Hi there, all you Photo Forum people... :)
Long time, no post and no word from me...
...I was once a quite active member to Renderosity, and also to this forum. Painstaking and sometimes quite boring work for a specialisation thesis on Clinical Biochemistry, and an obsessive mind for producing "hand-made" fractals (or, "fractaloids") as a spare time computerized recreational activity take me away from producing something photographic...or "scanographic"...
Yet, I try to regularly follow the Forum and the Gallery for photography.

So, I took a look at all the entries for November's theme "Simple Shapes"......and was a little surprised to see that the "intermediate" entries were more successful in general than the "advanced" entries..!
Now, no offending...just my humble, open and sincere opinion... :)
Surely, I'd like to congratulate all the participants. Yet, may I please express my special congrats to PunkClown and Maygen..? Those works are especially successful, and hope it was possible to vote for both of them...

Now, maybe it shouldn't be my task to offer an idea about the monthly contests (I even do not own a camera..!), but would it do any good to accept a small portfolio (say, a portfolio of 3 or so photos) from each contest participant for the monthly themes..? By this way, the "continuity in achievement" at approaching to the monthly theme and at the application of personal techniques and styles may become a valuable challenge in itself for evaluating the entries, and the entrants. Given the relatively small number of participants nearly each month, it wouldn't be of much burden for the Render (or, the Forum...or...) to bare with small portfolios...
Well, this was yet another humble opinion...

So far, so good...and best regards and salutations to you all... :)