Having been part of the Bryce contest in the past (and a one-time winner), I can only say that such a contest is a GREAT thing. It does push one to learn new stuff and develop one's own creativity. It may be necessary to have another forum simply for the entries due to the potentially high volume of entries. The mods can decide that stuff though. In my mind the success or failure will have a lot to do with the creativeness of the topics. As evidenced by recent long threads there are different ideas around here as to what makes a good image. Not to knock the "portrait" type images in the gallery, but there are many of this type of picture which are done. Hopefully the contest will require more in the way of setting and story than a portrait usually does. Anyway, great idea! Chris