Wetpixel POTW competition not dead yet

I've charged up the Wetpixel Picture of the Week competition, so head on over there and submit your best shots! This week's theme is Swimming.

POTW link: http://wetpixel.com/competition/

The moderators are running a little dry on creativity these days, and we need your help to come up with some new themes. Any suggestions? List 'em here.

To help us think of other themes, do you have a quick reference list we can refer to as to what you have had before please?

Woody

Good idea, Woody. here you go:

111 Sharks and Rays (x2)

112 Reefscapes (x2)

113 Conservation (x2)

114 fish faces (x2)

115 wrecks (x2)

116 Natural Light (x3)

117 Eye Contact (x2)

118 Super Macro

119 Schools (x3)

120 Sunballs (x2)

121 nudi (x2)

122 squids (x2)

123 octopus (x2)

124 Soft Coral (x2)

125 Plants (x2)

126 couples (x2)

127 Camouflage (x2)

128 night shot (x2)

129 Jellyfish (x2)

130 Shrimps (x2)

131 crabs (x2)

132 the blue (x2)

133 The Shallows (x2)

134 the deep (x2)

135 Cold Water (x2)

136 Creepy Crawly

137 Black and White (x2)

138 Scales (x2)

139 In the Muck (x2)

140 Divers (x2)

141 Sea Fans and Gorgonians

142 Hunting Behavior

143 Spawning and Courting (x2)

144 Sea Stars (x2)

145 Upside Down (x2)

146 Polyps

147 Silhouettes (x2)

148 Natural Light (x3)

149 Patterns (x2)

150 Teeth (x2)

151 Soft Coral

152 Hard Coral

153 Super Macro

154 Coral Rainbows (x2)

155 Schooling Fish (x3)

156 Weird & Wonderful

157 Eye Contact (x2)

158 Light & Dark: Contrasts

159 Man-Made (x2)

160 Bubble Magic

161 Close-focus WA

162 Red (x2)

163 Cleaning Stations (x2)

164 Portraiture (x2)

165 Inches below the surface

166 Creative

167 Silver (x2)

168 Squat Lobsters

169 Clingfish (x2)

170 Crinoids

171 Frogfish (x2)

172 Commensalism

173 Gorgonians

174 Behavior

175 Abstract

176 Currents

177 Humor

178 Botched Shots

179 Movement

180 Drifters

181 Green

182 Worms

183 Fresh Water (x2)

184 Self-Portrait

185 Cetaceans

186 Pipefish

187 Seals and Sea Lions

188 Wrasses

189 Seahorses

190 Purple

191 Parrotfish (x2)

192 Prey

193 Yellow

194 Amphibians and Reptiles

195 Caves

196 Reflections

197 Family

198 Lonely

199 Neighbors

200 Orange

201 Freedom

202 Fish Faces (x2)

203 Reefscapes (x2)

204 Wrecks (x2)

205 Natural Light (x3)

206 Sunballs (x2)

207 Nudibranchs (x2)

208 Plants (x2)

209 The Blue (x2)

210 Crabs (x2)

211 The Shallows (x2)

212 Camouflage (x2)

213 Schools (x3)

214 Black and White (x2)

215 Scales (x2)

216 Red (x2)

217 Silhouettes (x2)

218 Sea Stars (x2)

219 Shrimp (x2)

220 Squid (x2)

221 Sharks and Rays (x2)

222 Night Shots (x2)

223 The Deep (x2)

224 Conservation (x2)

225 Octopus (x2)

226 In The Muck (x2)

227 Man-Made (x2)

228 Silver (x2)

229 Cleaning Stations (x2)

230 Portraiture (x2)

231 Frogfish (x2)

232 Spawning and Courting (x2)

233 Upside Down (x2)

234 Divers (x2)

235 Patterns (x2)

236 Cold Water (x2)

237 Coral Rainbows (x2)

238 Jellyfish (x2)

239 Couples (x2)

240 Teeth (x2)

241 Fresh Water (x2)

242 Clingfish and Remora (x2)

243 Parrotfish (x2)

244 Freedom

245 Black and White

246 Hard Coral

247 Silhouettes

248 Abstract

249 Fish Faces

250 Prey

251 Nudibranch, Cowries, Snails

252 Purple

253 Seals and Sea Lions

254 Yellow

255 Pipefish

256 Sea Stars

257 Reflections

258 Circles

259 Cetaceans

260 Fish Eye

261 Perspective

262 Depth

263 Sand

264 Ice

265 Imperfect

266 Polka Dots

267 Stripes

268 Frenzy

269 Light and Dark: Contrasts

270 Focus

271 Color Spectrum

272 Commensalism

273 Wrecks

274 Creative

275 Schools

276 Cephalopods

277 Nudibranchs

278 Silver

279 Wide-Angle

280 The Deep

281 Camoflauge

282 Movement

283 Macro

284 Meals

285 Sharks and Rays (x3)

286 Reefscapes (x3)

287 Conservation (x3)

288 fish faces (x3)

289 wrecks (x3)

290 RED

291 Swimming

292 Muck

293 Action

Marine Mammals, Whales, Dolphins, Seals, Otters, underwater models, wide angle macro, spawning. mandarin fish. harlequin shrimp, ribbon eels.

Men in tights

Babies

Flowers of the sea

Black & White (tribute to MJ? haha)

Pier legs?

Indirect light?

Bottom of dive boats?

Smile!?

Love/Mating?

Ear ear!

Eye eye!

...Nosey!

Sea snakes

Yikes!

Power

Panning, Speed, togetherness, passion, rare and unique moments, portfolio that tells a story(five low res images) ??, ...........

Cheers,

Diggy

Over Under

Propeller

Photographer

tenticle

buried

snorkeling/breathholding

pinnacle

anchor

surf

lights

war

new growth

symbiotic

transport

deco

pretty

walking

claws/pinchers

in the distance

shell

bad models

Water effects (halocline, thermocline or thermal ripple, runoff mineral colors in springs)?

Asymmetry

Diagonal framing (shots with a profound diagonal alignment to the subject matter)

MOON balls

Selective Focus (either depth of field or panning or offcenter framing type effects)

Parasitism (isopods on fish or whatnot)

Abstracts / Textures (darn it - already on your list)

Greatest screwups! (great framing but bad lighting or wrong metering, fin in the corner or bubbles ruining the shot)

Comedy (for some reason it's funny, like that shot of a turtle with crossed fins, or Eric's smiling baby turtle, or dumb diver stunts)

How many themes do you really need? I think it is OK to repeat themes. As a matter of fact, having a set theme schedule for the next year isn't a bad idea. Leave a couple of slots open "TBD" for new ideas. It's not like people don't take new pictures that can be entered in the next go around of a specific theme. Exclude previous winners or placers in the particular theme. People can plan out their submissions. They could plan whole dive trips around entering a WPOTW contest.

No fuss, no muss.

Creative filters.

The need for high definition images with w/a or high macro lenses is less but the need for a good strong image prior to manipulation might encourage those with lesser cameras and lower tecnique (like me) but who occasionally play with a strong image they have managed to capture. Like this from an Aldabra channel with a 3mp Cannon G1.

Tim Digger

feeding

Sponges

Shadows

Surface

Spirals

Shoals

Sex

Squid

Sunshine

Sucking/suckers

Splashes

Shooters

.... and so on....

Tim

feeding

Yeah, "what's for lunch?"

point and shoot cameras

Sportfishing

Commercial fishing

Research

Kids

Rivers and streams

Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions! I've queued up POTW contests for the coming year. Full list can be found here:

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11182

Good luck -- I'm sure there will be incredible shots coming in!