I don’t understand well what falls into the Other category. Is it also digital art or should it be photos that don’t show nature?
Also I don’t know how to work with Blender but I would love to see some 3D wallpapers, maybe those would fall under the other category.
Hello @lapisdecor
I think it depends on your subject. Other category is a photo whose subject is not Nature.
Examples: A vehicle (bicycle, car, motorcycle boat), a building (house, temple, castle, hotel), etc. even if they are surrounded by Nature or not, what matters is your subject.
I saw a lot of beautiful photos in this thread that could completely be in the Other category and possibly be selected but they were posted as Nature. 
The other two categories depend if your photo, digital or traditional art, abstract or not contains a Numbat (the mascot) or not. If it does is Mascot category if it doesn’t is Digital/Abstract Art.
3D should follow the same rules as these last two categories.
In Resume:
Category Nature: Photo whose subject is Nature
Category Other: Photo whose subject is NOT Nature
Category Mascot: Photo or Art (Digital: 2D/3D or Traditional but not AI Generated) whose subject is the Ubuntu’s release mascot, this case the Numbat)
Category Digital/Abstract Art: Photo or Art (Digital: 2D/3D or Traditional but not AI Generated) whose subject is NOT the Ubuntu’s release mascot, this case the Numbat)
@aaronprisk please correct me if I’m wrong. This is what I understood. I don’t want to pass the wrong information. 
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I think you are right but there should be a 3D category. This is fun, I just started learning blender because of it 
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Couldn’t resist all the inspiration in this thread. Tried another mascot model. Hope you will like it
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Title: Glass Wave 1
Author: Alastair Temple
Category: Abstract/Digital
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Light Mode:
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And because I am new and can only imbed one image in a post, here is the dark mode version.
Dark Mode:
(the compression has not been nice to it so here is an external link: https://i.postimg.cc/Qxy8qZfC/Glass-Wave-1-Dark-Mode.jpg)
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I’d definitely go with the dark one. (But then again, I just seem to prefer dark themes and wallpapers, for some reason.)
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I have actually just set it as my own background now haha, but I know sometimes OS’s like to have dark and light mode versions of the same wallpaper (it’s in the Gnome recommendations linked in the inital post for example), so figured I could render out two different colourways for that use. If one of them gets chosen then the option is always there to include both for that purpose
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That is correct: Gnome likes to have a light and dark version of every wallpaper. I, too, find dogfooding wallpapers nice. Design something, prop it on your screen, see how you feel about it a couple of days later, etc.
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Exactly, you’re spot on!
If anyone is unsure of what their category they should submit to, feel free to ask.
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We love the dark/light variants! We’ve had a few excellent ones in some of our past competitions that were selected.
When it comes to voting, we’ll bundle them together into one entry as to not split their votes.
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Ahh! I see, I was also not aware of how it works. I should publish the dark version as well.
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Fuwafuwa Nanbatto-san (ふわふわ ナンバットさん) - Mascot
Sir Fluffy Numbat (English Translation)
Yume/Dark Version
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Nice picture, but I don’t think anyone has a square monitor!
ok, i had a few ideas
Title: Numb Glass
Author: Emanuele Santoro
Category: Mascot Theme
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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