# 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:** 54
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1064 "2024-07-06T11:09:47Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Here’s a couple that didn’t make the cut for this month’s challenge: > Monument Valley by Moonlight: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/U7qhaMg.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/U7qhaMg) Nice. Taken from The View Hotel? EDITED. From the angle this was taken (of East Mitten Butte and Merrick Butte), maybe not taken from a room, but maybe from the area to the right of the hotel. See my pics from that area, coming shortly. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1065 "2024-07-06T11:14:17Z")
Here is the first picture I took from The View Hotel. We arrived at night the night before. This was taken from our balcony. [![](https://i.imgur.com/sL11rI8.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/sL11rI8.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1066 "2024-07-06T11:48:58Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > See my pics from that area, coming shortly. Just south of The View Hotel, at approx DD coordinates ▲ 36.98047, -110.11289, is an open area and a covered picnic table. That’s where we were last October for the annular eclipse. From the angle of @beowulff ’s photo I think his/her picture was taken from near there. Here are some of mine. Pano shot; covered picnic table any my white Jeep are at the far left: [![](https://i.imgur.com/gFM8mVh.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/gFM8mVh.jpeg) My nephew and niece; note the buttes behind them: [![](https://i.imgur.com/DEbf5zL.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/DEbf5zL.jpeg) Me and my nephew: [![](https://i.imgur.com/wk9W4KE.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/wk9W4KE.jpg) Me, my brother, and my wife: [![](https://i.imgur.com/AceApQy.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/AceApQy.jpeg) Having a catch there: [![](https://i.imgur.com/m75FZSb.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/m75FZSb.jpeg) And again: [![](https://i.imgur.com/Of9GuyS.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Of9GuyS.jpeg) 14 Oct 2023, the eclipse begins: [![](https://i.imgur.com/T9dhVtO.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/T9dhVtO.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/xGRjDEM.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/xGRjDEM.jpeg) Annularity over Monument Valley: [![](https://i.imgur.com/mXoW3sP.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/mXoW3sP.jpeg) The eclipse ends: [![](https://i.imgur.com/6ZP3OWP.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/6ZP3OWP.jpeg) ---
**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:** [July 6, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1067 "2024-07-06T13:59:55Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > My nephew and niece; note the buttes behind them: That’s typically where you’ll find them. mmm ---
**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:** [July 6, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1068 "2024-07-06T14:26:10Z")
Yes, I walked south of the hotel, to the edge of the bluff to take that photo. The full sequence is here: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/4277/34394181333_a71f68f6cc_b.jpg "Monument Valley Moonlight Landscape") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/34394181333/) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1069 "2024-07-07T04:00:26Z")
Nice photo! ---
**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:** [July 22, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1070 "2024-07-22T19:12:22Z")
Here’s the bridge picture I decided not to use. I literally flipped a coin in the end! Chugach State Park, Alaska [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/15989438241_8519b0ba93_b.jpg "DSC01977") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/45215582@N06/15989438241/) ---
**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:** [July 22, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1071 "2024-07-22T19:58:23Z")
Hmmm … bereft of ideas this month. Not likely to be in Central London in the next week. Anywhere else? Nope, I got noth… Hang on a minute! @Dung_Beetle has given me an idea! - Degree of difficulty: 9/10 - it’s a tough old bike ride to get there - Chances of producing a winning photo: virtually zero - If I can do it, probability of me feeling smug anyway: very high indeed… 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:** [July 22, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1072 "2024-07-22T20:22:40Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Chances of producing a winning photo: virtually zero Ditto, but it is still fun. Be safe! ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1073 "2024-07-23T01:06:32Z")
Yes, this supposed to be fun. It’s also useful as a way to compare different techniques and ideas about the same subject. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1074 "2024-07-23T16:57:52Z")
Fun indeed! Just posted. Yes, that really is Pooh Bridge. The ladies playing Pooh sticks are American tourists - as one of them told me, “We came a long way to do this!” Anyone who knows Pooh Bridge well will notice that something is wrong. They are dropping the sticks on the _downstream_ side - you’re supposed to drop them on the upstream side, rush across the bridge, and see who’s stick floats out from under the bridge first. Armed with this advice, they rushed off to find more sticks. Anyone who knows Pooh Bridge well knows that there isn’t a spare stick to be found within a quarter mile of the bridge… j ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1075 "2024-07-23T20:14:15Z")
> [@Monthly Photo Competition #20 – July, 2024 – “Bridges”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-20-july-2024-bridges/1003772/17): > > The Two Bridges, Folsom, CA: > > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://imgur.com/mkxB1ew) > [@Monthly Photo Competition #20 – July, 2024 – “Bridges”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-20-july-2024-bridges/1003772/21): > > The same bridges as @snowthx’s photo, but from a different vantage point. > > [IMG\_1629-2 | Matt Wilda | Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/66423490@N08/53870912407/)   Realizing that this is not far from where I am, and also that it has been two days since I last played with my [Jeep](https://www.carmax.com/car/25516187), I think I’m going to pull myself together and drive out there.   It’s these two bridges, right? https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.6825119,-121.1757595&z=18&output=embed&dg=ntvb ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1076 "2024-07-23T20:23:19Z")
Those are the ones! [Rainbow Bridge](https://www.folsomrainbowbridge.com/) (carrying Greenback Lane) celebrated it’s 100-year anniversary in 2019. The [truss bridge](https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=california/folsomtrussbridge/) next to it (carrying the recreation trail) is even older, built in the 1890s, and then being moved to Siskiyou county to span the Klamath River for 70 years before being moved back to it’s original foundations here over the American River in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1077 "2024-07-24T01:36:46Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > > [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > > > Realizing that this is not far from where I am, and also that it has been two days since I last played with my [Jeep](https://www.carmax.com/car/25516187), I think I’m going to pull myself together and drive out there. > > > > It’s these two bridges, right? > > Those are the ones! [Rainbow Bridge](https://www.folsomrainbowbridge.com/) (carrying Greenback Lane) celebrated it’s 100-year anniversary in 2019. The [truss bridge](https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=california/folsomtrussbridge/) next to it (carrying the recreation trail) is even older, built in the 1890s, and then being moved to Siskiyou county to span the Klamath River for 70 years before being moved back to it’s original foundations here over the American River in 2000. > **[Bob Blaylock](https://www.facebook.com/kcolyalB.boB/posts/pfbid0wLetj9SDzeE7KmEPjDUhnER6nUvk4afPqsGv9ELijd4yGGsaFVg6kDg1hRVN4HrZl)** > > Explored the “Two Bridges” area in Folsom, today. Just me, Seanette didn't come along, this time. > > https://www.google.com/maps/@38.682512,-121.175759,432m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-US&entry=ttu ---
**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:** [July 24, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1078 "2024-07-24T16:03:14Z")
The plaques are all blank now? Huh. As you probably guessed, they used to have information about the history of the bridges. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1079 "2024-07-24T16:36:59Z")
Yeah, that’s a bummer. Here is what used to be posted there: [Linky to google maps](https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6819782,-121.175277,3a,90y,348.94h,68.6t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPlTJdJqO_xhZWxOp5L4P58RlKhlo4qPReYJ8TO!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPlTJdJqO_xhZWxOp5L4P58RlKhlo4qPReYJ8TO%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya130.10834-ro0-fo100!7i2508!8i1254?hl=en&coh=205409&entry=ttu) ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1080 "2024-07-25T01:11:26Z")
Those aren’t the only historic bridges in Folsom, either. There’s also the [Orangevale Avenue bridge](https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=california/orangevaleavenue/), which is similar in style to the Rainbow Bridge, albeit a bit plainer, and actually a few years older. That bridge was at risk of being demolished and replaced with a modern bridge, but due to outcry from preservationists it underwent structural rehabilitation and restoration instead. It’s notably unaltered from its original design, which means it’s a one lane bridge (Unlike the Rainbow bridge which IIRC was widened a bit in the 1960s to accommodate 2 way traffic). And in hindsight I kind of wish I had gone out and photographed that bridge, just so I’d have a different one from @snowthx. Then there’s the [Powerhouse Bridge](https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=california/folsompowerhousebridge/), which nowadays carries a bike path over the old Powerhouse canal. And I could have sworn the Figueroa Street Bridge was listed on that Historic Bridges site, but it appears not to be. So [here it is in Google Maps](https://maps.app.goo.gl/rx2my5VaADJaNJ196). Neither is quite as interesting as the previous ones, but they are equally old. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1081 "2024-07-25T10:42:40Z")
Went with the daytime Golden Gate Bridge classic as I like how the shadow works to lead the eye in to the picture. Here are the others I considered: This one of that same bridge but at night and from the water: [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/4553/24343353218_4c1c457c90_c.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/4553/24343353218_4c1c457c90_c.jpg) This footbridge over the jungle in Panama: [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/4586/38069462994_71241b10b8_c.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/4586/38069462994_71241b10b8_c.jpg) ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1082 "2024-07-25T10:50:00Z")
I debated posting my Golden Gate photo. Seeing the others, I’m glad I did not. Mine: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/CMRHYvc.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/CMRHYvc) mmm ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1083 "2024-07-25T14:45:01Z")
@minor7flat5 Your entry kinda reminds me of the famous (_ahem_ - 'round here) Give Peas A Chance. > **['Give peas a chance' M25 bridge graffiti removed](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-45564552)** > > One fan was "overwhelmed" to hear her "favourite piece of public defamation had been defamed". j [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=55)