**It will be 6am my time when the contest closes so I will open the voting when I get outa bed.

Voting**- Voting will take/continue for 3 days (in the Bryce Forum), unless otherwise noted and cease at 12 Midnight Renderosity Time on the Last Day of voting.

• Any Renderosity member may vote, whether they have entered the Challenge or not.

• Members cannot vote for themselves.

• 3-2-1 Voting System *

     * View all entries before voting.

     * Each voter will decide on 3 entries they personally like the best.

     * Give 3 points to your most favorite. 2 points to your next, and 1 point to your final favorite.

     * Again, voting will be done in the Bryce Forum, look for the "Vote Here" sticky thread. Votes should be posted like this;

    MemberOne - 3 points

    MemberTwo - 2 Points

    MemberThree - 1 Point

     * 3 pictures, 3 point votes, no more, no less. Anything different cannot be counted as point votes.

-  After voting is completed, the votes will be tallied, and the Winners announced in the Bryce Forum.

• The Winners will be given an award image they may use on their personal site, or however they see fit.

• In the case of any ties, the members will share the placements.

• The First Place Winner(s), will then choose  the next months theme. 

Good Luck to everyone and a huge thank you to all those who entered!!

Tough choices...all were great images.My choices are...

c-ram.................................3 points
rashadcarter....................2 points
Thandaluz........................1 point

HM's to Quest,rjay9663 and rj001

 Jebus...I f*cked up again and this time I actually finished a render...sigh...must be gettin old...brought it to the e computer but forgot to post...@#$%$#@#$%$#@!!!

 Wait a minute - I thought the deadline was midnight? By my reckoning it's now 12:23 PM Renderosity time (CST). Isn't Rendo in Tennessee?

wanda burns  3
rashadcarter   2
starbeef            1

Maybe, May on Mars has only 30 days!lol.

I was going to vote a few hours ago but held off thinking more entries might still be accepted.

Yes, I too think there should still be some time. I think bobbyStar should still be allowed to enter, as well as any others so long as they are in no later than midnight.

I agree though that it is important to get the voting done as soon as possible, so as to avoid delaying the challenge start date for next month. I for one found it hard to keep to the deadline this month as I did not learn of the contest until a bit late, well into the month of May. Hopefully we can get a winner selected and a new theme within a few days to provide more time.

Thanks for the early votes btw!!!!!!!

Bobby, my apologies and to all you guys too. I been thinking all week that Saturday was the last day of the month. Of course the 31st is today. My bad.

Bobby, post your entry and I'll sort it out.
Keep voting though. If anyone wants to change their votes I'll organise that too.

rashadcarter - 3
c-ram - 2
airflamesred - 1

Tough call, some pretty cool scenes posted :-)

I wasn't thinking that there was still one day left....saw the challenge was in voting and picked my votes.I think the others should still be allowed to enter as per deadline,I may want to adjust my votes accordingly!

Maybe I wasn't clear. Please upload your entries until the proper deadline.

 Thanks TB - just uploaded...

Wanda Burns 3 points
Rashid Carter  2 points
Dhama 1 points

This is very difficult to judge as they all were very good. Some actually tied for 2nd place and 3rd place by my reckoning.

Guess Honorable mentioned here would be great... All of the rest are this category.

 Thanks Chris...it's awaiting approval...must be the stress of your son, "The Mayor"'s big week taking it's toll, heh heh heh.. ...

I was just about to lay down my votes. But as it is Sunday, May 31, 2009 10:24 PM CST I'll wait.
BTW, I forgot to tell my background story with my post. I guess you'll just have to wonder. : }

quick voting:
3- rjay 9663
2- dhama
1- Wanda Burns

#14 Wander Burns 3
#09 Starbeef 2
#05 Thandaluz 1

HM all others.

Ok, so all the approvals are done.
Again, my apologies. It's been a heck of a 2 weeks. If you want to change your votes, please send me a site mail. I'll be checking the voting very carefully (I always do anyway) to be sure and get it right.

Please make sure you checkout ALL the entries before voting. That way everyone gets a fair go.

ALSO - THE BRYSTER'S ENTRY IS IN FACT FRANONTHEEDGE's. SHE HAD PROBS UPLOADING.

Entries are now CLOSED.

Sorry everyone will have to move down one place

3pt  Dan Whiteside
2pt  Orbital
1pt  Quest
 

H.Ms to
Wanda Burns
rjay 9663
rj001
grafikeer
thandulaz
Dhama
rashadcarter

c-ram = 3
Quest = 2
rashadcarter = 1

 Well..... an awesome challenge and hard to choose but here are my faves:

1...#14   Wanda Burns    3 points

2...#6     rj001                    2 points

3...#7     Quest                   1 point

My votes are as follows:

1.dhama                 3 points
2.Dan Whiteside     2 points
3.rashadcarter        1 point

HM
grafikeer
orbital
rj001
Quest
Wanda Burns

Thank you Lown for a great challenge. This was fun.

Another excellent theme (thanks Lown) and some great images. Congrats to all that entered!

Wanda Burns  #14- 3 pts
RJ001  #6 - 2 pts
Rashadcarter  #17 - 1 pt

HM - Orbital, Thandaluz, Starbeer (loved the fizzy orange pool), Grafikeer  and rjay9663

3points C-ram
2points rashadcarter
1point grafikeer

This was a very,very hard vote!! Orbitol, rj001, jiyu, rjay9663 and quest also desrved points but i can only vote for three!!!!
Well done to everyone,  excellent entries all round!!!

Quote - rashadcarter - 3
c-ram - 2
airflamesred - 1

Tough call, some pretty cool scenes posted :-)

After reviewing the entries that came after I voted (sorry about that) - I will leave mine as is.

 Wanda Burns - 3
rashadcarter - 2
bobbystahr - 1

orbital - 3
rj001 - 2
rashadcarter - 1.

rashadcarter -3
orbital-2
wanda burns-1

so many good pictures hard to choose.

grafikeer   1
rashadcarter  2
rjay9663  3

HM's (alphabetically listed)
bobbystahr
dan whiteside
orbital

3 Rashadcarter      Nice set up and design.

1. Dhama     Interesting POV.
2. Quest    Nice natural light.

rashadcarter - 3
rj001 - 2
dan whiteside - 1

This was terrible. A lot of good entries to choose, all of them excellent in different ways.

In case anyone should vote for me. I change my user name. I am now vncnt9663. Vincent is my real name. Rjay is not. It's a long story and I won't get into it here.

I don't care what your name is. Vote already! ;-)

C-Ram -Excellent realism overall, including detail and Bryce modeling. Excellent light and reflections.  Your wisely chosen low saturation color palette adds greatly to the realism. Excellent posing, though not essential to this challenge, it is still a noteworhty job! 3pt

Orbital- Excellent application of light to tell the story of the scene! Fantastic Bryce modeling. Gorgoeus mood. Arresting energy.  Powerful result. 2pt

Dan Whiteside- Simply brilliant implementation of IBL for an indoor situation! You never fail to inspire me. I would expect nothing less. Modeling and all other details are absolutely superb! 1pt

So much excellent work! I'm hardly content with the ordering of my choices, as I find myself extremely torn and my opinions seem to change based upon the whim of my mood.  With the same enthusiasm I would love to have also acknowledged the craft demonstrated by Dhama, Wanda, vncnt9663, Grafikeer, Bobbystar, Quest, rj001, and others.  All of the various genres represented here make voting with any confidence essentially impossible.

Thanks again to Lown for choosing this theme! You brought out alot of different ideas and exposed alot of potential for Bryce as a software!

rashadcarter - 3 pts
Wanda Burns - 2 pts
Quest - 1 pts

Excellent entries lots of tough choices.

Rashadcarter : 3 points
C-ram              :  2 points
Grafikeer         : 1 point

Thanks to all of you for your comments on my post specialy to rashadcarter... it's great to see my work appreciate by a bryce master...

Here is my vote:

Rashadcarter    3pts
Wanda burns    2pts
Dhama               1pts

Again another tough choice to make. For some reason it seems to be getting harder to decide on the winners.

RashadCarter  #17 – 3 points
Wanda Burns #14 -2 points
Dhama #8 – 1 point

H.M. to Orbital, BobbyStahr, Dan Whiteside, rj001, Grafikeer, Vangogh and Thanduluz. Congratulations to all.
 

Anyone else? I'm about to close the voting.

If I may make a suggestion, those who have entered but have not voted should be sent an email to ask them to vote (incase they have missed the voting thread...

OR

They should be eliminated from the challenge.

I'm really pissed off that people who are willing to enter the challenge are not prepared to see it through and vote as well.

Dhama, that dog wont hunt. 

Voting is closed. This thread is locked. Thanks to all of you who took the trouble to vote. I will be posting the results shortly.