Thanks Mick, I'm not good at (aesthetic) rules (although, say, know something about golden proportion, even its mathematical details), so could you please point out what rules are broken here (honestly, I was not aware of the fact that this photo breaks obvious rules)? Thanks.

If I would like to single out the photos which caught my eye so far I would mention OneTen's Round Tower and Hotblack's Spider Monkey.

I confess that lately I was not much active on this forum, mainly because I was at HRPC, it is a Croatian photowebsite, I'm originally form Croatia and partly I might like being there because it connects me with my home country, although I like England very much, but I like the photos there, the ability to have galleries with image storage space provided by the site (so far it is free but there are rumours that a membership fee will be introduced), the ability to comment on each photo (either in one's galleries or in competition), the ability to give favs to photos (one can give to each photo a favourite vote, but recently a negative vote too), competition with grading system, forum, etc., of course forum is not as near as active as AP forum, but most of the activity happens in the galleries and photo comments as well as in competitions.

I think that AP readers would welcome some similar site, say APPC, as, say, it would be convenient to have one's photos in once place, i.e. in various user's galleries hosted by the site, etc., nevertheless I understand that there are difficulties in finding the right software and hosting on the Internet for such a large amount of data, HRPC is maintained by an enthusiastic computer programmer, so the software in more or less not an issue (although every new version is full of bugs, the server is rather slow, and all does not look at a very professional level, but it works, more or less), the restrictions on file sizes is not so severe as here in AP forum and people do not have to worry about every byte in their image files, although as I can see people do not exaggerate ether in file sizes or pixel count.

Okay, one can say there is for example flickr, but I have the impression that the site is huge and is devoted to all, not just amateur photographers, so one is lost in the multitude of all sorts of people taking photos, from snappers to more advanced photographers.

The programmer of the HRPC site is in the process of creating other (national) sites, so far there is HRphotocontest (Croatian) and now recently introduced BLKANphotocontest (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Monete Negro), the plan for the future is to have SIphotocontest (Slovenia), CZphotocontest (Czech) and SKphotocontest (do not know what it will cover). I wondered if there would be an interest for UKphotocontest (covering UK). It is interesting that members of various photocontest sites will be able to interact (i.e. each other vote for images, write comments, etc.). I am not sure if the software and the server would be capable of handling so much data. Members of the sites are interacting with the programmer, so often users' ideas had been implemented and the set of features is growing more or less tailored by the users.