The Vision of my Son

The purpose of the contest is to make a picture of my vision using the paragraph below.

A description of the theme
I went outside I remember it being so dark in the sky not many stars just darkness and as I stood on the back porch I closed my eyes and looked to the skies and started to talk to God. I told him that I knew I had done all that I could do and that I had to put Cody in his hands and what ever decision he made I would try to understand if he could heal him or if he had to take him from me, but that I just wish that he could give me a sign a feeling of knowing something. When I finally finished my conversation I opened my eyes and every where you looked it was still pitch black but over Cody's bedroom there was the biggest white cloud in the shape of a mans face that I know was only one person God, he was giving me my answer as I stood there looking at it I stepped off the porch so I was looking directly at the back side of the house where Cody's room is and was amazed, shocked, wondering if I was really seeing what I was seeing so I blinked and it was real it was there, as I looked at the cloud it started to move but never away from Cody's room and it swirled and moved to make what I can now explain as an outline, unlike the face being made of the clouds. The clouds when they moved outlined the next person and it was this Baseball Player standing on the pitchers mound his cap cocked just a little to the side but the bill bent just so perfectly curved in a full position with his arm pulled back with the baseball in it just waiting to throw his pitch. I knew in my heart what God was telling me, but I so much wanted to believe he was saying Cody was going to play ball again in which I was right he was telling me that but with the images one being solid of the clouds and the other an outline into the sky meant that he was going to be playing on Gods team.

The day that Cody died, Ricky & I were standing on the front porch again right in front of Cody's room we both looked to the sky, there was the biggest brightest shooting star going by and I know it was Cody just letting us know he made it.

Additional information can be found at Cody's Forest (external link).

Contest Dates:

• Contest Opens: Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
• Deadline extended! Contest Closes: Monday, December 11th, 2006, 12:00pm [noon] Central Standard Time (CST/Renderosity Server Time)
• Entries MUST be time stamped by December 11, 2006, 12:00pm CST (Renderosity Server Time)
• Judging will take place: Tuesday, December 12 - Saturday, December 16
• Winners to be Announced: Monday, December 18

General Contest Rules:

• Contest Theme: The purpose of the contest is to make a picture of my vision using the description above.

• Full Image: No larger than 1024 x 768 [72 dpi in jpg or gif format]
• Thumbnail Image: Thumbnail image MUST be included. (100 x 100 pixels in jpg or gif format.)

Contest Rules:

• No nudity (Which includes but is not limited to: No bare female nipples, or genitals or groin area of any fleshy female or male figures of any sort, nor any completely bare buttocks)
• Postwork is allowed
• Any software can be used
• Two (2) entries per person allowed
• Collaborations are not allowed
• Violence is permitted as long as remains within the TOS guidelines
• The image must be your own original creation. Also, by uploading your entry you are certifying that all models used in the image are free from print and publication restrictions
• One (1) prize maximum per winner will be awarded
• The image must comply with Renderosity's Terms of Service
• Entries may not appear online anywhere else except this contest page during the contest or until the Contest Winners have been Posted. (Contest submissions may NOT be posted in the artist's Renderosity gallery)
• All entries will be reviewed before being posted
• We reserve the right to reject entries that may not be suitable for this contest
• Open to all Renderosity members except Sponsors, Judges, Admins and Bondware employees

Judging:

• Images will be judged by a panel based on the following criteria:
  

  1. Artistic creativeness (originality)
  2. Composition of artwork
  3. Overall Feel and imagery
  4. Technical merit
  5. Adherance to the Contest Theme

• The winning entries will be selected by a Judging Panel - the Panel's decision is final
• Judges will perform independent reviews of the submissions
• Open to all Renderosity members except Sponsors, Judges, Admins and Bondware employees