I am not that proficient in Blender, and this has me baffled. I have it set to Cycles Render and I am using a single material that is Cycles also. I have a scene when the view port shading is set to rendered looks like this:
but this is what is rendered:
this is my outliner:
I had to add the outliner to the first image because you need 10 reputation points. really??
Any help would be appreciated.