I'm wrapping up a little early this round, as we'll be at my daughter's for her 21st birthday tomorrow.

I realise that this round the challenges were really quite tough. I was fully expecting not to have any entries, but I've been blown away by the effort that has gone into the ones we've had!

For the prompt FIRE we had three submissions:

https://peakd.com/hive-118554/@asklanbudi/stock-images-burn-the-candles
https://peakd.com/hive-118554/@iodacasamia/fire-challenge-hive-stock-images-engita
https://peakd.com/hive-118554/@gamessteam/stockimages-fire-match-illustration-images

Then for the even tougher challenge of a city affected by extreme conditions we had just one submission, but it was just what @ligayagardener was looking for:

https://peakd.com/hive-118554/@iodacasamia/city-scene-challenge-hive-stock-images-engita

All the submissions showed great effort, but I was particularly impressed with @gamessteam's fun matchstick people by the fire and lighting candles; also @iodacasamia's cityscape. So they are this round's winners.

Congratulations, 10 Hive each is heading your way!

Sadly this round we didn't get any image suggestions, so the beneficiary which would normally go there will be added to the liquidity for prizes for the next round.

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 week's challenge topics will be:

1:

Sword

2:

Celebration

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 prizes 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.

_{Camera image by @bantamuda.}