# SDMB Monthly Photo Competition - rolling discussion thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** photo\ **Created:** [November 27, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642 "2022-11-27T20:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/364 "2023-05-09T17:43:03Z")
Thanks! I took that on a workshop last weekend. That’s my favorite shot of the 1000 or so I took. Ironically, it actually IS a Magnificent hummingbird (aka “Rivoli’s hummingbird”) > **[Rivoli's hummingbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivoli%27s_hummingbird)** > > Rivoli's hummingbird (Eugenes fulgens), also known as the magnificent hummingbird, is a species of hummingbird in the "mountain gems", tribe Lampornithini in subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States. > Eugenes fulgens was originally described as the magnificent hummingbird, and by the late 1800s was treated as having two subspecies. Beginning in 2017 the North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological ... ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/365 "2023-05-09T18:02:25Z")
Where was the workshop held? ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/366 "2023-05-09T18:08:05Z")
Madera Canyon, just south of Tucson, AZ. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/367 "2023-05-12T14:13:13Z")
Is there a special prize for the most flowers in a single photo? It’s bluebell time, and I just posted a photo I took last week. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to go out to Leith Hill, where there are some even more spectacular displays. So it goes. j ---
**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:** [May 12, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/368 "2023-05-12T14:15:31Z")
I think it’s lovely. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/369 "2023-05-12T14:16:44Z")
Why, thank you, ma’am. It is a very pretty time of year round these parts. j ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/370 "2023-05-12T15:05:01Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Why, thank you, ma’am. It is a very pretty time of year round these parts. That’s the thing about a lot of these great photos - not everyone has shared where “these parts” are. I would love to know where (generally) each of the submissions was taken - if you have not shared already, please do! ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/371 "2023-05-12T15:14:39Z")
I took the picture of the rose in the [Parc de L’Orangerie](https://www.visitstrasbourg.fr/en/parc-de-lorangerie/) in Strasburg last autum. It is a nice park, very well kept. Too well, perhaps, in the French style, I like plants to be messier. But it is the country of Versailles, to each according to his taste. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/372 "2023-05-12T15:17:33Z")
Happy to oblige. The photo was taken during a bike ride along the Forest Way, part of National Cycle Route 21, the section between East Grinstead and Forest Row. > **[Forest Way](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Way)** > > The Forest Way is a linear Country park providing walking, cycling, horse riding and the quiet enjoyment of the countryside. It runs for around 16 km from East Grinstead to Groombridge. > The Forest Way lies within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the heart of the picturesque East Sussex countryside with the Ashdown Forest lying to the south. It takes the route of a disused railway line and now provides an important habitat for wildlife forming a ‘green corridor’ through ... - though in this part of the world, you’ll find pleasing displays of bluebells anywhere there’s some dampish woodland. If you’ve ever seen a railway station scene in a British period drama - steam trains puffing into the station, that sort of thing - it was almost certainly filmed on the (preserved) Bluebell Railway, whose line terminates in East Grinstead. They call it the Bluebell Railway for a reason. j ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/373 "2023-05-12T17:35:46Z")
The Bleeding Hearts were in my backyard on Long Island, NY. ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/374 "2023-05-12T18:02:52Z")
Mine was taken in the gardens of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/375 "2023-05-12T18:20:46Z")
California groundcones grow happily here just north of the border in Ashland, Oregon. These were in Lithia Park. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/376 "2023-05-12T22:22:47Z")
No matter how many times I see this thread title, at first glance I think it says “Monty Python” . ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/377 "2023-05-12T23:57:51Z")
My wild iris was taken on the side if a road in Hawaii (Big Island) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/378 "2023-05-13T01:03:13Z")
I already mentioned in the competition thread that mine was taken at South Yuba River State Park, California, but if you want to get really specific it was along the Buttermilk Bend trail. That particular trail is kind of known for abundant wildflowers in the spring. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/379 "2023-05-13T02:50:49Z")
Mine was taken in my front garden in Memphis. I don’t even know what kind of flowers they are. I have a gardener - the retired guy across the street who has built and maintains gardens in all the neighbors’ yards around his house. And he does it all for free just because it’s what he loves to do. I’m so lucky. Choosing one was hard because I have hundreds of flower photos! ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/380 "2023-05-13T11:52:29Z")
The pitcher plants are on the side of the drainage ditch at the edge of our yard. Sarracenias are voracious carnivores so the blossom must be larger and more attractive than the gaudy leaf trap. Otherwise it would eat it’s pollinators. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2023, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/381 "2023-05-14T23:54:02Z")
My picture was taken in my dining room, but the flowers were grown in Southern Maryland. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/382 "2023-05-15T17:44:37Z")
My purple coneflowers were taken last summer in the parking lot garden of the Laurel MD Public Library. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/383 "2023-05-16T20:29:47Z")
I took this one this morning. There is a house a few blocks from here; the yard looks like something you’d see in Holland. [![](https://i.imgur.com/wAkXBzx.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/wAkXBzx.png) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=20)