I sort of like the open-endedness of the challenges.... not that I participate all that much in them, so it doesn't really matter all that much to me. :~) But what I mean by open-ended is the fact that the member is not given a strict definition of the theme. They can form their own ideas about what the theme means to them..... For example "opposites"..... black/white, circles/squares, straight/crooked and so on and so forth.... I do have to admit though, that I feel the challenges could be more educational, in terms of learning a technique or specific theory...... that was always an area that Misha and could never quite figure out how to incorporate into them. Seems those choices never got chosen from the list. I remember well before I became a moderator, we had a challenge called Leading Lines.... I struggled and struggled with it, brought quite a few images to the forum for review.... In the end none of them seemed to work... but I sure learned a lot from it. Maybe something along the lines of a learning series for the forum, as a seperate thing? Just an idea, and one that I might be willing to work on, if I could find the time, and willing members to participate......

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