Seasonal Portraiture Contest: The Results!The Seasonal Portraiture contest that launched as part of the group launch of ~PeopleAndPortraits had some FANTASTIC entries. The judges have finished selecting their choices and we've colloborated them all together to determine the final winners. But huge congratulations to everybody who entered, your entries were fabulous. You can read about the contest here and browse the entries here. Without further ado - here are the winners!
The Results
1st Place

*Swamptiki
2nd Place

=del-rae
3rd Place

=Miguel-Santos
Honourable Mentions

~KeepOnSingingMySong
:bigthum

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Love the Stache!Hi everyone

Movember is quickly coming to a close and the shave-off events are eagerly awaited by our Mo'Bros who have suffered through all sorts of mo-mishaps over the last 28 days. For those of you that have participated, I thank you and ask you to make the last two days really count and reach out to your friends and families for those last minute donations.
For the rest of you, I am making this final push on behalf of all of the deviantART Sta.sh teams to request that you reach into your pockets and make a donation, regardless of how big or small, to the Movember effort. I realize how hard this may be considering you're likely broke after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but should you find a dollar or two - we would greatly appreciate your donation

The amount isn’t important, every little bit helps Movember continue its funding of world-class programs. If you want to know more about what you’ll be helping to fund, you can visit

Make a Difference #185Artists join deviantART to share their art and appreciate others. Due to the many artists out there, it's easy to get towed under and generally obscured from the public.
Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconxeeshan-ch: captures the moment exceptionally well, many of his pieces filled with colour to really draw you into the piece in question. It is clear that, through patience, ~xeeshan-ch captures those photographs in which time is wonderfully suspended.

~xeeshan-ch's Gallery
:iconancientpoet: poetry has awesome rhythm and rhyme, the flow

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Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconNitrok: photographs are fascinating! Not only are they all so wonderfully coloured and profound in their own individual way, the subject matters are captured in an amazing perspective too.

~Nitrok's Gallery
:iconextranzia:'s poetry is evocative from the brilliant use of rhythm and rhyme. Concepts are conveyed to us with profound imagery, making

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~Sssssergiu

~GZB

*BootlessInWonderland

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Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconnooreva: It's brilliant to see something that we don't normally come across! Many of the photographs in this deviant's fantastic gallery clearly shows this. Not only are they of the highest quality, but they are very intriguing too.

*nooreva's Gallery
:iconforgotten-reaper: uses rhythm and rhyme to profound effect. The words included are well

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Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconkapanaga:'s black and white, square photography is visually captivating. The square format works exceptionally well with the subject matters captured, and the atmosphere in many of the photographs is truly profound too.

~kapanaga's Gallery
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~Nijn88

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~msteenphotographer

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Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconRobinHalioua:'s landscapes are magnificent and awe-inspiring. The lighting and colours are both key features that work together so well to convey a scenery that is pretty mesmerising indeed!

*RobinHalioua's Gallery
:iconbleedthedream180:'s poetry is profound in concept, further highlighted through the brilliant use of rhythm and rhyme. Th

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Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconselene-emotion: Motion is fantastically captured in quite a lot of :devselene-emotions:'s shots. The concepts are also often intriguing in the way they give us new insight into topics as well.

~Selene-Emotion's Gallery
:icondearpoetry:'s literature is wonderfully experimental sometimes, but mostly liberated in form and phrasing. Her poe

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Make a Difference aims to do exactly that. This series of articles will hopefully make a difference to you as well as the artists featured weekly. Just by giving one minute of your time to write constructive comments, favourites and even watches will make a difference to these artists.
:iconrosaarvensis:'s photographs are refreshing in their naturalness. Though containing a feeling of simplicity, there is great profundity too as we are shown beauties that we may not have fully appreciated before.

=rosaarvensis's Gallery
:icontreo-legigeo: gets to the main point of the written piece in a concise manner, creating an awesome im

All Snapped Up .3 ~ melvynyeo~ An interview of a talented artist in our General Photography Community

*melvynyeo, tell us a bit about yourself. How did you get into photography and why?
My name is Melvyn and I’m a designer. Photography has been my passion and hobby ever since I picked up a point and shoot camera 7 years ago. My main “focus” has always been insect macrophotography.
Why are you on deviantART and what makes you stay?
I chanced upon deviantART when searching for photos on the net for inspiration about 6 years ago. What really amazed me and make me stay is because there are so many talented people actively participating in deviantART. It is like a big big family of artists and photographers!
What type of photography do you most like to do and why?
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#SixWordStories Feature: Nov. 19th - Dec. 3rd

by ^3wyl, Dec 3, 2012, 2:24:20 PM
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A type of Flash Fiction, six word stories are (very) short stories with an exact word count: six words. #SixWordStories is the place where, alongside quality, quantity really does matter. Though these stories are so brief in length, they can be as profound, if not more, than the prose and poetry you see and read every day, partly because six word stories can tell us so much and yet contain so little.

In our feature articles, we will be showcasing selections of the wonderful six word stories submitted to our bi-weekly word and theme prompts. New bi-weekly prompts will also be announced here.

Word Prompt: Odd

FisticuffsCall me odd?

Now we're even.

Odd"Hamper Crumpets!"
"What an odd man..."

Time Heals All Scars?Odd...Time passed; scars still linger.

OddOdd, he and I became we.

Existence."Odd is all we are, right?"

Love no matter what

You're odd and I love you.

Coupling"You and I? Quite odd indeed..."

Weirdo"You're Odd..."
"And? Everyone is."
"...somewhat."

Dibs.Odd number of scones. Two people.

Word Prompt: OddHis walking looked odd.
He limped.

Volume Setting: 27But odd numbers bother my OCD!

Odd?Odd?

Two plus three?

Or me?

6 story word 12

Odd, world stops spinning. Life continues.

Theme Prompt: Left

DirectionalTurn Right.

Wrong.

Then Left...

Continue.

Left"She's really gone..."
...
"I really left..."

LeftStranger, he left me. Half dead.

And in Opposite Directions is Where We'll Go... ------------->
I went Right
You Left me

*Left Right Left*Left, right, left, best foot forward.

2012 Delice1941
20th November2012

Criss-cross"I'm sorry," you said, fingers crossed.

Left behindWait-! I- !

...

I'll just wait here.

Leaving..."Open the door. I can't leave..."

Left Surprising peripheral hauntings
chilling past left.

Lovingly OppositeWhen she goes right, I go -

The end of a relationship and beginning of anotherHate left me. Love found me.

SWS -- LeftSinistral, she scribbled with satanic speed.

Our LoveLeft;
Back Again,
Then Gone Forever.

Unhand MeDexter was right:

Lefty was sinister.

Going... Going... Gone.Another girl sold,
Families left crying.

Left-HandedSilver bands, heart-connected, always seen.

6 word story 11

I..am...the only human left.

The Next Round of Bi-Weekly Prompts!

Word Prompt: Eye
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Theme Prompt: Trophies
-> Submission Folder

Submissions for these prompts will be accepted from Monday, December 3rd to Monday, December 17th.

Please take into account the Prompt Guidelines before submission.

Also be sure to read our guidelines about what makes a six word story.

Suggestions

If you have suggestions for a prompt that we could do, send us a note with the subject Prompt Idea! and make sure to include what type of Prompt it is for (either 'Word' or 'Theme').

If you have queries regarding prompts, contact don't hesitate to contact us!

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~magicalisis Dec 11, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Thanks for the feature!!!

~Crazie-Girl Dec 4, 2012

Thanks for the feature

*SurrealCachinnation Dec 4, 2012 Student Writer

Thank you so much for the features!

Ooooh, I like those new prompts... Ideas are already beginning to form in my mind.

^3wyl Dec 4, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

I'm glad!

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~Jomse Dec 4, 2012

Thanks for the feature!

*Delice1941 Dec 4, 2012

Enjoyable feature, many thanks

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