Frog, I know I am a recent member here at PR.com, and have yet to participate in the photo project forum, but I do think it is a great thing to have. I am the webmaster on one forum and a Mod on another and I have noticed that these other two forums have had low activity historically from november to march. I think with the holidays and the fact that a good portion of the member base is in the winter season this slows down activity. In one of the other forums I participate, we have a project forum and it has it s highs and lows.

The forum where I serve as webmaster, we have a "tag" forum. In this forum we start with a subject like a shot of a bridge, the next to post has to post a shot of another bridge or bridge theme and then submit a new tag, maybe a silhouette of a flower. The next to post will take a flower picture or a silhouette or a silhouette of a flower to claim that tag and then post the next tag. This continues on and on. The thing that I like about this is that it does not put the owness of keeping things fresh on the Mods shoulders as with every post there is a fresh tag to claim. This also serves the same purpose as a project in the fact that it's aim is to get people out there shooting and a reason/subject to shoot.

I am not necessarily suggesting that you change the project forum, only throwing out options. Also, as you seem to be a moderator short, it may help ease your strain if members could suggest project subjects. Since we are this close to the start of the year, if 5 people gave 2 subjects that would take us to the end of the year. Put them in a list Feb-Dec and there we have it 2013 projects. Of course people would want to keep the subject matter simple to allow everyone to participate. For example, don't choose snow men when half our country does not get snow. This would at least help you in not having to keep coming up with a new subject each month. As for the getting featured photos posted, I do not have any thoughts as this seems like an issue of someone having a busy schedule and large workload.

Here are a few suggestions for projects. I would suggest that people look at these in the broad sense or abstract. We are photographers be creative.


Architecture- buildings, bridges, houses, spider web. be creative
Leadership - coach, mayor, teacher, boss, a mother duck leading her chicks
New life. - New born, spring flowers, car coming off an assembly line, recycling plant
Things that Fly- I hope people don't need help with this.
Winning- sports, spelling bee, vegas, lotto ticket, state fair/carnival games.

Hope this is of some help to you Frog, and by the way thanks for all you have done to help make this a wonderful site. I look forward to contributing more.