Andrea, I agree with snowcrow1, your entry is great! It looks like your sawfly is going to take flight at any moment. :)

I knew I had three days left, so I finished my entry late last night. I did a mixed medium artwork. I pasted the link to my artwork in the mixed medium forum, but I wanted to show you all that I participated in the activity too, so I'm going to paste the link here too. Here's the link: My Little Animals

Cool idea Andrea.
Very nice work Deenamic.

Thank you X-PaX! :)

Dear Deanamic,

I am sending to you new photo..... hoping you are well !

Marian

Hi Marian! I'm doing great! I had a nice relaxing weekend. I hope you're doing well too! I like your photo! When I look at it, I think of all things that are white and fluffy, such as snow, cotton, lambswool, clouds, and etc. I like how the light and fluffy material plays against the dark tone and coarseness of the brick. I want to reach out and touch everything in your photo. :)

Dear Deenamic,

Thank you for your sensitive comment. I appreciate it much. There are seeds of poplar. Taken in Germany (Leipzig) this Sunday.

Have a good night, day will finish, at least in Prague,

Marian

Dear Deenamic,

maybe this image of Parsley root could be interesting.

Enjoy this day,

Marian

I like it Marian, it's a very interesting photo! It tricks your mind. One minute it looks like a parsley root and another minute it looks like a bunch of worms coming out of a hole and if you turn your head and look at the photo again it looks like a nest. You're capturing some good stuff. I would like you and everyone in this thread to know that The Unusual Subjects now has its own gallery! You're free to use any medium you want to create your images for the activity now. You can find out more about the gallery and June's unusual subject at this link: The Unusual Subjects - June 2016 I hope you and everybody on here are having a wonderful day! :)

I'm sending out a sitemail about the new gallery and I thought I better copy and paste part of the sitemail here too. Here it is:

 

I just wanted to let you know that The Unusual Subjects activity has its own gallery now. You're free to use whatever medium you want in your images and you're free to enter more than one image now. You can find The Unusual Subjects Gallery by going to the top of the website and clicking on the Galleries tab and then clicking on Sections. You will see Unusual Subjects towards the bottom of the page in between TrueSpace and VistaPro. You can still link to or post your images in the photography and mixed medium forums too. I think we'll have an easier time seeing each other's work now in the gallery. If you created an image for the activity in May or June and would like to move it to the gallery, then you're free to do so. I have pasted a link to the gallery below. Oh yeah, I forgot to say that June's unsusual subject is The Living Room, just in case you decide to enter an image this month. If you have any questions about the gallery, this activity, or anything else, then feel free to send me a sitemail. I hope you're having a wonderful weekend! :)

 

The Unusual Subjects Gallery

 

A few members were getting confused about what images in the Unusual Subjects Gallery were for the monthly challenge and which ones weren't, so the non-challenge related images will now be moved to their correct gallery. I think some members may not know what the Unusual Subjects Gallery is for, so to make it a little clearer that the gallery is for a monthly challenge i would like to ask you all if you can put the title of your entries in this format, Your Title - "Month" Unusual Subjects Entry, so it should look like this, The Dark Room - June Unusual Subjects Entry. If you have any questions about this or anything pertaining to the challenge, then feel free to leave a comment below or sitemail me. I hope you all are having a wonderful week!

I started a new thread with some new Unusual Subjects information in it, but I thought I should add it here too. Here it is:

New Unusual Subjects Information

 

Hello everybody! The Unusual Subjects Challenge is constantly evolving and I thought I should update the rules and information for the challenge. The background history of the challenge is still the same. For those that don't know what the challenge is about, then here's a snippit of what it is about. I asked coordinators, moderators, and members for various subject matter, it could be a word, a phrase, an emotion, a scene, a place, an object, or etc. and every month I type those subjects into the randomizer on Random.org and whatever subject it chooses is the subject matter you have to use or create in your image for that month. Now it's time for me to introduce the new changes to the challenge, the challenge now has two categories and they are:

1. Fixed Theme - This is basically the original challenge. A subject will be chosen via Random.org and members will have to incorporate the subject in their images.

2. Open Theme - This is for members that don't want to be constrained by a subject, but want to capture or create their own unsusual subjects.

When you have finished your images and you're ready to upload them, you can upload them to the Unusual Subjects Gallery (Link: The Unusual Subjects Gallery) or you can upload them or paste a gallery link to them in the Unusual Subjects thread for that month in the Photography or Mixed Medium Forums. There's no right or wrong location to upload your images, you should upload to whatever location is easier for you to access. Now it's time to get down to the nitty gritty, the rules, here they are:

 

Rules

1. Any member from any genre can enter the challenge and create their image using any medium they like.

2. Each member will have a month to capture or create a new image or images for whichever category they choose.

3. Each member can enter however many images they want.

4. I know I changed the title format for the images recently, but I've decided to change it again so we'll all know what images are fixed theme or open theme. When you enter your images, your titles should look like this or something similar to this: Your Title - Month Fixed Theme or Your Title - Month Open Theme. You no longer have to put Unusual Subjects Entry in the title, because everyone will hopefully start to realize what the Unusual Subjects Gallery is for.

5. Members can upload their images to the Unusual Subjects Gallery or Photography and Mixed Medium Forums at any time during the month.

 

So there it is, The Unusual Subjects is going to get even more fun and exciting! I hope to see the same familiar members enter their amazing images and give awesome comments to their fellow members about their images and I hope to see some new members too! Until next time, keep your images unusual! :)