Isn't it time to update the Gallery section at www.blender3d.org? The images are starting to seam a little bland in relation to what is being created at the moment by many Blender artists.
The Gallery section is actually very important since lots of people will check it out before downloading Blender. Also, they can prove that Blender is capable of creating stunning images.

Here is a thread on elysiun with some amazing gallery content:

http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14558&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=120

Just browsing around the "Fineshed Projects" forum on elysiun also gives some surprisingly amazing results.