Bela Beleza

Had to grin. A witty and eye-twinkling advice. If - i believe its better to enter competitions on small Second life groups where one is already known, so that is not a real competition but a social activity amongst "friends".

Maybe there are 2 main ways to make pics in SL. One is about a snapshot, the other is about arrangement. When being in a roleplay or anyways interacting with environment and people then its a challange to make pics "shot from the hip". This includes, when I do that, lower graphic settings because of the perfomance issues i would have otherwise. The technical quality is often low. Depending on the success (composition) of such it's worth the time to pretty it up with photoshop but due to lazyness I do that seldom. The second way is the arrangement, which uses a mix of full setting of graphics, technical skills (composition, lighting and such) and afterwork with PS or so. Sometimes i like to try so, too, and its fun. I admire the results of others when i see them on Flickr i.e and despite its real good handicraft showing with I also see seldom real originality but often a kinda streamlined or mainstream-style - the second life style. I often can not see the real second life in them no more. But the beauty of such pics is nonetheless breathtaking. Yet - i do not strike to follow that mainstream. Though I let myself get inspired. Since I do not even strike to be professional - i have no pressure and all is easy going.

"How does your SL look today?" "Ask me tomorrow again."

Now it's sure. It is gone.

A few days ago I vistited the place and the next day its no more there. Since now. It was the best compilation of the horror genre ever. Would be sad if its gone. I did ask the probably responsible creator but get no feedback until now. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Luxury Hills/142/69/1000 Would be nice to know if have to give up hope to be able to visit it again. Cheers.