# 2025 SDMB Photo of the Year poll **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** photo\ **Created:** [January 7, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-photo-of-the-year-poll/1026431 "2026-01-07T13:53:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-photo-of-the-year-poll/1026431/1 "2026-01-07T13:53:54Z")
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.** . 1. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/hHhl4Xr.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/hHhl4Xr) . 2. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/N8bRuuL.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/N8bRuuL) . 3. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/Uh6q8lD.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/Uh6q8lD) . 4. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/lWqiFce.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/lWqiFce) . 5. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/Cj2NnDS.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/Cj2NnDS) . 6. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/Ck3ulhN.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/Ck3ulhN) . 7. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/JKd6hRK.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/JKd6hRK) . 8. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/K0FQRQw.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/K0FQRQw) . 9. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/4ZReXOT.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/4ZReXOT) . 10. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/2lbKPSV.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/2lbKPSV) . 11. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/Jvv3H8H.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/Jvv3H8H) . 12. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/g8L9eYU.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/g8L9eYU) _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-photo-of-the-year-poll/1026431/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-photo-of-the-year-poll/1026431/2 "2026-01-09T16:19:58Z")
Don’t want this to sink into oblivion, hope it’s ok to occasionally bump. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-photo-of-the-year-poll/1026431/3 "2026-01-15T14:18:55Z")
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! mmm ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-photo-of-the-year-poll/1026431/4 "2026-01-15T14:59:36Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2025-sdmb-photo-of-the-year-poll/1026431/5 "2026-01-15T15:16:29Z")
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.