopefully that won't happen ...much :p just putting out some ideas... no offense... ;]

Hi, well I would also go for the 5 senses....(although some people would claim to have more than 5, how they would capture them I am not sure). I think it'll be good, just have to rely on people (me included) being a bit more creative with the idea, thinking outside the box and all that kinda stuff.
David edit: do I see still life as already being done in Dec03, way before my time here, I know it could be pretty broad in subject matter. I sure there is a reason, just pointing it out cowering DY

Message edited on: 05/30/2005 16:29

true!! better make that 6 senses! ESP, deja vu, premonition & all that... we can brainstorm as we go... lots to explore with this one... i'm harmless, no need to cower brandishing sparkley rhinestone paddle about... right andreas? :] yes i noticed that after putting it up there, nothing saids we can't redo stilllife... good practice for lighting & composition

Message edited on: 05/30/2005 16:37

Right Cindy...that paddle is reserved for me i reckon, LOL. #:op

Yes it is Zacko....and, did You know...I am the Chief Disciplinarian for the Boy's...sigh after I am finished with You....I may just call You....Whacko...evil grin

yup, all good, still life would be interesting, as would all the subject I spose, but my vote of course is still for the senses. I was just thinking (tough job), reading about sharks with electroreception (detection of ambient electric fields and stuff) and I know crocs/aligators have extra chemoreceptors, how this relates back to photography, not sure> actually not sure at all, but I'm sure the senses could evoke some interesting responses. anyway, enough rambling, lol Andreas, I should have guessed :)

LOL@David!! "I was just thinking (tough job)" I like that one! ;)

Wow I just spent half hour reading the "lack of comments" post! I totally missed that. Tells you how much time I have to spend in the forum. Seems like there are so many things to consider and think about. I really am thankful to all of you that make this site work as well as it does. As for me I do the best I can juggling four businesses, ten houses, and fourteen partners to come to daily consensus with. I hope you all can accept my limited comments and contribution. I value all of your time spend making this a wonderful place to learn, share and escape when I need to; You all have become a second family to me:}

Oh... one more thing I vote for Exploring the 6 senses.

Message edited on: 05/30/2005 18:11

absolutely jim!! we value you too! shall i bring out the dancing "we are family" aliens again? :D let's see... so far we have... 7 exploring the 5/6 senses 1 alphabet soup 1 still life 1 antiques/nostalgia 1 workin man/indus new suggestions noted still have another day...

I'll tell you what my idea is if Exploring Five Senses gets chosen. I've been wanting to take pictures blind. seriously i've been wondering what would happen if i lost my eyesight and became unable to shoot. would i still be able to take pictures? Well, we all know Beethoven was able to compose music after he became deaf. 'course he was genius...LOL! but, i've been wanting to explore this for awhile. this would be a good excuse if it gets chosen.

Hi all, sorry been quite, WORK work and more work... Working man/woman gets my vote. Steve

I think that conveying one of the 5 senses is not to be blind,but to take a photo to represent a sense.To show a depiction of what the sense does. This will be a hard one if picked. I hope that a lot of thought goes into it. For instance not just a photo of a food item for taste.Or a picture of a speaker for hearing.I would like to hear some ideas from people on what they percieve this to be. Or is that cheating LOL

Doug, i disagree. taking my self portrait of myself blind would definitely represent a sense on two levels. I would show what it feels like to have something tied around my eyes and be blinded (LaCK OF SIGHT). AND i would be taking the picture WITHOUT using one of my senses. ok, let's take the sense of TASTE. I can see myself taking my self portrait of me, again blinded...doing, say for instance...a TASTE TEST!! Hah! what a challenge to take the picture blindfolded! a non-blind folded idea: smell: capture an old style perfume bottle which is being sprayed. show the mist in the air. that's enough from me. i'm sleepy. nighty night guys. :)

Hi guys.Personally I could go for most of them,and the 5 senses and Cindy's nostalgia idea would be fun.But I loved doing my self-portrait recently because it was so very challenging to do so.(Although doing another would be twice as hard now...).And I like the idea of 'seeing' everybody and how they represent themselves.By the same token,having only done one or two in the past I like the challenge of still life as well.But I would suggest limitations on it,such as the shot must be of composed objects that the photographer has arranged, otherwise 'still life' can be way too broad.I would definately not like to do working man/woman.That one holds zero interest to me.I could do it but really don't find that exciting at all.Oh,and monochrome(B&W) still seems a bit broad as well.How long do I have to decide my vote.Today?

Hi Marlene... yes... you have till midnight today, RR time Good point on still life... noted. :] sorry Sheila, we misundeerstood you... thought you meant taking a pic with your eyes closed :P got it now, a self portrait with a blindfold would get the idea across :D

I like all of the topics, but 5 senses seems most interesting for this coming month.

Even though the general tide seems to be for the 5 senses,I'm going to pick still life.But that's because it already gave me an idea.So I'm going to try to do one anyway.So thter's my vote!

Alphabet Soup!!! Alphabet Soup Alphabet Soup

Antiques/Nostalgia. I like the idea of communicating something emotional as well as visual. Carolly

I vote again for still life...that should add another?

Just curious...but...what exactly are the Five Earthly Senses? I think it is a wee bit different where I Originally come from.

sight, smell, touch, hear & taste & won't forget the 6th sense!

Here is one Vote for Song Titles, if only to keep Cynlee happy...and I happen to like that choice, too. No comment on the new rules...will see how it works out. TomDart.

8 exploring the 5/6 senses 2 alphabet soup 2 still life 2 antiques/nostalgia 2 workin man/indus 1 song titles & the the 5/6 senses have it! Good luck.. & have fun exploring & shooting for the new challenge! :]

Woohoo!! Cool! Very inspiring!! ;)

I counted 8 senses a few years ago. I even recorded my thoughts about it in a journal. AFter reading it last night...I added another one...Now I count nine senses. Sounds like a cool challenge exploring the 5/6 senses. :-)

LOL@Jeff!! Can we have a list plz! ;)

If you please Pascale...but I will be embarrased :-)

LOL!! Go on! We can take it! Can u? ;P

ok...i will in a while...i must eat first :-)

Deep Thoughts of Seven Senses. 04/27/03 Heart (Love) Soul Touch Taste Smell See Hear 6th Sense ...I guess that's only 8. Sorry to take so long ot respond.

Ooooooooooooooooh! That's what u were talking about!!! Geez man!! What took u so long indeed! O_o LOL!!