Contests We Have Lost

Just to show off some of our work that has not gained any recognition, I thought I'd post a few pieces that we have entered in contests but which have not won any prizes. We're proud of our work, and hold no grudges - this is just an attempt to demonstrate the quality of our work despite losing out to other very talented studios.

First, one example of our earliest work in January of 2009. Designing Nicky Ree held a contest to show off her original cat suit. We selected a theme that included cats and the Japanese/Chinese kanji symbol for "cat" and submitted three versions. Here is the one we feel was the best of the lot:



That's our own Victoria Cooperstone (in an early incarnation), sitting on the back of Rush Goldlust, another of our "stable" of models, as the cat. :)

In April of '09, we again entered a Designing Nicky Ree contest, this time to show off her "Satin Shine" line of gowns. While we failed to place yet again, we considered this piece featuring my lovely Atia as our best effort:



Also in April, we entered a contest featuring a number of outfits from Dolly Rock - and this one, tentatively titled "Morning Walk in New Paris", again featuring Atia, we thought was our best offering, though we again failed to win a spot in the top three:



On a more whimsical note, we entered a contest in June hosted by the Photographers of SL Flickr group. In this, the challenge was to combine a sepia tone photo with a splash of color. Our models Melinda Freese and Earl Ametza agreed to help us by creating this version of an old theme - a man infatuated with a performer - with the twist of age hopefully creating an interesting piece:



In June, we entered a contest to feature a new skin line called "Candace" from the ::Exodi:: line by Ryker Beck. Of the two entries, we won a second place (see next post) with one but this one (our favorite) did not place. This is called "Captive", featuring Nance Bellic as the "captive" and yours truly as the pirate.



June was a busy time for us. We also worked with two newcomers to our model family, Bea Mistwallow and Sid Sopwith, to create two pics featuring the outfits of the MYTH clothing line - a small company with simple outfits that feature very realistic textures. The first, titled "On a Foggy Morning", suggests that Bea and Sid have had a lover's tiff:



In that same series, we featured Bea and Sid (along with yours truly) in a scene suggesting that Bea, in her MYTH outfit, was a pop star. Titled "Playing to Her Fans", this piece, while losing at the contest, was included in the Flickr site of SL Expressions, dedicated to photos of Second Life avatars using facial emotes, something we take pride in at Phototgenix



While none of these entries won us fame or fortune, we still take pride in our compositions, and include them here on our site as evidence of the sort of work we strive for here - interesting SL photos, with no or few post-production tricks, that capture the beauty and verve of Second Life.

You can see all these and more recent works at the Photogenix Studio Gallery, or at our Flickr stream. We hope you will visit soon.



~B~