Monthly Photo Competition #29 – April, 2025 – “Smooth”: Poll Added

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Monthly Photo Competition #29 – April, 2025 – “Smooth”

This is the monthly thread for April, 2025. The topic this month is “smooth”, chosen by Turek.

Please post only your photo and, if you want, a title in this thread. Any other text belongs in the rolling discussion thread. Exception: discussion can commence in this thread after the poll has closed.

The general rules for the competition are here.

One entry per person per month . To make the photos easier to review please only post just once to this thread, with your entry.

Once the submission deadline has passed, I’ll put a voting poll in this thread .

Submission deadline: Friday, April 25, 11:45 pm US EDT.

Good luck!

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The smoothing of the tide:

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Pacific Madrone

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Lake Berryessa: shaft spillway, and Monticello Dam (01 Apr 2025)

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Google Photos
Sensuous Chile

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Sea Otter in the Harbor at Morro Bay, CA

Imgur

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Mushroom, death cap possibly

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Olive oil and Balsamic Vinegar, lunch, today:
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Cloud Gate
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Kayakers enjoying a rare calm day on Lake Superior, Pictured Rocks Michigan.

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River reflections

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Carpet of bluebells, 19th April, 3.41 pm. Click for full image.

Google Photos

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Dockside Sunrise

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Antelope Canyon, Arizona

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Smooth, and happy PB:

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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 Wednesday, April 30.

#29 – April 2025 – “Smooth”
  • EddyTeddyFreddy
  • Twoflower
  • Bullitt
  • MacDoc
  • WildaBeast
  • chela
  • Pardel-Lux
  • beowulff
  • Dung_Beetle
  • solost
  • Spiderman
  • Treppenwitz
  • minor7flat5
  • Chefguy
  • snowthx
0 voters
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Giving this a little bump as the voting deadline approaches.

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Congratulations, @MacDoc !

Please let us know what our May theme is.

If you need inspiration, here is a list of previously-suggested (but thus far not used) themes:

  • Accidental Weirdness
  • Action
  • Architecture
  • Backlit
  • Beauty
  • Black and White
  • Childhood
  • Cinematography
  • Color
  • Color (one specific)
  • Contrast
  • Handmade (non-food)
  • Holiday/Season
  • Industry
  • Invisible
  • Jump!
  • Less is More
  • Man-Made Object(s)
  • Moonlight
  • Operate
  • Out of Time
  • Over the Top
  • Repetition
  • Spooky
  • Stone/rock
  • Unexpected
  • Vintage
  • Weather

mmm

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Thanks. That’s one of my fav pics from our Chile trip. Glad others liked it.
I’d like to see nature macros/closeups.
Does not need full macro lens/lighting but those are okay too. Anyone with a zoom lens can do macros at a distance, bees, bugs, lichens, shrooms, land or water but up close and personal.
Is that enough to go on?