This round we had a few entries for the topic of education/school and tea. While there were some great efforts, @lizelle's Tea for Two was a real stand out with a lovely selection.

^{Congratulations @lizelle, 10 Hive is heading your way.}

I occurred to me that a few tips on preparing images for use in Hive posts might be helpful:

First of all is worth remembering that for a lot of posts most people are after an image that can be thumbnail for the post. Some might want other images too, but this image will be the one they use to draw attention to their post. It will ideally clearly represent the topic they are writing about and should be landscape like the thumbnails. So as much as possible you should try to provide at least some images in landscape.

Then consider how well your image represents the given topic, but get creative as well. People are more likely to use images which are clear, good quality and hopefully stand out a bit from the crowd.

Each week our lovely moderators take turns to do a highlights post on a topic of their choosing. They select images that have stood out or caught their eye. The latest highlight will always be pinned in the community if you want to get an idea of some good representative images.

This round we'll keep the topic prompts the same, because we could really use some more images on these topics. Don't forget topic suggestions are very welcome.

How it works

The challenges will run every two weeks. Each round we will have a topic or two for our contributors to try their hand at. We invite everyone to give their feedback on any entries and the best one will win Hive. Meanwhile, we ask anyone who has been looking to use images to tell us what they are looking for in the comments on this post and these suggestions will be put forward as the challenge topics for future competitions, with the suggesting account added as a beneficiary of that challenge post. They will also be invited to judge any entries and pick their favourite submission. If they also choose to use a submission, then all the better. You don't have to be currently looking for images to suggest them, you can suggest anything you may have used or wanted to use in the past or that you think might be in demand.

We invite people to add an upvote to their favourite suggestions and this will play a part in which ones will be selected first for the next challenge.

This round's challenge topics will be:

1:

Celebrations

2:

First aid

3:

Meditation

Rules

• No plagiarism (obviously).
• Think quality. Will someone want to use your image if it's blurry or badly laid out? Low quality posts will be muted in the search feature
• Make sure you're tagging your submissions correctly.
• Make sure your images fall within legal restrictions for stock images.
• Submit your entry links in a comment on this post, so we don't miss it.
• All images are accepted, not just photographs, as long as they are your own.

We have Hive for the winning entries. All quality entries will be nominated for curation if they aren't already well rewarded. Votes will be given on all good suggestions for images, with the chosen suggestion/s added as a beneficiary on the next challenge post.

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Are you looking for specific stock images to use? Please view the Stock Images Main index where you can search by alphabetical order genre. This will be updated periodically as more images are added. We also now have a search feature, which is being improved as we go, so please feel free to give feedback on it.

_{Camera image by @bantamuda.}