I like our vibrant and active photo forums here, but don't you think there's too many of them and they're all scattered. I never find the right place to post my pictures! Frankly it's exhausting.
Some of my thoughts, what I am seeing.
My proposal:
Simplify, simplify, simplify! I would personally go for the following division, which will ignore the technical details of the photo and focus on the genre:
Infrared/UV photographs are most probably "Nature & Landscape"; post there, maybe under a dedicated megathread or by all means start a new post with a nice flair.
Even this division is so artificial and introduces hard decisions about where to post!
Alternative proposal. I just might go all the way in:
Combine everything we have into just two forums*. One forum contains all the megathreads and the other contains invididual's posts. Use flairs to give a little color. Our community is not very huge so this could probs be a welcome concentration of content. I don't know, what do I know?
(*)Maybe contest and challenge things deserve their subforum.
Some of my thoughts, what I am seeing.
- "Words / No Words". Nice idea but in practice has anyone seen anyone making a critique or unwanted remark on a post? This place is too nice, and W/NW concept is superfluous -- the whole place is WNW de facto!
- Herman's Genres. Wonderful ideas and inspiration to be sure, but couldn't these be part of the existing subforums such as Color, Action, Street.
- For that matter, Color and B/W subforums themselves could go because nobody's preventing you from posting a small gallery in BW in Street Photography subforum for example.
- Stroll Photography. I don't know man, I don't know. What's the purpose?
My proposal:
Simplify, simplify, simplify! I would personally go for the following division, which will ignore the technical details of the photo and focus on the genre:
- Sports and Action (admittedly this is very small subforum as is)
- Strolling (and) the Streets (Stroll + Street)
- People and Portrait
- Nature and landscapes (including Macro, Nature, the relevant landscape threads that are scattered around)
- Quests and Challenges (combine Photo Challenges and Image Quest)
Infrared/UV photographs are most probably "Nature & Landscape"; post there, maybe under a dedicated megathread or by all means start a new post with a nice flair.
Even this division is so artificial and introduces hard decisions about where to post!
Alternative proposal. I just might go all the way in:
Combine everything we have into just two forums*. One forum contains all the megathreads and the other contains invididual's posts. Use flairs to give a little color. Our community is not very huge so this could probs be a welcome concentration of content. I don't know, what do I know?
(*)Maybe contest and challenge things deserve their subforum.