I've been so out of the loop with these challenges. Which is a shame, because I've been joining in since its inception. Perhaps that's part of the problem -- it's been, what, three years and since then other challenges have popped up that are more directly in line with the site's intentions. Maybe a little bit of staleness has crept into the edges.
But just looking at the voting poll for last month, I'm really surprised by how many people are voting in the challenge. That's really good to see, because it was definitely petering off some around the time I stopped having time for the competition.
Part of the reason for that, my not having time -- and probably one thing that I do disagree with in terms of entries -- is because I always go out and purposefully look for a photo to take, or set one up. Anyone who was also around at the start of the competition knows that I once set a patch of my garden on fire trying to set up a photo for this and that's what made it fun (well, not the arson). Like the writing challenge it should be something created for the competition, not 'do I have a photo somewhere that fits this theme?'
My tuppence anyway, though I probably have been too out of it to make a proper comment on any aspects of the challenge recently.
Oh, but as a final note, as one who has been notorious for some crazy-hard themes, I don't mind them so much, but it was quite cool to get themes that appealed directly to photography such as macro, light, portrait, etc.
