Hopefully everyone had a good break over the Christmas and new year period. The Stock Images team took a little break and are returning refreshed this week. The closing challenge last year didn't get a lot of responses, but @shrazi added some Christmas themed graphics and @lizelle has a little Hive headed her way for sharing one her amazing food image posts. This lady has a passion for cooking and is pretty amazing at presenting it on camera too!

This week we had a post from @ahmadmanga who noticed we were missing some images for the topic of minimalism. As we have The Minimalist community here on Hive, I feel like it would be a great gap to fill. It's an active and growing community whose members often use stock images in their posts. Do you think you can fill the gap?

_{Thank you @ahmadmanga for the topic idea, you have been added to this round's beneficiaries.}

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 topic will be:

1:

Minimalism

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.

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.}