# 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:** 90
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1784 "2025-11-01T22:25:25Z")
Why is the road turning? It doesn’t look like there’s anything for it to avoid. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1785 "2025-11-02T05:08:12Z")
Is anyone else having trouble bookmarking the Nov competition thread? The thread claims to be bookmarked at the bottom of the thread, but it is nowhere to be found in my list of bookmarks. I can bookmark random other threads and they behave normally. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1786 "2025-11-02T12:23:27Z")
Welp, a first perusal of my photo archives has turned up…a whole lotta nothing. May have to go out and find something to shoot. 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:** [November 2, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1787 "2025-11-02T14:35:12Z")
Yes. I bookmarked it, and it doesn’t show up in my bookmarks list. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1788 "2025-11-03T00:54:40Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > May have to go out and find something to shoot. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1789 "2025-11-05T09:56:39Z")
If you’re one of those who does almost everything in your iPhone, I just posted steps for displaying from ImgBB here: ➜ [ImgBB on an iPhone, steps to display images for the SDMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imgbb-on-an-iphone-steps-to-display-images-for-the-sdmb/1024594) ■ ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1790 "2025-11-05T10:17:56Z")
I just posted my photo in the thread. ➜ [\*\*Monthly Photo Competition #36– November, 2025 – “A Whole Lot of \_\_\_\_\_”\*\* - #12 by Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-36-november-2025-a-whole-lot-of/1024478/12) ■ ← **A Whole Lot of Hills and Fresh Air** My wife’s aunt is in hospice care and we were told she only has a few days left. I was in the neighborhood (she’s 90 miles from us) so I stopped in to visit for a few hours. She was in her wheelchair and wanted to go for a walk, and when we passed an entry door she said she wanted to go outside. We walked and explored, and the fresh air and new scenery was cheering her up. At one spot I found a vantage point where she could look at the far off, distant hills. She perked right up. **A Whole Lot of Hills and Fresh Air** , it can do ya good. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1791 "2025-11-08T02:48:19Z")
OK, so maybe imgur isn’t visible in the UK… but imgbb isn’t visible, well, pretty much anywhere. At best, it seems to take like five minutes to load a picture. At worst, like right now, it just plain never loads it. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1792 "2025-11-08T03:34:24Z")
I’m using [Shutterfly](https://www.shutterfly.com/). Yes, it’s a retail site but uploading photos to their own section is easy. I’m just using it for photos I post here. I already had an old account so I’m not sure you have to make one. And I haven’t gotten any emails or anything else annoying from them as a member. 1. Upload photo 2. Double click to open photo 3. Right click to open image in new tab 4. Copy image link ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1793 "2025-11-08T03:53:24Z")
That didn’t actually work the way I said. I tried to post a photo but I had to extract the link from a whole lot of junk to get it to show up. While I was trying to figure out, the edit time expired. There is a way. I used it last month for the contest. I’ll try to figure it out. Damn, this shouldn’t’ be so complicated! ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1794 "2025-11-08T04:04:44Z")
[![](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-t92icwauxOxseKXbPzhAJ_Kbs13yOIZbgM5vwjsHUbDjwjcrqrd3sIJHKw6Uc6KpKwg5ydwHipy3aIZBf9dNYQ?cn=THISLIFE&res=large&ts=1762053348) ](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-t92icwauxOxseKXbPzhAJ_Kbs13yOIZbgM5vwjsHUbDjwjcrqrd3sIJHKw6Uc6KpKwg5ydwHipy3aIZBf9dNYQ?cn=THISLIFE&res=large&ts=1762053348) From Shutterfly, using Chrome browser: 1. Double click on the image so the image is on display. 2. Right-click on the image and select “Copy Image Address” from the menu. 3. Paste it into you edit window on its own line. (I’m using the original editor mode.) ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1795 "2025-11-08T04:13:43Z")
Thank you! I was making it more complicated than it is. 😁 ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1796 "2025-11-08T07:25:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > OK, so maybe imgur isn’t visible in the UK… but imgbb isn’t visible, well, pretty much anywhere. At best, it seems to take like five minutes to load a picture. At worst, like right now, it just plain never loads it. Same here. I was hoping others are doing better. I’ve had to give up on the current photo posting thread because I can’t see much of anything posted. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1797 "2025-11-08T15:59:25Z")
Same with me, at least on an iPhone/Safari. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1798 "2025-11-08T16:11:52Z")
  It seems to me that if this forum really wants to hold a regular series of photo contests, then it needs to allow photos to be hosted on its own server, and not depend on the vicissitudes of third-party hosts. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1799 "2025-11-08T21:24:36Z")
“This forum” is not one entity. @Mean_Mr.Mustard wants to hold a regular series of photo contests. Chicago Public Radio, or whoever our current owner is, does not want the site to host user-posted pictures. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2025, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1800 "2025-11-09T09:09:51Z")
Windows 11, current version of Chrome. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1801 "2025-11-11T22:47:09Z")
What did you expect in november in the dark of the night? Amazing some are still half standing. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1802 "2025-11-11T23:54:08Z")
I’ve got an AC/DC song stuck in my head now. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2025, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1803 "2025-11-12T12:05:53Z")
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