Thanks geoegress, for pointing me to this challenge. I just posted a bw portrait which was created in Poser with a bit of PSP work...here it is for the contest.  [ http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1883742](http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1883742) and a smaller version for the thread:

I've been doing more and more in black and white. I think it brings in emotion and drama.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854