Hi everyone! When I participated in my first challenge, I swore to myself that, if I ever won, I'd choose the theme "Inspired by a book". I've changed my mind. I just wrote this in the hope that some of the future winners will take this subject, ehm :) I think the spirit of the challenge is to learn, exactly like we all did with Zhann's DTE theme, so I decided to go absolutely selfish and propose a challenge on the Bryce issue I feel the most uneasy about: Trees, treelab, vegetation and nature scenes. I say "selfish" because I just want to learn the more I can from all the fantastic ideas, things and techniques that will surely come out. So, I would say: the purpose of the August challenge will be to create a nature scene (landscape, forest, wood, lake, desert, you name it) using the proper Bryce tools: the TreeLab and the SkyLab. The scene must be lit "naturally" (this means by Bryce sunlight and Bryce sky and Bryce atmosphere) and must contain at least one original Tree (or bush or shrub) created in the treelab... a tree that, hopefully, will go (as a model or as a tree-setting screenshot to be copied) in the Forum archives at the end of the challenge exactly as the DTE mats of this month's. I decided this because I realized that Bryce Box has the writing "LANDSCAPE GENERATOR" on it and I have no more than 2 or 3 landscapes in my whole gallery, and that 90% of my pictures are lit with "disabled sunlight and atmosphere off", and that I'm a total ignorant when it comes to tree and foliage and the likes. I want to learn from you people :) Ok, I think I was too messy. I'll try to state this thing clearer in the next post :) Stefano