Hi Everyone!

Here's the Challenge for March- "Solitary"

Definition of Solitary according to the Miriam-Webster Dictionary:
 
1 a: being, living, or going alone or without companions b: saddened by isolation

2: unfrequented, desolate (a solitary seashore)

3 a: taken, passed, or performed without companions (a solitary ramble) b: keeping a prisoner apart from others (solitary confinement)

4: being at once single and isolated (a solitary example)

5 a: occurring singly and not as part of a group or cluster (flowers terminal and solitary)
b: not gregarious, colonial, social, or compound (solitary bees)

I hope this give everyone something to play with. :)

As an example, here's one of my photos with the same name :

Of course your interpretation is your own, make it, sad, serious, funny, silly... whatever you want :)
I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone can come up with!

Good Luck and have fun!

Jo x

I think this theme will be a great challenge! 

Let's run this until the last week of March, I will give you a day or so heads up and if anyone needs more time they can let me know.  You may enter an existing work if you like, but we would prefer to see a new work created for this challenge... it IS a challenge after all, lol!  You may enter more than one work, but remember that in the voting, each entry will be judged separately.  Please, please, please put titles on your entries, especially if you have more than one.

Let your creativity flow!!!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

What is this? A play on the word "solitary" ?  What exactly is supposed to be offered here?

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

Hi Thunderstone-

Just look at the definitions and use your imagination. For example you could do a picture of a different coloured flower in a field of flowers all the same colour,  or a bird wheeling silently in the sky. Another example could be a sweeping, empty beach or mountain range.
As I said the interpretation is your own, it can be as sad, serious, silly, funny or thoughtful as you wish.
I hope I've helped to clarify this, any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. :)

You could also write a story or poem about yourself or a character who feels alone, who is going through the world in a solitary way.   You could do a 3D image of a single box, ball, house, tree....  You could do a pen and ink drawing or cartoon showing something unusual and singular.  Check some of our earlier challenges to see how they have been answered.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

ok... thanks. I think I got it.

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

Attached Link: full image

The Sentinel Pine watched alone.

It hadn't changed much in the last century of its life: how much more weathering can a tree endure?  It will be centuries before there is another tree there to keep watch.

very fine theme image.

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Ohh very nice! Well Done :D

**the lone tulip...**

If this is of any help in developing conceptual ideas?

bwtr

And!

bwtr

Oh, goody!  More entries!!

The kid without team or ball is poignant and I think we've all felt like that tulip on occasion.

Carolly

We post them here?  Sharen

So this Challenge only runs a few more days, Correct???

I would rather be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!

Sharen... hi! (and thank you again for the holiday goodies!!!)

We should have until the end of the month or thereabouts.  If folks need a bit longer to finish something, Tresamie is accommodating.  The goal is to inspire us to actually make something, after all.

We can post links to the gallery or smaller images in the thread.  Since the thread image size is only 200 kb, I'll often do both... gallery size with link, and something smaller here so voters have a reminder without having to hunt everywhere.

Given the typical 3d artist, I'm surprised that we haven't had a naked singularity entered yet.  I might have to write a limerick. ;^)

Carolly

You are welcome, I guess I will put it here then.  Thank you.  Sharen :-)

I've never entered a contest here before. Is it just for fun or does the winner get a free $1,000 spending spree in the marketplace?!!

Oh well, it was worth a try.

Seriously though, I uploaded a piece just recently into my gallery which is very apt for this contest. Will it be OK to put it here?

Does this have to be a new work ?

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

Attached Link: Abandoned Car, Death Valley, CA

Please view full size. This is one place in California where solitary is in abundance!

Kim Hawkins

 

Kim Hawkins Eastern Sierra Gallery

 

 

Brush  painted I named it "Almost there" hope you like it"

Titled "growing alone" done in bryce thank you :

Here I am again you've created a monster as I have time on my hands today so I made a few :: This is named "sad fairy"

Attached Link: Isolation

flowers should not be alone bluone

a lonely butterfly...................

stormchaser,

Sure, go ahead and enter it.  The "prize" is getting to choose the next month's theme.  The theme can range from silly to sublime.  I remember the summer that somebody chose "hotdogs"!!!  I entered 5 haiku and someone modeled a hotdog and there may even have been an overheated pooch amid the barbecue scenes.  Theme such as "Dignity" or "Peace" might inspire something a bit loftier in the way of artistic accomplishment.

The real prize is actually finishing something that's been in the folders or using an item that we bought 3 years ago! *:chuckle:

*TheBryster,

New work is encouraged, but the rules allow for older pieces.  If I've used something for one challenge, I won't reuse it for another (my personal decision), but might link  to encourage others.  A few months ago, we had "Chaos" as a theme.  I'd done an image representing the butterfly effect far earlier for a different challenge.  I wrote a minitut on how the effect was achieved, because randomness is really hard to create, and just linked to it as an example.  Other times I've used previously created work.  The pine I'm entering now was photographed in the early 70s (it died in 1976, during our drought), and I inked it when living in Coarsegold (1982-86).  I'd have to check my records to see what year it was copyrighted, since the half-brain is a bit fuzzy.  (I am disabled with a permanent migraine.)  For this contest, I've scanned and cleaned and framed it so it lives again.

A type of translucent animal you may find thousands of miles beneath the ocean.

Rendered in Bryce.

Ra3vyn
I AM NOT IN THE COMPETITION!

My images, some 40 or more years old, are just to help inspire ideas!

Brian

bwtr

hello everyone perhaps someone can answer a question for me
When I get a e-mail from here it say's someone has left me a message I can never find it
even chosing where it does said click here::

thank you;

**evielouise,

Look at the top of the sidebar (mine is on the right).  There ought to be a label saying "Member Links" and right under that is one saying "Site Mail".  Click on Site Mail.  Recent notes are on the top of the list... click on the message, not the sender, to read them.

HTH,

Carolly****

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hauksdottir: Many thanks.

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

OK folks, I've decided to enter my piece 'Alone' which I uploaded to my gallery here recently. It just seems appropriate for this contest. I've reduced it in size for here. This was done in Vue 6 Infinite.

I want to mention the other pics by people here, very inspiring. It's great to see such variety from a single theme & using different methods.

 

Carolly,I understand site mail alright from my fav artist etc
but this is saying its on forums where the message is
I did check site mail hmm---nothing there:
at least I found your message now which I am replying too
so that's great
thanks for your help'''
evie

Click here to view this message or here **to visit the forum.
PS this is the copy paste of how I get my messages for forums only""
The site mail does now show any from here that "
But I will eventually find it lol::
thanks  a bunch:

My own quote___Thier are no stupid question,not asking is :

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Don't know if this qualifies....

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

Evielouise, if you are talking about ebots that you recieve at your "personal" email box, be very careful!!!!! There is a phishing scam being used by people trying to get information and to confirm your email so they can send you spam. They even use this site by signing up here, but never uploading any work. So I just make it a policy to never open RR messages from my "personal" email, I always come here to the site first and see if there is a message or comment "HERE".
I have received several ebots saying that a new artist has added a comment or added me to their favorites, but when I get here..... nothing! I hope this helps!!!! :)

Kim Hawkins

 

Kim Hawkins Eastern Sierra Gallery

 

 

Not sure if we are allowed to do more than one entry, but I'm going to post both of them just in case.  If we are limited to one only, I want to choose the second one.  Thanks

Atlas

 Hideaway

 

 

**another solitude ,by the sea**

evielouis,

Are you clicking on the first link... the one to view the message?

Also, the ebots are often odd.  For example, the ebot saying that you'd posted was sent when you posted, but I was still on site and had already seen your message.  If I hadn't come to check, I'd have missed the ones that were posted after it.

ebots have always had problems here, but it is still the best way to find out if a thread is active.

My cat is calling, so I'd better go see what she wants... but do wish to say that I'm thrilled at all the entries pouring in! :)

Carolly

Very interesting and ingriguing challenge..if I have the time ot sort it out, I will enter. Entries so far are really good viewing and good work to the theme.     TomDart.

EvieLouise , Try looking at top right of your browser ,  Member link's > Site mail

Ok look's like your sorted :)
I thinkl you can submit 3 pictures , not sure of rules ,
Have fun either way!

evielouise,

The email that you got is simply a notification that someone posted to the thread you left a message on after you did.  If you do not want to get these emails, you need to uncheck the notice immediately under the place where you type in the message that you are adding to the thread.  It says "Notify me when someone replies" .  If you uncheck it, you will not get the emails anymore.

I hope that helps :)

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

LightningJynx

You can submit more than one image, but each image will be voted on separately, so they need to be titled clearly.  Yours are fine.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Bryster

Your image fits the challenge perfectly!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

It's really great to see all these wonderful entries!  It always fascinates me to see how people using such different tools can interpret a single theme.

Keep 'em coming!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Attached Link: rude awakening - the mourning after

here's one that comes with a poem... artwork rendered free-hand in powerpoint; poem's mine too... 

Rude Awakening

Gossamer dream tendrils

Surrender reluctantly their tenuous grasp upon my consciousness

And I rise

Languidly

To a golden glow and renewed awareness

My senses emerge shyly from the receding mist to envelope me

In the soft staccato of chickadee twittering

Overlaying the melodious rainbow of dancing chimes

Buffeted playfully by soughing breezes

In the sultry aroma of freshly brewed Kona

Intermingling with the hazelnut vestiges

Of last night’s Yankee candle

And in the pillow-perfect caress of my bedding

Imparted to arms and legs splayed carelessly to the four winds

As only the deepest slumber can scatter them

My eyes open as a sloth moves

To the overhead spectacle of a million-mote emissary of this glorious new day

Riding a sunlit shaft from stained-glass window

To the back of my mind

Where it registers as beauty

My arm stretches instinctively leftward, whereupon

One final, brutal awareness seeps into my consciousness

And my heart, flanked by all the dreams it once held

With them in unison whispers a breathy te morituri salutamus

And breaks anew

For you are not beside me

Gazing me lovingly awake

Sharing these exquisite sensations and the prospect of brunch together

And might quite possibly not ever be again

Hi, I hope to have one more before it ends..for now...

RE: messages from forums::
Thanks a lot for all your feedback:
"understood""

 

I just wanted to say the photo of the boy alone   in the field is fantastic
I  like it a lot:::

A lot of people are showing wonderful images" love them all::

Here's a couple I did today::

stand alone

Are you being advised of Site Mail (PMs).
Have a look and click on Site Mail under Members Link up in the RH corner of the screen.

bwtr

Attached Link: "Nature's Struggle"

Ok, here's my entry into the challenge:

"Nature's Struggle"

See the full-sized verson of it here in the galleries, at the above link.

Good luck to everyone!

JonTheCelt

OOPS I am truly troubled SR moment:  ??? lol

forgot the image  oops;

brush painted by  yours truly

Sorry for  the delete this below was suppose to go on with the image::

Another one from yours truly:
named it "troubled"

When I feel troubled with a worried mind
When I'm stressed because of life and time
The salvation I can still find,is a walk alone
The pressure of the day  can slowly slipped away
like  the sands of time along the shores:

when  life hands you lemons
add vodka:

 

**           **       poem by yours truly     
                                                The Intruder

How do I overcome

Something I cannot see

The pain so deep inside of me

My back my legs my head my hands

You bind me like a rubber band

But you will not discourage me

I will fight back so you will see

that also deep inside of me

A strong and determined mind in me

When you hit you do not play,

Just when I think your gone away

You slam me down,in your hard way

You play a game,I will not play

I'm stubborn, and I am  strong

I'll beat your game someday

and you'll be gone:

on your way,forever

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for all people who suffer and feel alone"
a short poem about FMS (fibromyalgia)

Attached Link: only the beginning

you inspired me, evie, with your latest entry...  here's one more from me, including poem by yours truly (it's a longer one though, so i haven't reprised it here)...

I inspried you?? wow
thanks a lot
now I will take a look at yours''
good day from sunny LA !!(smile)

It's then end of the contest I think??or soon lol so here is another I did real quick drawing with brush and I named it don't let me fall:

thanks everyone:

Quote:::Be there if your  friend falls,help him up:

Here's mine-Solitary

What a terrific batch of entries for this interesting challenge!  This is the last call for entries.  I will be closing the challenge tomorrow night at 23:59 Renderosity time and have voting for a couple of days.   

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Attached Link: soaring

ahhhh, i never could resist just one more at 'last call'... ;)  accordingly, here's one last entry from yours truly...  as with my previous two entries, this one comes with a poem:

Soaring**

Alone
Aloft
On silent wings
Amid hawks
Clouds
God's wondrous things
Drifting
Sifting the mysteries of life
At one with the sky
I fly**

I'd wanted to make a poem about the Phoenix Triumphant to balance all those who think that solitary = sad, but only have phrases, not a sound structure. 

I find it somewhat amazing that with all these entries we have no lighthouse-keepers, hermits, guardians, or champions in the Irish mode (alone on the bridge, causeway, ford) or anybody on solitary quest or vigil.  Perhaps this speaks of modern sensibilities, where everybody has a cellphone glued to their ear, even in a crowd, and being disconnected is devastating.

Cross-posted. (I type slowly)

Can we please leave the voting until Friday? I'm goin off-world for a couple and won't be back till Thursday night GMT.

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

Enjoy your trip to Mars, Bryster!  Closing the entries on Friday gives everyone a couple of extra days to get in those last entries!  Back to the drawing board... erm... computer :)

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Thanks, Viv!
I'm back now. ;-)

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

Well, now that everyone's back together, let's open the voting!  What an interesting challenge we had this month!  I really enjoyed seeing some writing as well as visual art.  We have 3 pages of images this month, be sure to look at them all.  It's time to start the voting!  Please vote in this thread, after this entry.  You get to choose your 3 favorite entries, giving each of them 3, 2 or 1 points.  Remember, you are choosing an entry, not an artist.  If someone has posted more than one entry, you need to indicate which is your choice. 

Your vote should look something like this:

Ivanttu - "beAlone" - 3 points
Sin - "gular" - 2 points
1and - "Only" - 1 point

Feel free to nominate Honorable Mentions or make comments.

 

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

panzerfaust - "Solitary" - 3 points
stormchaser -- "Alone" --- 2 points
Ra3vyn ------ "Solitary" - 1 point

I enjoyed seeing the different takes on this challenge ... very inspiring.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...
____

Mrnarna - Isolation = 3 points
Stormchaser - Alone = 2 points
Panzerfaust - Solitary = 1 point.

Good luck to everyone!

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

It was a tough decision this, but in the end I chose these 3 as my favourites.

1 - jonthecelt -    "Nature's Struggle" - 3 points
2 - panzerfaust - " Solitary"               -  2 points
3 - nongo -          "the lone tulip"       - 1 point

um, being new to this forum, i have a dumb question... can anybody vote, just not for his/her own entry, or how does it work? 

Anybody who is a member of Renderosity can vote. 

We usually don't vote for our own entries.  On occasion there have only been 2-3 entries, and to avoid the embarrassment of having to vote for our own work, we come to an agreement... like declaring us all winners and a group decision on the next month's challenge.

Because, after all, getting something finished and entered is a victory for many of us.

Carolly

OK, my votes...

• bentchick - Abandoned Car = 3 points

Exquisite work... and that car is so isolated that there isn't even a track of a road back to civilization.

• evielouise - Alone with Pain = 2 points

I live with a constant migraine, and pain isolates a person by keeping them from being fully human and in the human community... especially if the source of the pain isn't obvious.  The red skeleton conveys this effectively working with the words.

• bangonthedrums - Rude Awakening = 1 point

The poem is very strong.  Even in a shared bed, you can be alone.

• LightningJinx - Atlas = H.M.

Atlas is definitely a solitary figure, with the weight of the world at war on his shoulders.  Yet he still stands upright.  He doesn't just drop the ball and walk back to his buddies.

A very nice showing all around with many good entries.

Carolly

thanks, carolly, for your kind explanation!

tough choices, but here are my 3:

1)  stormchaser - alone = 3 points

2)  hauksdottir - the sentinel pine = 2 points

3)  bentchick - abandoned car, death valley, ca = 1 point

HM)  ra3vyn - solitary
HM)  jonthecelt - nature's struggle
HM)  panzerfaust - solitary

great entries, all.... loved the diversity!

Stormchaser's image really stuck out for me-
She gets 3 points from me.

My votes are for:

1   Only the beginning            stunning art work !

#2    the lone tulip           beautiful photography.....
#3    stand alone           Lighthouses to me are very alone,standing  against the sea, and the darkness of night .. warning  ships  and sailors with no reply..

Good luck to you ALL   was very hard to make a decision..

Last call for final votes!  I will close the voting tonight at 23:59 Renderosity time and have the totals soon thereafter. 

Does anyone want to weigh in on us having a April/May challenge since we ran a bit late?  Post it here or send me a sitemail.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

April/May?

It depends upon the theme!

Something floral or spring-like or dealing with birth and growth would be suitable across the months, but "April Fools" and "April Showers" and "April is the Cruelest Month" are too specific, despite being good themes.

Carolly

Thanks to all who participated in this challenge!  There were so many amazing

entries.  The subject really inspired a lot of different interpretations.

Here is the Vote count:

Tied for sixth place, with 1 point:  bangonthedrums' Rude Awakening, evielouise's

Stand Alone and Ra3vyn's Solitary.

Tied for fifth place, with 2 points:  hauksdottir's Sentinel Pine and evielouise's

Alone With Pain.

Tied for fourth place, with 3 points:  bangonthedrums' Only The Beginning, nongo's

The Lone Tulip, jonthecelt's Nature's Struggle and mrnarna's Isolation.

In third place, with 4 points:  bentchick's Abandoned Car

In second place, with 6 points:  panzerfaust's Solitary.

In first place, with 10 points: stormchaser's Alone.

Everyone did a great job and showed a lot of inspiration!  Congratulations to

stormchaser!  Please choose a challenge for April/May :)

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Hi,

I just wanted to say a big thanks to those who voted for me. It was interesting to take part in this challenge, seeing the different formats people used on a single theme.

How long have I got to come up with a theme for the new challenge?
I'll have to get thinking on something interesting enough & broad enough that a wide range of us can take part in.

Thanks,

Stormy.

Since we ran so late on the voting, I would like to make the next challenge April/May so we can have some comfortable timing.  It would be great if you can get us a challenge in a couple of days. :)

Congratulations!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Attached Link: found the, uh, links!

Viv,

Given the other deadlines this month, taking the pressure off is perhaps a Good Thing.

Stormchaser,

Congratulations!  And don't worry too hard about a broad topic: no matter what the theme, we'll push the borders of it.  Given what happened with hot dogs, I think we can handle anything. ;)

Carolly

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1210773

This is an old image. so I won't enter it as part of the competition, but it does fit the theme.

Attached Link: DAWN

We've got a new theme... for April/May...  and here is the link to it in case the linkydink doesn't work:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2736998

Should be interesting, especially for those of us who usually try to be in bed by then! ;^)

Carolly