# Monthly Photo Competition #16 – March 2024 – “Patterns” {Poll added}
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** photo
**Created:** [March 11, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719 "2024-03-11T21:41:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/1 "2024-03-11T21:41:44Z")
This is the monthly thread for **March,** **2024**. The topic this month is “ **Patterns** ”, chosen by Mean\_Mr.Mustard
Please note:
The general rules for the competition are [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642).
**One entry per person per month**. To make the photos easier to review please only post just **once** to this thread, with your entry. Your post can include a caption with whatever info you want to give.
Please keep all discussion in the [rolling discussion thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642).
Once the submission deadline has passed, I’ll put a voting poll **in this thread**.
**Submission deadline: Thursday, 03/28/24 11:59 pm US EDT**
**Voting deadline: Sunday, 03/31/24 11:59 pm US EDT**
Good luck!
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/2 "2024-03-12T18:22:27Z")
Geometric camellia
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/45215582@N06/53582799257/)
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/3 "2024-03-13T14:00:04Z")
Sunlight filtered through a window privacy film
[ ](https://alex.strinka.net/photography/photos/L5a89tm.jpg)
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/4 "2024-03-13T17:08:11Z")
Patterns, you say? Hold on a sec… ok, here you go! 🙂
[ ](https://www.genderkitten.com/WS4/ah3files2/Robe/IMG_2629_sm.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/5 "2024-03-13T19:11:00Z")
My pattern is nuts:
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/DPufFo7.jpeg)
Or, technically, seeds of drupes.
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### Author:  [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/6 "2024-03-15T16:12:18Z")
Google pics does its thing again. Click for the full image. Snake’s head fritillary, about 90 minutes ago.
[ ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/C1hb7x4TRrKa1wL49)
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### Author:  [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/7 "2024-03-15T20:10:12Z")
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cttm/3122414043/)
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### Author:  [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/8 "2024-03-15T23:47:48Z")
Wall in SF Chinatown
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/zyada/2531122160/)
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/9 "2024-03-16T13:57:08Z")
Sidewalk chalk art, courtesy of the girls across the street.
[ ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/bFTXjpq3Gp1i2HP9A)
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/10 "2024-03-16T14:37:11Z")
I saw this at a nature preserve in Australia and had to snap a photo. I’m still not sure what it is (anybody know?).
Maybe something bee-related?
_A home for the fleas_
_A hive for the bees_
_A nest for birds there ain’t no words_
_for the beauty and the splendor and the wonder of my…?_
[ ](https://imgur.com/R5Aeldc)
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### Author:  [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/11 "2024-03-20T20:13:52Z")
[ ](https://imgur.com/YaVrihk)
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### Author:  [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/12 "2024-03-20T20:48:29Z")
Just back from a week in Tucson, including a visit to Saguaro National Park
[ ](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczN__KkM7MbjfWi4_ZFcMbbi4C0RuXq8i4_8NVqGsXtgcBU0-vVr7Q9cGUlsFDUlRAK8XUWRnSO1rarW4twaezkKkDhiDgO9fCQ5DXQOqfpPC356T38dh74542dNBtyWQCuY0Nc4KrXPuTMBuSneYS5khd_F8fg9XV_esVqIFFJ4LLz796_KHpgVqv8rkIgLF6NN4bPwx4Ph084Fhn1Xv4zytxywmEmTNSsVQr95-b_u4tqnz-RvKNi7IKgOnp1JxsoUs4ulBAXjQB_Do4S2yA9SjUkgsxlVLR-6uFsRJCJWpyeLKXJG1KR_0X3VC4TFfTnDPINjKatl-cmu1ofI_vlNuYP6AcW_SZXr_xil42m2DmVK4a3XjpIJeVvKkyg7D_PYo2YHGmrHtCEMJy3hOakD1DjoJ2Kc62kCer7JDgDx1a5jmizDEFVeoS83Eka9JfCfmowvBcGxWe4WBdDsxl45wd2q_5oVX1MPibkk6r2zi3OHBV2mCm8tf9c8aCFUhhUYsFeWpiC8ZYY6-y9aoYf7PAQzpkpg9NQpT15zNkbGT8FV8xf9cCW74-yv6xSXgsw2RxAc9XRCSInqMP3u_MuqiScgvWYTcflR2XSJz4xVjwo40pqjNwkbBin7oisx2hbxHfTLDuHY-SHG-C17N6wIuqobAKGf8fdIXPgwAY20eiST0wWk78-RVU34hHnnu0vBxQ_tpKhwF7n-Fw8VZ4v_WDNTJQ-f32HQsAQeV2C69azHW90j7fUF0KogbjfSu4ThH6f_8ZpxfR03_IPRTb5bMToh-CJvZo9ayQHP1jVA2HQgoDPTPmGX6w-yxsEJrW6aXiMmnH-4XnxVPYu6ItCKKMrglshoH0pRY-Ih3huO6QEiyhnxMOWNPfjV_bmTamIHLHQcj5NfT-ivNUpndd8cu-flBehjrx_FNnMcOBGBHkML67vQHAJ4ppU=w1686-h2248-s-no?authuser=0)
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### Author:  [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/13 "2024-03-21T13:37:34Z")
Dragonfly wing - Rectangles for spars, elongated polygons for the fragile trailing edge and hexagons for wide sheeting. There are two, seven sided, rosettes where the stresses are radial.
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/xVHDy45.jpeg)
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/14 "2024-03-21T15:41:12Z")
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/0DSQxu0.jpeg)
Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning
[https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/trying-remember-color-sky-september-morning](https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/trying-remember-color-sky-september-morning)
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### Author:  [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/15 "2024-03-21T17:57:52Z")
Good topic! I had a hard time choosing one. Here is an old photo of one building reflected in the windows of another:
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/31573076@N00/380908371/)
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### Author:  [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/16 "2024-03-23T19:28:15Z")
Sorry for the double post in the competition thread … Hopefully this version will be visible.
[ ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/Fj2tViN7DctCvThv8)
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/17 "2024-03-24T12:17:00Z")
**A Piece of the Taj Mahal**
(Not really. I picked up this object at a gift shop in Agra after I visited the Taj Mahal. It is supposed to be made of the same marble and other material as went into the Taj Mahal. It is, at least, quite similar.)
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/OWFGywA.jpeg)
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/18 "2024-03-25T00:14:21Z")
I don’t remember taking this, as it was over 15 years ago, but based on the photos around it it looks like I stood directly under a fancy light fixture in Grand Central Station, New York, and looked up.
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/66423490@N08/53609318084/)
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/19 "2024-03-25T02:16:48Z")
This is from a WWI commemorative exhibit at The Rooms, a cultural art space in St. John’s Newfoundland. In Newfoundland, the forget-me-not represents those who fell in that war, and the ceiling was covered with these.
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/197666118@N08/53591403553/in/dateposted-public/)
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-16-march-2024-patterns-poll-added/998719/20 "2024-03-27T04:06:49Z")
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/74663312@N08/53613859643/)
An unplanned find from Thurs night
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