I've noticed that too. My "best-ranked" images so to speak are or traditional images (usually variations on Julias, "enhanced" by Ultrafractal) or flames. I'm not very fond of all kinds of flames, but when they are beautiful, they for sure stand out of all the other images. I don't feel intimidated by playing with "old stuff", sometimes it's very refreshing to just zoom in a Julia and find something new. I am not using Fractint as much as before, but it's still there. I'm not much into making very complicated compositions. When I like something and it has just one layer, every time I try to add something to that image it gets destroyed so I keep it as it is. I also import old Fractint images (the "Orgforms", hated by some) and change them in UF - the changes are surprising sometimes. I also noticed that whenever a new formula/coloring method is available, there's a flood of images using these methods/formulas, and something that was once beautiful soon lose its initial appeal and gets boring. Then it's time to go back to the old stuff.