I think it may seem that the standard has 'dropped' because of the Bryce offers recently, making it more accessible and so creating  more new users (but of course  the number of members has increased alot in the past few months) .  But yadda yadda, that's already been mentioned in previous posts. 

I as an amateur  am glad there is a site like this where I can post my images, hopefully get some good critical feedback, and improve. We all have to start somewhere , and Sunset hunter makes good points about giving feedback.  I also like the mix of newbie and pro here, and have seen great work at both ends of the experience scale.

Beginners tutorials for Bryce

Bryce Arena