II am missing the Graphics.com challenge

lucdesaulniers

Hi All. Been real busy. So sorry for my long silence. Still very busy but I wouldn't mind a little challenge outside the work creative. Something to let me go wild like we use to do. Chris, any chance of them coming back?

Cheers!

(Note: I very much dislike Facebook,..)
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DavidMac · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:17 pm Post subject:

Quite a few of us feel the same way. There have a number of attempts to revive them but response wasn't always very encouraging.

Pity ...........

lucdesaulniers · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:45 pm Post subject:

Eftelibra · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:21 pm Post subject:

I miss the challenges and reading all the comments from everyone. Not much going on here at all now.

Nice to hear from you Luc and David. Hope all is well with you both.

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DavidMac · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:12 am Post subject:

Like you Luc I am wholly disenchanted by Facebook.

I see your little helper is now in Chef mode. Since it is way off topic for challenges I have posted a separate post specially for him here in general discussion under Kitchen Wall E

DavidMac · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:23 am Post subject:

HI Efte

I am fine. Very quiet at present. Spent a huge chunk of year before last and early part of last year back in Bollywood shooting a romantic comedy with Kareena Kapoor - a ver big star there.

Promised Ingrid I would stay at home for a while after so long away - so catching up on all kinds of stuff here.

David Mac

vootie · Senior Site Admin Joined: Nov 12, 2001 Posts: 2640

Well, I miss the challenges as well. Their days of glory were back when Graphics.com was owned by Jupiterimages, and they were able to supply very generous prizes of stock photo subscriptions. And I was able to tap those image libraries for coming up with all the challenges. I tried various approaches in the years that followed but for whatever reason, participation trailed off. I didn't see the point in running challenges with just a few entries, so I reluctantly ended them. I revived tham at one point by popular request, but they didn't catch fire.

That said, I'd be more than happy to organize them once again. To do so, I'd just need a model with a chance of sustaining itself.

Let the suggestions commence!
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DavidMac · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:19 pm Post subject:

I have to confess that, for me, the best challenge era was the Photos.com era. Three months subscription was a prize worth gunning for. I don't want to suggest that I did it only for the prize - I hope you all know me better than that.

But I can't deny that it was a great incentive .......

lucdesaulniers · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:08 pm Post subject:

lucdesaulniers · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:11 pm Post subject:

I agree with David, it was a nice incentive but was not the core of it. Maybe for some other participants it was. In my case it was the number of people participating.
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thebags · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:31 am Post subject:

I miss the comradery between the members, the great images, and the fun of learning new methods from all of the great artists who posted their images. Mostly I miss my friends!!!
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