Monthly Photo Competition #34 – September, 2025 – “Doors or gates” (poll added)

Cafe Society
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Riverside Watch

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Lake Door:

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Cabo Pulmo, Baja California

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Zoo enclosure gate, Oregon Zoo

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Antler Gate, central Nevada on US-50’s south side, December 2009

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Who you gonna call?

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FDNY Ladder 8 aka Ghostbusters HQ

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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 Tuesday, September 30.

#34 – September 2025 – “Doors or gates”
  • Cervaise
  • ShadowFacts
  • EddyTeddyFreddy
  • Jeff_Lichtman
  • WildaBeast
  • GuanoLad
  • AHunter3
  • Chefguy
  • Dung_Beetle
  • snowthx
  • MacDoc
  • beowulff
  • Aspenglow
  • Pardel-Lux
  • Cartooniverse
  • aurora_maire
  • ParallelLines
  • chela
  • Treppenwitz
  • minor7flat5
  • Turek
  • Mean_Mr.Mustard
  • Twoflower
  • Dogginit
  • Bullitt
  • Strinka
  • Spiderman
0 voters
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Congratulations to @ShadowFacts!

Please let us know our October theme.

mmm

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Thanks @Mean_Mr.Mustard! I am new to this contest, so I feel like I should look back at previous themes to get a sense of what you’ve already done. Any advice?

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Sure!

Note that, if a theme has been used in the past 12 months, it is not yet eligible. Themes more than 12 months old may be repeated.
This is a list of previously used themes (ineligible are in bold):

  • Big or Small
  • Blue
  • Bridges
  • Bugs
  • Change
  • Colors
  • Doors or gates
  • Eye or eyes
  • Flight
  • Flight – Non-Hum
  • Food
  • Gritty
  • Moody/Atmospheric
  • Motion
  • Nature macros/close-ups
  • Night
  • Patriotism
  • Patterns
  • Smooth
  • Still Life
  • Texture

And this is a list of previously suggested - but not yet used - themes:

  • Accidental Weirdness
  • Action
  • Architecture
  • Backlit
  • Beauty
  • Black and White
  • Childhood
  • Cinematography
  • 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
  • Windows
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I forgot to vote but the winner was one that I would have voted for … it was perfect to the theme.