What do you think is the reason for the decline in contest entries?

I think it´s all connected to the decline and fall of the roman empire. When Romulus Augustus was deposed, there was a fall in the world alcohol consumption, that could have led in the decrease of the creative resources, resulting in a complete lack of PS skills. With the lack of skills and creativity, lots of people give up posting. Some think that by simply posting everyday and having tons of friendly votes, their skills and creativity will increase (like XXXXXX name withheld). Others think they´re already great choppers due to the ammount of friendly votes they get (like XXXXXXX name withheld). But they´re wrong, and the prove is the number of entries in the latest contests. Back in the old days you had a competition of 75+ entries a day, where there were at least 17 entries worth making top3. Nowadays, you have a TOTAl of 17 entries in a contest. Some may blame the international financial crisis, but I say it´s all about the decline and fall of the roman empire. It´s ALL connected. Once in a while, a few members of our secret society (I cannot tell further details on the secret society because it is secret), post in daily contests. We still practice ancient techniques to stimulate creativity, some from the good old Bacchus´ time, some a little more evoluted. That´s what keeps the contest alive, otherwise PSC would be dead. Part of it is fault of the dutchies and aussies. I won´t go into details, but you know it´s true. It´s a conspiracy!! A CONSPIRACY!! Some want to blame the canadians. That´s not true. They have nothing to do with it. I know that cause I saw the files, and I can assure you it´s not the canadians fault. Belgians are just a strategic distraction. But it´s all really italian´s fault. The fall of Constantinople is also connected, but that´s probably subject to another talk.

H2H and sources

I find them boring. I find them similar, similar, similar, and even more similar.
People=head shots. Structures=taken at odd angles.
Objects = dirty, uninspired, unattractive, un-inspiring objects.
Animals smaller than a bread box= you get the whole animal. Take your pick- dead or blurry.
You have the same few people shooting pics, and voting for images.
They lack clean, organic objects. Color Palettes. They lack clean pattern w/out insurmountable varying highlights.
You know what's wrong with a man standing out in the middle of a field? Nothing. it's a great source. Where is it?
June 3..good source...three others fairly decent to mediocre, and the rest are going to inspire very little, and even then are not going to make very attractive images.
I could go on all day. I am utterly dissatisfied with the sources we get for contests. Utterly.
There's every opportunity to turn people on with sources. National flags, current hit movie characters, scenes from football championships, millions of textile samples, tech gear, designer products, there's endless opportunity for variation, but
The simplest answer is. Go look at the images for h2h, and compare to advantage calendar for the next month. Pretty obvious difference dontcha think?

Shit sources. Obviously.

Notice as soon as we get a good fun (easy to chop?) source (the giraffe head) we get a slew of very good entries and a good overall turnout.

Do you REALLY want easy? and What makes a good source? Is it a bad source to everyone? I understand blurry or grainy would be bad but if it's clear and not grainy isn't it good? Are we just getting lazy as, not as choppers but as thinkers?

Back to 7 days advantage and none of this vote for a source, what ya get is what ya use...a poor workman should never blame the tools he has if the source is crappy make it un crappy, low res or poor colour use your skills to improve it or create some thing better. That's what this place is about, in saying that subject matter plays a big part in ideas but to easy and then we have more entries but there all the same.

My 2cents worth...well that's only about .003% of the old value

Back to 7 days advantage and none of this vote for a source, what ya get is what ya use...a poor workman should never blame the tools he has if the source is crappy make it un crappy, low res or poor colour use your skills to improve it or create some thing better. That's what this place is about, in saying that subject matter plays a big part in ideas but to easy and then we have more entries but there all the same.

My 2cents worth...well that's only about .003% of the old value

These images we should all use our skills to fix up. I notice none of the images you've 'fav'd' started out with images like this.
Game-set-match

If you look at the images of others that you have favorited. You will find that the overwhelming majority of them started with sources such as the ones I described. Including patterns, and color palettes.

Back to 7 days advantage....

glennanna's kinda weird or has good bud.

I'm just weird. Keep that bud crap away from me.