# Monthly Photo Competition #22 – September, 2024 – “Flight – Non-Human” {poll added} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** photo\ **Created:** [September 4, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780 "2024-09-04T20:33:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/21 "2024-09-24T19:59:47Z")
Cleared for take-off - International flight (maybe). Germany (just) 12.55, 12 Sept. [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOMPUo1L3VAMBwY61oEbcYADisKWqFe-deETREGKuDMC8zpUTCLxdTIFQ4RRx9D9gvM4-QO2xt11ZgOFGk2xlTwo60bHfSZNp3wN4jsQ6944fYxM98=w600-h315-p-k "New item by j") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/92FYSXFgjKQsdY1AA) j ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/22 "2024-09-25T00:35:34Z")
A light migration day [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54019649141_f5566eb713_b.jpg "Snowbirds") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/74663312@N08/54019649141) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/23 "2024-09-25T19:15:45Z")
Fish socks on the fly [![](https://i.ibb.co/T29FQ18/IMG-9685.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/T29FQ18/IMG-9685.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/24 "2024-09-26T02:58:40Z")
Incoming! [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54022391833_0c6e32cc30_b.jpg "\_DSC1176 (2)") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/197666118@N08/54022391833/in/dateposted-public/) ---
**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:** [September 27, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/25 "2024-09-27T14:41:56Z")
Please vote for your 3 favorite photos, 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**. Select up to 3. **The voting deadline is 11:45 p.m. US EDT** **on Tuesday, October 1**. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/25))_ ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/26 "2024-10-01T01:56:47Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > **The voting deadline is 11:45 p.m. US EDT** **on Tuesday, October 1**. Voting ends tomorrow. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/27 "2024-10-02T11:00:20Z")
Criminy, another tie! Congratulations to @romansperson and @solost. Please collaborate and let us know our October theme. Another please: Do it soon. I am leaving Saturday for a two-week vacation and will be off of the World Wide Web. mmm ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/28 "2024-10-02T13:06:15Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Criminy, another tie! Congratulations to @romansperson and @solost. Nice! I hardly ever win anything (especially when winning involves any kind of skill on my part). Since it’s an October theme, how about ‘spooky/ moody/ atmospheric’? Or maybe ‘buildings/ architecture’? I took a look at past themes, and other than bridges it doesn’t look like we’ve had many themes on man-made stuff. Or something completely different; I’m easy. What do you think, @romansperson ? mmm, where you going on vacation? Two weeks away from the WWW sounds both wonderful and a bit terrifying 😊 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/29 "2024-10-02T14:11:58Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Since it’s an October theme, how about ‘spooky/ moody/ atmospheric’? OOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I have the perfect photo for that! Meanwhile, darn it, missed by a whisker after leading for a while, but the co-winners deserve their shared trophy. Congratulations! ETA: While I’m thinking of it, how much photo editing is okay? My spooky photo got that way by playing around with some tools like contrast, color balance, and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/30 "2024-10-02T14:19:46Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > the co-winners deserve their shared trophy. Congratulations! Thanks! And a confession…I was about to vote the other day, then got distracted by a work issue and didn’t get around to it afterward. And @romansperson, yours was one of the 3 I was going to pick, which would have put you over the top as the sole winner. So congrats to you, and if you want to pick the theme on your own, be my guest… ---
**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:** [October 2, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/31 "2024-10-02T16:23:17Z")
> [@solost](#): > > mmm, where you going on vacation? Two weeks away from the WWW sounds both wonderful and a bit terrifying Two-week road trip: Toronto\>Montreal\>Ottawa\>Quebec City\>Maine (Bar Harbor)\>New Hampshire\>Vermont\>Connecticut\>New York (walking Brooklyn Bridge)\>Home again home again jiggity-jig. Confession: I’m considering bringing my laptop after all, but still leaning against it. mmm ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/32 "2024-10-02T16:28:20Z")
Cool, sounds like a great trip! > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Confession: I’m considering bringing my laptop after all, but still leaning against it. Yeah, why not? Do some SDMB travel posting from the road! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/33 "2024-10-02T17:45:34Z")
I like ‘moody/atmospheric,’ though we did do its close cousin, ‘shadow and light,’ right around this time last year. I’ll throw out a couple more ideas and see if we can collect a few comments over the next day or so, then we can pick from there. Sound OK? 1. We could go with a wider theme of just “Fall.” Allows for a wider range of choices/interpretations, or 1. We could go with ‘the color orange.’ Or make it harder with ‘the colors orange and black.’ Could be any subject, but the color(s) need to be in the photo. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/34 "2024-10-02T18:02:17Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > We could go with a wider theme of just “Fall.” Allows for a wider range of choices/interpretations I like this idea, not incidentally because I have a metric ton of Fall color pics, as I’m sure many other Dopers do as well. So it should make for a good amount of submissions. I’m good with ‘the color orange’ too, though I think ‘orange and black’ together might be too limiting. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/35 "2024-10-02T18:07:09Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Another please: Do it soon. I am leaving Saturday for a two-week vacation and will be off of the World Wide Web. > > mmm Two weeks of no mmm on the www? (that would be so much better in a different font) ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/36 "2024-10-02T20:33:05Z")
Well, if you are taking suggestions from others, I, too, like “spooky” for October. It would give people a chance to shoot for the contest or use a past photo. Have a great time on your trip, mmm! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/37 "2024-10-03T00:00:06Z")
I think it’s limiting for our non-US participants, though, where Halloween isn’t a thing. Hence something a bit broader, like “moody/atmospheric,” leaving the specific word ‘spooky’ out. I would rather not have people think something Halloween-related is preferred. I’ll post something to the rolling discussion thread where more people are probably going to see this and see what we get in opinions by this time (8 PM EST) tomorrow, and then we’ll let mmm know since he needs to post before he leaves. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/38 "2024-10-03T01:04:14Z")
I like the “moody/atmospheric” theme, too. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780/39 "2024-10-03T01:27:47Z")
If you could post your comment in the rolling discussion thread too, that would be great if you don’t mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-22-september-2024-flight-non-human-poll-added/1006780.md?page=1)