Sweet! Welcome to the forum tres. I'm sure you'll do a great job here.. and I'm still lurking around if you need any help during the transition.

Thanks everyone. I'm sure you'll still have a great time in here .. and look, the new mod has been announced. :-)

Sorry for the extra delays. I've been dealing with a number of medical issues in the family. :/

Anyway, if you would please go ahead and place your votes for your top three images in order of preference - I'll tally these up and get the results posted as soon as possible. 

Will give the voting until this Saturday and then tally them. 
Good luck everyone!!

We still have a couple weeks to go... just getting a nice ping out to the list. 
Will go and post some things in the other forums.

Expected to see more entries by now - getting close to the time to start the voting.... hmm...  see what we can do to drum up a little participation

Looks like koosievantutte agrees with the industrial vision, so if you want, we can get the next challenge started with that theme right away. 
Sound good to you both?

So very sorry. I've been away on a business trip and have had some family things going on that have kept me away from here... 
But no matter... on with the count:

In forth place, with two points: Robin9050 Tied for 3rd place, with three points each: Gunsan (Morning Confusion)
Gunsan (Another Time)

In 2nd place, with 4 points:
Tresamie

and... Tied for first place, with 6 points each:
valouchufy and koosievantutte
Valouchufy & Koosievantutte, if you two could IM each other, or discuss here a common theme or combined theme - we can post this for the Nov/Dec/Holiday challenge.

Once again you all surprise and awe me.

And again, once again - it's time to start posting your votes for your three top choices. Please vote for the image, as there may be multiple postings from the same artist.

You can post directly here in the forum, using the URL link, you can't easly post both the thumb and full size. (unless you link to both - one using the img tag the other using href).

Congrats again Kansas. Looking forward to seeing the entries with this theme.

As always, the voting for the challenge has been close the whole way. With so many awesome interpretations of the theme, it’s really a hard choice to actually choose a favorite.

I’ve said before that you’re all winners – you entered, you reached and you delivered something inspiring to others.

Now that the sucking up is done.   on to the count-down:

Tied for 5th place, with 1 point each:

valouchufy

ARTWITHIN

dialyn

koosievantutte

Tied for 4th place, with 2 points each:

0_moonfire_0

babuci

SandCastie

Chohole

Tied for 3rd place, with 3 points each:

Gunsan (entry #1)

Vikinglady

In 2nd place, with 5 points:

Gunsan (entry #2)

and finally, in 1st place, with 7 points:

Kansas

Congratulations Kansas. Please start a new thread with the theme for October.

Awesome turn out... and one that is going to be really hard to vote on.

But... vote we shall... and speaking of which. Voting is now open. Please select your top Three images and vote for them in order of Preference (1st fav, 2nd fav, etc.).

From this I'll combine the scores up (3 points for 1st choice, 2 points for 2nd, etc) and the image with the highest number of points get to select the theme for next months challenge. Voting closes Friday night - and the winner will be announced on Saturday.

Good luck to you all!!!

Quote - what are the rules? only one picture each?  must they be made especially for this challenge? must they be new? new here.

We prefer that the images are made specifically for the challenge - kind of the point, to challenge yourself to meet the theme.

As for the number of entries - you can enter as often as you like, but when it comes to voting, we ask that each person vote for the image - not the artist. So, you might actually wind up being your own worst competition. There have been a number of times where someone has come in third and fifth places. Had they done one image, they might have come in first.

However, it isn’t winning that I count as the main objective. Learning and pushing yourself to create new images and inspired works is the real challenge and benefit of the forum. If you’ve entered, you’re already a winner in my book. There is the honor of being able to set the theme for the following month’s challenge though, that’s kind of cool. See what everyone else does with your concept or idea.

great entries so far. Can almost feel the cool bite in the wind and the colors in the air. Keep 'em coming. :-)

And Hey... speaking of new Challenges. You two Tied... so if you could come up with something between the two of you via IM or whatever... and start a new thread.

If you can come up with a single common though, IM me your ideas and I'll try to blend one