PPM is now accepting nominations for 2026 Photo Challenge topics. Club members should submit a single challenge topic in the comments. Topics can also be sent via email to Pauline Beck or Bill Herndon.
Once we have the topics list, we’ll vote on them using ranked-choice voting in a post that will go up on the PPM site in about two weeks (28 April). Each member can vote for 3 topics, assigning 3 points to their favorite topic, 2 points to the second favorite, and a single point to the third favorite.
The 6 topics with the most votes will be announced at the Club’s May meeting.
The following 18 topics (from the last three year’s challenges) are not eligible for renomination:
- 2023
- Roots
- Landscape
- Fog
- Boats
- Bird
- Humorous
- 2024
- Reflection
- Movement
- Time Exposure
- Shadows
- Texture
- Pets
- 2025
- Macro Photography
- Church
- Neon Lights
- Transportation
- Rain
- Disarray
PPM 
Color-pop
(This is a photo that emphasizes a single color against a uniform background color, usually grey, white, or black. This can be accomplished with careful composition or technically using desaturation.)
Moon
(for Dixie Lowin)
Turtle
(for Ruth Baer)
Moving water
(for Richard Yehl)
portraits
Trees
(for Howard Vrankin)
Construction/Destruction
(for Tom Deming)
Oddities & Curiosities
(for Pauline Beck: Remember Steve’s “Rain” challenge photo with the rain chain and the woman’s feet in fishnet stockings?)
Architecture
(for Karren Jeske)
Water Reflections
(for Michael Jeske)
In suspense
(for Nancy Chu)
Flower(s)
(for Steve Stonecipher)
Symmetry
(for Cathy Dixon)