A little history about these on-going challenges. The Thursday Informal Challenge (what evolved into the Weekly Informal Challenge) began as a good idea to have something fun with a changing topic posted by Bev Harrison and Lee R. back in the Fall of 2006 with participation from a loyal and international group of PaDders. Soon after that (January 2007) it hit me that while I was often working on a monthly theme or method in my PaDding for practice others might enjoy also participating so the monthly challenges in this forum began and continued. The first theme was a
B&W January challenge. We fumbled around and submitted new forum posts for each new day until we realized how this was "clogging" up the forum (just go back a page from the link above and see).
These picked up regularity in the Spring of 2007 with "Trees" in April and "Shoes and Souls" in May and pretty much kept on running forward. Prior to 2007 these were mostly friendly challenges with individuals messaging each other and joining in often with links to the others participating shown on our daily entries. That got to be time-consuming.
I just say this to point out that the reason this started was for the exercise and interaction. It may have evolved into something else (which is fine) over the last several years but the point was to pick something we could focus on for a month to work on and improve ourselves as photographers. Over the years I have seen people participate and inspire with everything from film, scanners, P&S, phones and DSLRs with amazing results. Again, one of the points of challenges is to stretch us.
I thought it would be good to throw this into the mix to better describe where I'm coming from in the original post at the beginning. I'm not trying to step on any ones toes. I have enjoyed these monthly challenges in all forms for a long time. I enjoy participating when the time allows. I see no sense in running two different since a BIG part is the interaction.
So...
What if the theme is "Water/Liquid"? If anyone wants to add a technical aspect (like Walter mentioned having done all of April) then that would be the icing on the cake. I would love it if we pick a theme and others want to pin point something even more defined (like "Water in B&W", "Water in Motion", "Water Abstracts", "Liquid Color" etc.) and share it with us as you start out on the month so we can watch, learn, share, encourage and comment throughout the journey.
Sorry for the long post.