A nice title for the very first image of the challenge, and I thought it would be nice to have it as an introduction to all the images, as opposed to a picture with the theme of an introduction. I thought I could have a pic that refers to the challenge itself. And for something that’s been a lot of fun, I thought a fun image was only appropriate.

Since poor ole Alviss won’t get represented anywhere else in the challenge, and nor will I ever wear that costume again, having thrown away the top and not much wanting to make the effort to do my hair like that again for a very long time, so I thought I’d give him this slot. The photo is from the Saturday of Japan Ex ’07, and originally I was holding the ‘Y’ of a ‘YURI’ banner. I thought about including and from the original photo (here: [link]), but I don’t think they would’ve appreciated it very much!

To make things bright and cheerful, I decided to do some editing in a style influenced by ’s photoshopping, though she does things with vectors and generally does rather clever things in this style that I haven’t the foggiest how to emulate. Still, I think the result is nice and cheery and does a good job of opening the challenge!