I agree with Enax. IMHO, for your personal work, you shoot what you want, the way you want and in the format you want. If other people like it, that's really nice. If not, each to his/her own. What matters is, do you like it? Does it show what you wanted to show in the way you wanted to show it? If you begin to try and shoot what will "win" I think in the end you're going to drive yourself crazy trying to guess what the current crop of judges wants and you'll probably end up pretty disgusted with photography because you are no longer making your art. I think it's very interesting to "see" my photos through other peoples eyes (good or bad), but I'm not going to change the way I shoot or what I shoot to please them.