# 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:** 73
**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:** [April 2, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1444 "2025-04-02T18:24:02Z")
Let’s go with “Smooth”. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1445 "2025-04-02T19:01:03Z")
“Smooth” it is. [Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-29-april-2025-smooth/1016538) is open for bidness. mmm ---
**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:** [April 2, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1446 "2025-04-02T20:58:24Z")
Last month I was tempted to take a photo of sandpaper. This month, peanut butter. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1447 "2025-04-02T21:04:17Z")
Sadly, only chunky in the cabinet… ---
**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:** [April 2, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1448 "2025-04-02T21:05:35Z")
that’s nuts! ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1449 "2025-04-03T01:21:35Z")
In first again! And I do hope this isn’t stretching the “smooth” concept too far. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1450 "2025-04-03T21:25:55Z")
I’ll buy it. Ironically, it’s also gritty. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1451 "2025-04-14T12:22:32Z")
A picture of my favorite work of public art, maybe my favorite work of any kind of art! The Bean. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1452 "2025-04-24T23:26:38Z")
My “Smooth” entry was a sunrise on the lake a few hundred yards behind my house. It looks serene and beautiful, but I can assure you that New Jersey’s urban sprawl is just fifty feet to the left in the photo. By the way, here’s the same lake back in January when I was shooting 6x6 film incorrectly loaded in an old Mamiya 6 Automat. I managed to scratch the film by putting the pressure plate in backwards, hence the thin horizontal black lines. But I loved the shot of the single trail of footprints in the ice, so I did an 8x8" darkroom print of it, warts and all. **The Silent Traveler** [![](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Zr4NCvF/0/Mr3fSpNZtRNtsN7bGHqWxP6Dh9fNsnkXw9sDRt9tv/X5/i-Zr4NCvF-X5.jpg) ](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Zr4NCvF/0/Mr3fSpNZtRNtsN7bGHqWxP6Dh9fNsnkXw9sDRt9tv/X5/i-Zr4NCvF-X5.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:** [April 26, 2025, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1453 "2025-04-26T11:08:11Z")
Poll for April is posted. [link](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-29-april-2025-smooth/1016538/17) 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:** [April 29, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1454 "2025-04-29T04:22:41Z")
Thank you, Mr. Mustard. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1455 "2025-05-01T12:55:21Z")
Congratulations to @MacDoc ! We await our May theme. 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:** [May 1, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1456 "2025-05-01T13:48:03Z")
[May 2025 thread is up.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-30-may-2025-nature-macros-close-ups/1017751) Theme: **Nature macros/close-ups**. mmm ---
**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 1, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1457 "2025-05-01T16:54:35Z")
I think I will not win the beauty or popularity contest, if my wife’s expression is any guide. But if they eat the mosquitoes, I’ll be happy! It seems you can also post **[videos](https://imgur.com/a/SjaqtgS)**. Even nicer. See the one with the gang in the bottom left corner? I call him **[Murphy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC79IAEtmEE)**. He’s German. And the fat one with the blond wig and the bad teeth? That one I call **[Boris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFuUaCe8eY)**. ---
**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 1, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1458 "2025-05-01T22:41:20Z")
In an odd coincidence, I got an email from Flickr about 45 minutes ago, announcing _they’re_ starting a monthly photo contest with a different theme each month. This month’s theme: “we’re sweatin’ the small stuff” – macro shots. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1459 "2025-05-01T23:10:45Z")
Copycats. Frickn Flickr. 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:** [May 2, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1460 "2025-05-02T01:51:09Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > That one I call **[Boris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFuUaCe8eY)**. I _knew_ what that one was going to be. I have a pretty good idea of what my subject matter will bee, as long as I don't bumble it. ---
**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 2, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1461 "2025-05-02T14:04:42Z")
That was obvious, wasn’t it? But you did not know the Spider Murphy Gang? For Germans of a certain age that is just as obvious. 😂 ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1462 "2025-05-03T22:58:39Z")
Wow, already some excellent entries. I’m afraid I’ll have to sit this one out since I’m pretty sure I don’t have any good candidates. ---
**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 4, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1463 "2025-05-04T00:31:06Z")
Close-up cat pictures count! @Dogginit, what the hell’s that?! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=74)