# 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:** 94
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1864 "2025-12-03T16:27:14Z")
Heh, not surprising. I’m going to guess it’s high on the list of most photographed cities in the world. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1865 "2025-12-03T17:10:36Z")
For Jeff: [![](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-t92icwauxOxseKXbPzhAJ_Kbs13yOIZbgM5vwjsHUbCIQzUKbnARxFq7jyX39gxZ5cYdfB3jRoL_VZILaXEufg?cn=THISLIFE&res=medium&ts=1764781771108) ](https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/render/00-t92icwauxOxseKXbPzhAJ_Kbs13yOIZbgM5vwjsHUbCIQzUKbnARxFq7jyX39gxZ5cYdfB3jRoL_VZILaXEufg?cn=THISLIFE&res=medium&ts=1764781771108) ---
**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:** [December 3, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1866 "2025-12-03T17:57:59Z")
I enjoy participating even though some of my photos are quite lame. It’s interesting to see everyone’s contributions, and also their interpretations of the themes. I got excited with this month’s theme. Thanks @Turek , and congratulations on your win! I’m a Road Warrior of sorts. My wife and I prefer traveling on road trips. I do 99% of the driving, and I don’t mind that, and my wife gets to rest and sleep when she wants to as she recovers from her injuries and surgeries. I’m somewhat of a control freak especially on the road, driving super defensively (and yet at the same time, also assertively), so I like to drive. Always have, and maybe always will. Anyway it works for us! I have to figure out which pic to submit. Or maybe I’ll take a new one. Not sure yet. So many roads, so little time… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1867 "2025-12-03T19:33:54Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Is that Australia, @GuanoLad? I saw vistas like that when we were there some years ago. Yes, it’s Tasmania. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1868 "2025-12-03T20:54:26Z")
I just posted my pic (here ➜ [Monthly Photo Competition #37– December, 2025 – “On the Road” - #12 by Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-37-december-2025-on-the-road/1025331/12) ■ ). I stopped at the sign for the Continental Divide. An interesting trivia tidbit is that on I-80 there are two (not one) signs for the Continental Divide about 50 miles apart, because I-80 crosses the Great Divide Basin. I believe this was the second sign, but it was a few years ago and I don’t exactly remember. Added — @Raza , 2 road pics from Wyoming posted at the same time! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1869 "2025-12-03T21:09:38Z")
How funny! I ended up….err, I’ll add my comment about the photo until after the competition closes. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1870 "2025-12-03T23:26:43Z")
I’ll always toss in a picture if I have one that fits, no matter that it probably won’t win. It’s just that I don’t take very many pictures at all, so I usually don’t have one that would fit. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1871 "2025-12-04T00:25:40Z")
I need a ruling here: would this qualify? Call it a lane (mostly off to the right)? I realize it’s stretching the theme quite possibly too far. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreihnlp223zb6ss3txitl3fltvl2osvhs5j3ap6tgaoxsft3nd4kxsu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreihnlp223zb6ss3txitl3fltvl2osvhs5j3ap6tgaoxsft3nd4kxsu@jpeg) ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1872 "2025-12-04T00:40:15Z")
Rules? In a knife fight? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1873 "2025-12-04T00:42:13Z")
Bring a gun. @EddyTeddyFreddy I think it’s a fine picture. Your call. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1874 "2025-12-04T00:46:17Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > “On the road” in the sense of a photo taken while traveling? In general, any time during a trip, or more specifically taken during the active travel? Or a picture literally taken on a road? Or more abstractly on (or of) any avenue of transportation which might metaphorically be labeled “a road”? > > Or do we just post something _we believe_ qualifies and let the community’s votes determine if it’s too much of a stretch? 😆 > > > [@Turek](#): > > > > Yes. Any and all of those, and more. 🙂 > [@WildaBeast](#): > > Yes, IIRC in the past the rule has been that you’re free to interpret the theme however you want. In fact I think we’re encouraged to, so we can have a greater variety of entries. @EddyTeddyFreddy, this is what was stated earlier in the thread. I think the interpretation is really up to you. If you feel in qualifies, post it. If you have trepidation, maybe choose something else. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1875 "2025-12-04T00:48:17Z")
Thanks. My problem is, I can’t think of anything else in my files that qualifies. I think my hesitation is telling me not to post 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:** [December 4, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1876 "2025-12-04T00:51:13Z")
To me it looks like something you could see if you were driving down an old country road on a cold winter’s day. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1877 "2025-12-04T00:51:49Z")
I try to post a picture every month, and sometimes I do really have to stretch the theme to find something that fits, but I post it anyway (although I find I generally don’t get very many votes when I do that). ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1878 "2025-12-04T00:54:38Z")
Thanks for the encouragement. There’s still plenty of time for me to fire up an older computer and poke around in the older photo files there, might find something better. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1879 "2025-12-04T01:14:17Z")
Just be sure to have fun. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1880 "2025-12-04T01:28:36Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Thanks. My problem is, I can’t think of anything else in my files that qualifies. I think my hesitation is telling me not to post it. That should settle it: If you have something you think fits better, post that, but if you don’t think you have anything else that fits better, why not post it? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1881 "2025-12-04T06:08:48Z")
Well then! An archaeological dig into my photo files is ON for the weekend! I’ll have to keep looking. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreid6jlmtswgmb4kr43r5rklghlrjom4a4gsrg6uew23ybizcaenk2u@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreid6jlmtswgmb4kr43r5rklghlrjom4a4gsrg6uew23ybizcaenk2u@jpeg) ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1882 "2025-12-04T16:20:31Z")
Here’s one of my nice Australia pictures. I decided not to use it though. 😁 [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/5529/11516172766_a40eb30ed2_b.jpg "DSC01519") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/45215582@N06/11516172766/) ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1883 "2025-12-04T19:39:15Z")
So many cool photos to choose from. Only one entry though. Here’s one that I didn’t use: [![](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-bmjcdZq/0/MTMj5PmMqj6BK4bM8NqbmvGGvJtjKJBVSn4xpMtv6/O/i-bmjcdZq.jpg) ](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-bmjcdZq/0/MTMj5PmMqj6BK4bM8NqbmvGGvJtjKJBVSn4xpMtv6/O/i-bmjcdZq.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=95)