stormchaser,

Sure, go ahead and enter it.  The "prize" is getting to choose the next month's theme.  The theme can range from silly to sublime.  I remember the summer that somebody chose "hotdogs"!!!  I entered 5 haiku and someone modeled a hotdog and there may even have been an overheated pooch amid the barbecue scenes.  Theme such as "Dignity" or "Peace" might inspire something a bit loftier in the way of artistic accomplishment.

The real prize is actually finishing something that's been in the folders or using an item that we bought 3 years ago! *:chuckle:

*TheBryster,

New work is encouraged, but the rules allow for older pieces.  If I've used something for one challenge, I won't reuse it for another (my personal decision), but might link  to encourage others.  A few months ago, we had "Chaos" as a theme.  I'd done an image representing the butterfly effect far earlier for a different challenge.  I wrote a minitut on how the effect was achieved, because randomness is really hard to create, and just linked to it as an example.  Other times I've used previously created work.  The pine I'm entering now was photographed in the early 70s (it died in 1976, during our drought), and I inked it when living in Coarsegold (1982-86).  I'd have to check my records to see what year it was copyrighted, since the half-brain is a bit fuzzy.  (I am disabled with a permanent migraine.)  For this contest, I've scanned and cleaned and framed it so it lives again.