Here´s my entry.
Hope you like it!
[ATTACH=CONFIG]188666[/ATTACH]
@keeek - “simple” yet impressive dude. BI or Cycles? The quality seems Cycles but fur make me think it’s not.
Do anybody know if the winner can split the prize eg: 200$ to Blender Foundation and 300$ to a charity…?
Thanks!
It´s Cycles. Fur is made of a few thousand instances of a hair mesh.
Wow, there are a lot of very photo realistic entries here!
Antirales- Don’t say that, Major4z may be coming in, and in that case we’re all doomed 
Anyway, I just wanted to update my entry, because I redid some colors and lessened the lens effects (vignette, distortion, dispersion, DOF, dust, etc…) to very subtle. Oh, and yes, it’s all cycles.
Edit: of course I had to do last minute changes.
Anyway, I hope you like it!
Hey,
this is my entry, hope you like it. My first try to render a photo realistic head. Everything rendered with the Blender Internal Renderengine.
Best regards,
Martin
I’ve only been using blander for around 3 months now, but I thought it’d be worth a shot. Good luck to everyone.
Hey everyone!
Here is my humble entry for this contest, “All I Need”, and this IS the final image
Full image: http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/2005/allineed.jpg
Floor, leather, and outdoor pic reflecting in the fractal on the left, all from CGTextures
Vase, blanket, fractals, Blender book, picture frames, and wine label are all my own or procedural
Rendered with BI, no postwork or nodes
It’s really great to see the enthusiasm for this contest, and Blender in general, especially the newcomers
Best of luck to everyone, the entries are looking really great! 
Hi~everyoneI want to creat a simple but powerful image…and this is what I do , all models done in blender and also render with cycles , hope you like it ~
this is my entry
full size herehttp://dzhk.net/upload/images/1342201145.png
Cheers
Saika Fu
Hello everyone!
This is my entry for this competition, hope you like it:
This was rendered in cycles with 3000 passes in about 30mins.
Postprocessing done in Blender’s compositing nodes (colorcorect, DOF, vignette, distortion and other stuff)
link to full res: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/34860
Edit:
I updated the compositing (turned down the saturation) and changed the grass a little bit
Good luck at all 
here’s my entry. i know i could’ve added a lot more detail but i’m happy with the result considering i did it in a week. It is rendered in the Blender Internal. Hope you like it critiques welcome!
That is really good. This might actually be a winner, especially looking at Andrews taste. Very impressive indeed.
Hi
This is a idolomantis diabolica L1 known as the devil’s flower mantis
[ATTACH=CONFIG]188715[/ATTACH]
Bye
lastrodamo
My entry is below. Fairly pleased with result and will probably revisit in a few weeks time.
Image is also on flickr. Welcome to hear comments and feedback.
Render in Cycles. Minor editing in GIMP.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59916467@N06/7564662912/in/photostream
Hey everyone, here’s my entry for the competition. Critiques and such are of course welcome. May the best man win
