# 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:** 66
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1304 "2025-01-02T16:17:28Z")
@Dung_Beetle - Another amazing photo! That dog should go into “dog modeling” school. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1305 "2025-01-02T16:25:32Z")
Looks like David Bowie was reborn as a dog. A cute dog, of course. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1306 "2025-01-02T16:26:35Z")
Thanks! He’s not smart, but he’s pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1307 "2025-01-02T17:07:22Z")
Heterochromatic eyes are a lot more common in dogs than in humans. The process behind it is related to the process behind patterned coats. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1308 "2025-01-02T17:13:04Z")
@beowulff & @Mean_Mr.Mustard, is there any guidance on whether blue should be the subject, the background, or both or are you leaving it us to us (ya jerks 😉!)? Do you have any idea how many photos I have with blue in them? I even took some yesterday, before I saw this month’s category that looked good in preview on the small screen on the back of the camera but that haven’t been downloaded yet ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1309 "2025-01-02T17:41:30Z")
I think it’s up to the photographer to decide. Anything that says “blue” to you. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1310 "2025-01-02T22:11:03Z")
He’s very cute and most likely a Very Good Dog who needs lots of hugs. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1311 "2025-01-02T23:08:30Z")
I am living for the entries thus far, Astounding! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1312 "2025-01-02T23:18:01Z")
I can already tell it will be tough to pick just three, and we’ve barely begun. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1313 "2025-01-04T16:46:43Z")
@Shoeless, I can’t figure out what the two vertical dark thingies are in the lower lefthand corner of this gorgeous lake photo: > [@Monthly Photo Competition #26 – January, 2025 – “Blue”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-26-january-2025-blue/1012458/9): > > Google photo - you may have to click to see the whole thing. [[Google Photos] ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/YHRn2sAAQ5Ncu3439) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1314 "2025-01-04T16:58:06Z")
Bits of wood, it looks like (each one is half object, half reflection). Either they’re attached to a waterlogged sunken log, or they’re the remnants of something that grew at a time when the lake level was lower. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1315 "2025-01-04T17:39:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > each one is half object, half reflection Now that you’ve pointed that out, I can see that, especially the one on the right. So something akin to old dock posts. Makes sense. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1316 "2025-01-04T17:41:23Z")
Plastic Jesusses, plastic Madonnas, plastic flowers, blue sky. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1317 "2025-01-04T18:44:56Z")
It’s a small fishing lake in a park near our neighborhood. I think they are just a couple of wooden posts sticking up out of the water. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1318 "2025-01-04T21:55:17Z")
They look like the posts for an old pier to me ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1319 "2025-01-05T04:13:14Z")
OK, so I had to choose between two blue photos. The one I posted in the contest is 100% my work, but I was tempted to post this one, which is a photograph I took in Paris, of ["Portrait relief de Martial Raysse” by Yves Klein.](https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/es/node/204803#infos-principales) I really like it as an image, but since it wasn’t my artwork to begin with, I decided against it. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/rhmMZoA.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/rhmMZoA) The full image is [here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/54247633450/in/dateposted-public/), but it’s somewhat NSFW (sculptural male nudity). ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1320 "2025-01-05T19:17:56Z")
2024 Photo of the Year poll is [here.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-sdmb-photo-of-the-year-poll/1012589) Tell your friends and neighbors to vote. 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:** [January 8, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1321 "2025-01-08T16:07:12Z")
Hey @Crane - you took that photo yourself, right? I only ask because if the label is correct, it’s older than I am (!!) I’m impressed. This has to be the record for oldest archive entry ever, surely? 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:** [January 8, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1322 "2025-01-08T16:43:02Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Hey @Crane - you took that photo yourself, right? I only ask because if the label is correct, it’s older than I am (!!) > > I’m impressed. This has to be the record for oldest archive entry ever, surely?   I was wondering that myself, when @Seanette called my attention to it.  But looking at @Crane’s profile, assuming everything claimed in it is true, then yes, he’s old enough to have very plausibly taken that picture, when he claims to have taken it. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1323 "2025-01-09T12:18:53Z")
Guilty as charged, I took the picture on the honey moon with my first wife (now passed). We drove the Auburn over the old Tioga Pass road as part of the start of our new adventure. The car was our prize (perhaps only) possession. We had to stop every twenty minutes to let the engine cool down on the climb to 10,000 feet. On one of those stops I snapped the posted photo. The Park Service had a gas station at the top and we were aghast at the price of $.45 a gallon. The real adventure was going down the Levining Grade with mechanical brakes. The wife took this photo: [![](https://i.imgur.com/c8ZDByS.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/c8ZDByS.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=65) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=67)