# 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:** 56
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1104 "2024-08-02T23:17:33Z")
Agreed and you’re welcome. Title is optional. mmm ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1105 "2024-08-02T23:33:31Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > And thanks again MMM for taking on the responsibility for keeping these contests going. Agreed. Did we every learn what happened with the originator of these photo contests - TwoCarrotStrawman? I hope they are okay. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1106 "2024-08-03T00:36:44Z")
@TwoCarrotSnowman . I’m afraid I can’t think of any good reason he’d leave us so abruptly. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1107 "2024-08-03T14:04:36Z")
Still need the August theme from @Spiderman. mmm ---
**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:** [August 5, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1108 "2024-08-05T13:44:29Z")
Flight - (manned/man-made aviation related); let’s leave birds for a different month. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1109 "2024-08-05T13:55:17Z")
For human flight, I’m certain I can’t come up with a new photo this month, but if archived is acceptable I might have something. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1110 "2024-08-05T16:34:09Z")
Same here. The annual air show was last month (and I didn’t go this year anyway), but I have some photos from previous years that I could use. Or I guess I could go hang out by the airport and photograph commercial jets, but I doubt I’ll have a chance to do that this month. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1111 "2024-08-05T16:38:49Z")
  I see various discussion of potential rule changes, but it is difficult to sort out what is or is not a definite official statement on such.   To be clear, what rule changes have been established recently?   Are we allowed to use photos from our archive, or must we take fresh photos?   Are we allowed to include a backstory or explanation, such as how [my last entry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-20-july-2024-bridges-poll-added/1003772/3) constitutes a _“bridge”_? ---
**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:** [August 5, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1112 "2024-08-05T21:35:09Z")
You may use an archive photo unless the theme of the month expressly forbids it. In the monthly photo poll thread, you may post one photo and, if you’d like, a title. Any other text belongs in the rolling discussion thread (exception: one the poll has closed, you may comment in the monthly photo poll thread to your heart’s content). mmm ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1113 "2024-08-05T21:49:11Z")
FWIW I used an archive photo for the bridges contest. Hope that was OK.(didn’t win but did get one vote) Brian ---
**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:** [August 6, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1114 "2024-08-06T00:11:59Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > FWIW I used an archive photo for the bridges contest. Hope that was OK. Archive or current, it does not matter unless specified by the topic submitter. mmm ---
**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:** [August 6, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1115 "2024-08-06T00:27:14Z")
August contest thread is [posted.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-21-august-2024-flight/1005302) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1116 "2024-08-06T01:36:06Z")
Thank you, Mr. Mustard! ---
**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:** [August 6, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1117 "2024-08-06T12:20:34Z")
Well, I didn’t think I’d have anything for “flight”, but found something in the archive. Thanks for your hard work, @Mean_Mr.Mustard! I hope your vacation from technology is something fun. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1118 "2024-08-06T12:59:12Z")
Those terraces are cool where is that, Italy? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1119 "2024-08-06T13:13:53Z")
Yes, I was going to title the picture “Elicottero”, Italian for helicopter, but that sounded too snooty! 😄 Especially since I don’t speak Italian. That was near Riomaggiore, where we got off the train and hiked up into the olive groves. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1120 "2024-08-06T15:25:28Z")
Thanks. A giant VRBO house with a pool near a lake is plenty fun for me. The house has wifi but I don’t plan on doing any wifi-ing. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1121 "2024-08-06T18:16:17Z")
For my August submission, I was spoiled for choice; I had hundreds in my archive. The one I chose (post #3 in the thread) was not the most exciting or dynamic or artistically-cool photo from that day, and perhaps technically not all that great (it wasn’t hazy; it was a blue sky day but they were in front of a cloud at that moment). But seeing those two together speaks to me. So there. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1122 "2024-08-10T00:23:36Z")
It’s a cool combination, P-51 and F-16. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1123 "2024-08-10T02:24:12Z")
It was really hard to decide between the photo I used, and this one, of the same F-22 in a hard bank. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53912333497_d7be656b25_b.jpg "IMG\_1559") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/66423490@N08/53912333497/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=57)