3pts - shadowdragonlord 2pts - SndCastic 1pt - bragova and i agree with tresamie and wish i could add some more points...

it's not easy, but ericthegreat shows us that it's possible to let it shine :-). i look forward to see many lights shining here.

#1 tresamie #2 undisclosed designer #3 nilla

this was my first fractal contest too! congratulations to fran, your image was my favorite. and thanks to all who voted.

#3 3 pts #12 2 pts #21 1 pt

oh, and THANKS for the compliment! :-) thanks for taking the time to look in my gallery. it is smaller now, but still there :-)

hmatienzo, yes it was a joke... the server did not really get faster because i deleted some of my images ;-). but i did not delete them all... and surely will upload some new ones. but not as much as before, because it is also true that renderosity sells no more prints since a long time and so i can get nothing from posting fractals here. i don't see any reason to pay for just share images. this brings nothing at all. and i also agree with miche. it will not bring more space or less traffic, and it will also not bring any money IMO, it can only bring more galleries because it is easy to sign up with a few nicknames to avoid the payment for more than one upload per day. i have my own homepage with free server space and no advertising, i know some other good places to post fractals. and for me it's not really necessary to post here with a bad feeling of "sophielerlei is always too much".... i don't want to say goodbye and all this... we just will see how it comes further. i'm not away, and you know now where you find my work, even to buy for your home if you want :-)

ok, i deleted the biggest part of my gallery and ... oops... it's getting faster! lol ;-). i understand that r'osity gets nothing from my postings here, and that i get nothing from posting here either... so if someone misses some of my fractals, they are at http://zazzle.com (all comments are welcome there too :-)) where i get a check every month for the posters and cards i can sell there. it's a really good thing with this money, i send it all to the children's hunger relief fund. sorry for not having noticed earlier that i am just a weight for this server. :-(

thanks, luc. it's really fun and easy :-). i just miss the possibility to make own color gradients, but except of this it is addictive ;-).

you are still right. BUT the attack came from fraktal_freak herself against those people (like me also) who looked at her image and did NOT comment. ok, honestly i did not comment because i don't like the image. and my suggestion for improvement of the reactions you can read in my posting some hundreths above this one ;-). i just think this is not the right way to get sympathies, that's all. if everyone would act this way, post an image and shout around that everybody MUST write comments, and then complain if the comments are just honestly and not only applause, this could be the pure chaos! because there are thousands of very good works that deserve much more attention than this one became with just shouting around. i think it's a pity that human reactions are so. it's a pity that this kind of provocation is such successful in our community! she got 8 votes in the hot twenties! so i don't understand what her problem is. there are hundreths of images who are hundred time better than this one! but i think if one wants to be a good artist, then it is still necessary (like in the "real life" too) to give much more real OWN work on the product - that shows! this is my suggestion for the improvement of the image @ fraktal_freak: get a fractal program and make your OWN work, make it as good as you can, take enough time to do this until the result is beautiful and not pixelated or kitschy, and believe in the good in the people who try to understand what you want to say with your image. and if you want to get love and sympathy you cannot do this with thorns of hate in your soul and in your words! everything you give from yourself to this world comes back to you somehow sometime. this was my suggestion from the beginning on. i do not mean it to offend, just for help, and it's my honest opinion, not more.

sorry, this posting was for dobbelcheese

ok, you are right. renderosity is not only for artists. but no one here has a problem with the posting from fraktal_freak. SHE seems to have a problem with having feedback! i will miss her too, because i would like to see more of her collages... just to find out where she get the images from that she uses without any credits. because i have the impression that the background fractal is not rendered by her, also the other picures she used look like picked up somewhere from the internet. and i would like to see if all her images can reach the top of the top twenty with this "flaming" method. it's a very interesting psychological phenomene here... ;-) i think wojtek is right. the whole thing here is just a method to get attention. and i bet she still follows this discussion because THIS is what lisa wants - to get attention! we all know since the kindergarten that FRIENDSHIP is nothing one can get with shouting and stamp! this is the subject, and not if the gallery is only for artists. if you read the rules from renderosity you can find that we all agreed not to post someone elses work and not to "spite" to eachother. now look at this story here - was it a test??? we all took the lure and our reactions are like expected. did you notice?

now i see: writing some unfriendly words into the forum and under the own image brings more views to a kitschy thing in a few days than i can get in two years on all my images together. this fact makes me think about deleting my gallery and just let one image (the worst one!) in it at once (this is more efficient, isn't it?). i try to learn from everybody. so we can learn how to get a lot of attention with less work on images ;-). anyway, this makes me thoughtful about human reactions on aggression in general. btw... lisa: you forgot to check the violence button!