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Beauty of a turn-out with 58 Entries! I thank you all for taking the time out to make this one of the biggest and Best Forum Challenges! Take the link to look at all the entries, there are a LOT of great pictures, this month will be truly tough to vote on. Place your vote in this forum thread. You will place 3 votes, no more, no less, no voting for yourself. The 3 votes will be your top 3 favorites. You will be giving 3 points to your #1 fave, 2 points to your 2nd, and 1 point for your #3 fave. Tryt to list it something like this for easier tallying of the votes; member 1's name - 3 points member 2's name - 2 points member 3's name - 1 point Feel free to write up any others you liked, as I'm sure they would appreciate reading their name! (your own personal "Honorable Mentions", etc) After this weekend I will count up all the votes, and announce the 3 winners. If there are any questions or problems, please post them in here and I'll answer/fix. Now go vote!!!!!!!! AgentSmith

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Vile - 3 Agentsmith - 2 Grind - 1

As the remit was for realism I go for these, Agentsmith.. 3pts Chewbacha.....2pts Wildman2......1pt.

Vile - 3 points Apache2K - 2 points Eelie - 1 point Honorable Mention - Creations and Stephen Ray

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Ok, tough one as usual.

Vile - 3 points - Stunning realism.

Jaymonjay - 2 points - Again very realistic, and colorful.

Creations - 1 point - I don't know why but it makes me feel nostalgic...

Honorable mentions:
Nuski
jedswindells
Stephen Ray
AgentSmith
wildman2

some incredible entries! Agentsmith - 3pts Vile- 2pts Nuski- 1pt Honorable mentions---- Stephen Ray, Muddygrub, Jaymonjay

Jaymonjay - 3 points Agentsmith - 2 points Nuski - 1 point

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3pts - AgentSmith 2pts - Vile 1pt - Violet Honorable mention; Nuski, Grind, Eelie, Rickymaveety, Attileus, MuddyGrub... Great images, very diversified, everyone did a super job!

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Vile - 3
Agent Smith - 2
Chewbacha -1

Honorable Mention - Everyone else..... You all did some excellent work on your images this month.

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Ack no this is too hard! All of these images are the best! Great turn out too! I did see some I liked more than others though! Chewbacha 3 This is the most unique underwater image I have ever seen not your typical Brycean underwater image and deserves it! Ellnek 2 Only because I want an explanation on how the image was made!!! Jaymonjay 1 The perspective and DOF are unique and very life like. Good luck to all!

What a tough one to vote! Agent Smith - 3 Stephen Ray - 2 Vile - 1 Honorable Mentions: Grind, Creations,Thelema, Dan Whiteside

Some great images this time out!
AgentSmith - 3pts
Vile - 2pts
Swade- 1pt

Wow...what a great challenge this was !!! And a tough one to vote for !! Zahn 3 points --very detailled.. Vile 2 points -- looks simple but has a great impact.. AgentSmith 1 point -- for the unique approache and scene.. Honorable mentions : every single one of the entries of the challenge ,cause they all were very good!

AgentSmith - 3 Vile - 2 eelnek - 1 This was really a great challenge and there are so many great pictures that it made it very difficult to choose.

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Many impressive entries. . . . . Keeping within the theme of realism in the undersea environment, I felt that these three images, based upon their complexity, total environmental representation and compositional excellence, should be recognized:

arjanjacques - 3
Peggy Walters - 2
AgentSmith - 1

Vile - 3 Chewbacha - 2 AgentSmith - 1

Man, it was tough to get my decision down for this!!! Let's go for: JayMonJay-3 AgentSmith-2 eelnek-1 Final Answer! The work here was great, I had a list of about 8 pieces that I liked a lot.... Good job to everyone!!!!! Cory BS

Vile - 3 AgentSmith - 2 Eelnek - 1 It is hard just to vote for three. Sorry AgentSmith ya had me but the reflections and skins of the whales of Vile's were just killer (pun intended)

Vile- 3 Eelnek-2 Zhann-1

One of the toughest challenges to vote yet! So many excellent entries.... Svaelt - 3 points Jedswindells - 2 StephenRay - 1 Way to everyone!

Vile - 3 zhann - 2 Eelnek - 1

agent smith 3 creations 2 grind 1 Real hard too pick on this one with so much good work in it,good job everyone..

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Agent Smith 3 Creations 2 Vile 1 Honorable Mentions from me to: Peggy Walters Svaelt Muddy Grub

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AgentSmith 3 points Vile 2 points StephenRay 1 point But they were all great!

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AgentSmith - 3 points Zhann - 2 points Rj001 - 1 points Honorable Mentions Rickymaveety Creations Amethyss Nuski Kapoho Swade

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Ok here goes 3 Vile -- NO QUESTION, The most Realistic entry. 2 AgentSmith -- Great scene lighting and atmosphere and textures all spot on. Looking at the image I feel like I'm this person's dive partner. 1 Kapoho -- For the same reason I like AgentSmith's the atmosphere and lighting made me feel like I was really in an underwater cave looking out. Given realism as the PRIMARY consideration, first and second place were a sinch. It was picking a third that was the hardest. So here are the runners up that in my opinion were all tied with Kapoho. Zahnn Creations Peggy Walters Swade And finally I have to give props to Danamo for persuing the Prehistoric angle. I contemplated that theme myself and may take a crack at my own paleozioc era, underwater scene in the near future. GOOD STUFF ALL

WOW, am I glad that's over, this Challenge has certainly stretched my capabilities to the full and unfortunately I had to post a joke in the end as I had wanted to post something !! I now know Bryce will not render a 5000+ object, volumetric water and fancy lighting image, simply the quickest crash I've ever had. I'm sure Phil will join me in saying a big thank you to all of the entrants, I certainly never expected so many entries and of such a high standard and as has been said already judging is extremely difficult. However, based on realism as the main criteria my humble opinion is........ Stephen Ray.......3 Points I just keep going back to this image, so much to see in different textures and ambience. The right side has the appearance of a water colour painting (no pun intended). Marvellous picture, my No.1 by a long way. Chewbacha.........2 Points Never seen anything like it, absolutely stunning image, so simple, so complex, so original, so deserving to win but.... Vile..............1 Point I'm a sucker for killer whales anyway but this image is so realistic it presents beauty on the one hand and the ferocity of the beast on the other. Amazing picture. Many congratulations to my winners and commiserations to my runners-up (but only by a whisker).... Amethyss Creations Johnyf Danamo AgentSmith Peggy Svaelt Thanks to AgentSmith for his dutiful organisation and, again, a big thanks to the membership for supporting this Challenge. Bye now........Dennis

I'm so glad I didn't enter, I would have been blown out of the water (pun intended). I haven't read the other posts, 'cause I didn't want to be influenced, so if anyone else has used that joke, I apologise. That was the hardest one to judge yet. After cutting down to a short list of 58. Then managed to get down to about 15 and had to download them all so I could go through again and again without waiting for the download. SO many great pictures and it deserves a website in it's own right. Anyway, the votes from the DrawbridgeP jury are: VILE - 3 points JAYMONJAY - 2points NUSKI - 1 point Here are others that I really liked: creations darkginger stephen ray - (Would have been 4th) arjanjacques zhann violet agentsmith Apache2K bc butterfly_fish eelnek Well done and thanks for entering.

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Oh dear, almost a put the numbers in the hat and draw them out one. So many good ones to choose from. 3Pts.....AgentSmith 2Pts.....Zhann 1Pt......Creations

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AgentSmith - 3 Vile - 2 Zhann - 1

Vile - 3 AgentSmith - 2 Jaymonjay - 1 How many honorable mentions, could I put in?? excellent work everyone.

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AgentSmith - 3 Zhann - 2 chewbacha - 1

Nice entries by all. The ones that really caught my eye are: eelie - 3 AgentSmith - 2 butterfly_fish - 1

3 Vile 2 Chewbacha 1 Jaymonjay Great stuff!

3 - Creations 2 - arjanjacques 1 - danamo Great job everyone on the entries! :) MD

Agent Smith - 3 points Jaymonjay - 2 points Violet - 1 point Too many honorable mentions to, um, mention. There was a lot of great work in there!

Vile - 3 points Kapoho - 2 points Agent Smith - 1 point and also too many honourable mentions to mention. :-) But really, well done, everybody.

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Amazing level of skill shown in this month's challenge! Thank you so much to all those who voted for me. Narrowing my selection down to just three was painful, but here goes: 3 points - Agent Smith (Incredible sense of scale and feeling of solitude) 2 points - Vile (Excellent realism) 1 point - arjanjacques (Beautiful colour and lighting)

They are all so creative! Vile - 3 points AgentSmith - 2 points Violet - 1 point

I am soooo P.O.'d with Dennis & Phil for this challenge. Every single bug in Bryce reared its ugly head, including some I've never heard mentioned. I learned a lot from this challenge. Things like radial lights are buggy and "Honey, I think you've spent waaay too much time with that program-thingy of yours. Go sweep the drive." AgentSmith: 3 points (Wow Chewbaca: 2 points (The shrimp is incredible, but where in the water would you find it? If it was in the few inches off Roatan, Honduras, then the water color is perfect... Nuski: 1 point. The only problem I had with this image is that bubbles under water are not round. The water pressure presses the bottom of the bubble up into it, so that it becomes a "jelly-fish-ish" shape. But, hey, what do I know? Great images, everyone!!!!

Vile: 3 Incredible whales, but the suspended particles and lighting is what earned my vote for most realistic. BC: 2 Beautiful combination of alpha planes and models, also excellent DOF Stephen Ray: 1 With the exception of the perfectly spherical bubbles, excellent atmosphere Honorable Mentions: Jaymon Jay - Nice Focal Point Agent Smith - Good sense of depth Svaelt - Excellent Color

3 points - Jaymonjay 2 points - Agent Smith 1 point - Vile

Tough Job! so many FINE entries. My pick AgentSmith 3pts Violet 2pts Jedswindells 1pt Very Honorables Amethyss Jaymonjay Vile note: realism counts, but so does imagination.

So many entries! Well done everyone of you! Agent Smith = 3 Vile = 2 Dan Whiteside = 1 Everyone else = Honourable Mention. I wish I'd had time to enter, on the other hand maybe it was better that I didn't...LOL

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As mentioned - lot's of great entries! 3 points: Agent Smith 2 Points: Vile 1 Point: Violet HM: JaymonJay and Stephen Ray

Well here is the vote from a Dutchman. At this moment Holland is almost floated with heavy rain and a photograph from my backyard would not have looked bad in this challenge:-) The entries were all very good and here are my favorites Jaymonjay =3 AgentSmith =2 Nuski =1

Vile 3 Agentsmith 2 Jaymonjay 1 1000 points to everyone who participated!

Phew... this has been difficult! But here are the results of my back and forth... and back again for the past coupla days. :) Agent Smith 3 Svaelt 2 tjon 1 Honorable mentions: chohole - This was really cute; and I wanted to vote for it; but then I had to admit that I guess fish can't read. Really :) johnyf - The really big improvement in your technicue and style since you started Brycing! :) Well done!

Agent Smith-3 Vile-2 Jaymonjay-1

Oh gawd, I'm out for some weeks and you guys come out with this fantastic show... the thumbnails was a pleasure to browse, really. Now I'm having some bad connection problem, so it's a miracle (and a blessing, considering the works submitted) that I was able to see them all in a single session. By the way, how ya' doin'? :) Fantastic entries, everyone. My voting: 3 points: AgentSmith 2 points: eelie 1 point : Creations

Incredibly hard call, but here goes... Vile - 3 points Agent Smith - 2 points Zhann - 1 point Also in my final choices: MuddyGrub, Svaelt and Stephen Ray. Top work people! All of the entries were of a really high standard. Looking forward to the next challenge!

Wow, you guys do excellent work in Bryce, 3pts to Zhann 2pts to AgentSmith 1pt to Vile very impressive...:)

Voting is closed - thank you AgentSmith

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damn, now I just missed the voting :( stupid multiple day renders... they keep me from this forum too long.

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