The theme of Challenge 89 is WATER. Water is the great elixir, the miracle of nature. Water gives life to everything on earth. Jacques Ives Cousteau called Earth the blue planet because water covers 2/3 of the surface and from outer space it is mostly blue with a few white clouds (clouds are water too). That’s the water planet we live on.
The theme is WATER AS THE MAIN SUBJECT. Of course, water includes snow, ice, fog, clouds, rainfall, spray, water in a waterfall or a fountain, water in a glass, bowl or pitcher, a snowman, icicles, muddy waters, a swirling river, a tumbling creek, crashing waves, the ocean and anywhere water occurs. But water must be the main subject, not the reservoir, fountain, rock formation, shoreline, bridge, culvert pipe, or the thing that holds the water. The subject is THE WATER.
For example, the image can be water splashing off a fountain, but not a portrait of the statue of Venus that happens to have water running over her lovely figure. The image could be a river eddy swirling or cascading, but the riverbank and surrounding forest should not be the main subject. The theme is not a scenic landscape with water in the photo. The images have to convey water as the main subject, in all its natural beauty.