I’ve tried to come up with something for this month, but no go. I was hoping I might have a good/funny photo of my cats racing around, but no luck - I’ll have to sit this one out.
There are other races that also happen. Yukon Quest is one of them. It’s a 1,000 mile race between Fairbanks, AK and Whitehorse, YT, switching directions every year. The Kuskokwim 300 that follows the Kuskokwim River from Bethel to Aniak and back. It’s one of the most competitive and lucrative races in the world. Also the Copper Basin 300 that begins and ends in Glennallen, billed as “the toughest 300 miles in Alaska”. Forward the video to about the 25 minute mark to see some really enthusiastic doggies.
Yeah, I’ve been trying to catch the equines racing to their dinner, but no dice.
Nothing resembling a race has occurred near me. Not even at the racetrack across the road from my workplace. Though I probably wouldn’t have gotten a good shot of that either as I’d need a fancy telephoto lens I expect.
I had a few photos from the 2014 Amgen Tour of California cycling race in my archives, but I didn’t think any of them were really good enough to enter. So I stretched the definition of “racing” a bit and went with my “predator chasing prey” photo.
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Congratulations to @romansperson, our June winner! This is romansperson’s 5th win; their first win was September, 2024 and their most recent win was March, 2026
romansperson, please let us know our July theme.
My picture was taken shortly after that guy (Pete Kaiser) won the 2019 Iditarod. It was taken around 0330 in the morning in Nome AK (where the race finishes).
To get his face I yelled out to him, “Hey Pete, congratulations!” When he turned to look, I snapped his photo.
Thanks, MM (and also thank you for keeping this going)!
How about “Beautiful” for the next theme?
Is Pete the one in the hat, or the one in the collar?
If it was “Handsome” I’d win with a selfie (I’m humble, too!) but beautiful? Thanks for giving us a narrow category to choose from! 
It’s interesting that we’ve gone from a topic that felt quite specific last month to one that is extremely broad and so subjective (i.e. eye of the beholder and all that).
Now I’m asking myself, do I have any “beautiful” photos in my archive?? I hope so!
Yeah, me too. A quick look-see, though, didn’t present any obvious candidates despite the broad topic.
mmm
I’m hoping someone comes up with a good pic of spacious skies, amber waves of grain, and purple mountains majesty.
All the dogs just ignore me.
And on that, I wonder if it might be a good idea to remind people of the guidelines for choosing themes from the OP:
Given the fairly low participation in last month’s contest, I wonder if last month’s theme was either too specific, or people were reluctant to interpret the theme as anything other than a literal race.
I definitely didn’t have anything remotely like a literal race, so I was trying to think of something clever (or at least cute like my cats “racing”), but I couldn’t come up with anything. Oh well, no biggie.
So easy, and yet so hard 
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Are the photos you submit for the photo contest more often:
- A photo from my files that took previously.
- A photo that I took after the theme was announced.
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