Laurie,

Your earings look like they will be a wonderful addition to any runtime.

Monkeycloud,

Thank You. I was pretty sure I had seen two of the images that were in the contest had previous won past contests, so I was shooting for a 3rd place finish, so I did way better then I hoped to. Having Bill say mine was technically the best was pretty sweet on it's own (though afterwords I considered almost everything in there was his shaders). Every time someone picks one of your images it feels pretty dang good. I'm sure for the pro's it's a meh moment, but for an amateur, it feels pretty good. My only disappointment was right after reading basicwiz's message, power fluxed, shut down the computer and lost two days of rendering with only two rows to go.