Traveller, You said "So while the Challenge has become incredibly small, it still motivates strongly those that remain. Or so I think."
You think correctly, at least in my case. I continue to have fun as I try to improve my artistic skills and vision. Without the challenge, I would get stuck on the technical side.
Yes, I know, I tried to rotate this image so they were falling....but that looked even odder, at least to me...
I find these trails to be interesting in that the flash must have freezed the "fatness," of the drops, but the motion was captured outside the quickness of the flash...hence the falling upward effect.
In any case I remain super busy in my life so I am just doing what I can...and obviously semi-failing at it....lol....;>}}}
But having fun...as a sort of serious note there are people that have left this challenge, eg XXX and YYY, that do not seem to be doing much work since leaving....I sense that we, as artists, need an audience to even try to do stuff.
So while the Challenge has become incredibly small, it still motivates strongly those that remain.
Or so I think.
Best Wishes, Traveller
Edit: I have removed the names from this post...discretion....(smile)