2025 SDMB Photo of the Year poll

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

This thread is to determine the 2025 SDMB Photo of the Year. These photos are the winners of our 2025 monthly contests.

Please vote for your 3 favorite photos - you must vote for 3 - using whatever criteria you feel is best. All Dopers are welcome to vote - you don’t need to have submitted a photo. You cannot vote for your own photo.

The voting deadline is 11:45 p.m. US EDT on Wednesday, January 14.
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[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

Don’t want this to sink into oblivion, hope it’s ok to occasionally bump.

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[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

Join me in congratulating @zimaane for winning the 2025 SDMB Photo of the Year award!

Their May entry, under the theme of “Nature macros/close-ups”, is a sharp, beautifully composed image of a plant stem bejeweled with reflective water droplets.

Huzzah!

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[Dung_Beetle]

Ah yes! Thank you @Mean_Mr.Mustard! And congrats, @zimaane! I had a feeling about that one.

Now then, where do I purchase the calendar?

[zimaane]

Thank you @Mean_Mr.Mustard for organizing the contests and to everyone who participated. I’m surprised that my photo won the monthly go-round, much less the annual event.

A quick history of the photo: I was at a park near my house that has a walking path around a small lake. It was late winter and it had been raining. For some reason, I noticed that I could see the inverted image of a small building on the other side of the lake in the large water droplets on the leaf and I thought it was a cool scientific phenomenon, so I took a few quick pictures with my Android phone, trying to capture the effect. I am not sure if used macro setting or regular setting. It didn’t quite capture the image in the water drop, but I liked the way the picture turned out anyway, so I used it in the Nature/macro monthly contest.