Really interesting. I balanced roughly equally three ways (or as close as I could with the poll) in that I think the subject and photographic merit are both important… but the ones that jump out at me always have that indefinable something that grabs my attention.
Picking my three favourites is usually instinctive rather than scientific.
A quick request: can everyone remember (or write down) who they voted for, and check the poll every now and again to make sure their votes are all still counting properly?
I’m keen to avoid a repeat of last month’s problem 1 or at least catch it early.
OK, I have written down three strange user names on a piece of paper. If I die under mysterious circumstances, the detectives will tear their hair out trying to understand this “important clue”.
Found it.
Yep.
How did you do it?
Yes, I tried to scribble mine so that no one can read them but me!
Yeah, it’s the ones that jump out at me that I vote for. Granted this will be in part the subject and the technique etc (so I tried to allow for these in @Karen_Lingel 's polls). But mostly it’s, Wow, me like! And, frankly, I don’t think it should be any other way.
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ETA: and, for whatever reason, I seem to largely agree with the mood in the room. When I got my shortlist down to four just now, the photos currently in first, second and third place were on it! (The fourth photo on my shortlist had zero votes. Curious.)
Quick reminder that the deadline for voting is tomorrow night (just under 24 hours from now). I’ve done my duty and voted, and as usual it was a tough choice.
I don’t think I’m going to be in the frame for picking the next one! 
I hope it’s not too much of a hijack to say I learnt some great tips about finding the location of photos from this YouTube video and so I wonder if you also used Overpass Turbo?
And that’s it for another month… and congratulations @Scougs who wins the competition! @Scougs, please PM me with your choice of theme for the next one (as ever, I’ll gently gesture towards the first post in this thread which has some guidance about picking a theme).
Another fantastic month - well done all.
I am quite ridiculously pleased! Thanks for the votes. The photo was very much a right place, right time cellphone shot. Tobermory on the Isle of Mull is a special place.
I don’t mind sharing that you got one of my votes. I loved the way the light was hitting the boats.
Hi everyone, the theme for August, chosen by @Scougs is “Home”. I’m looking forward to this one - I love seeing how themes are interpreted.
The competition thread is here. Good luck!
Well, I don’t usually like to enter right away, but I took this photo the other day and can’t imagine I’ll take one that would fit this category any better.
@enipla I’m replying here to the question you asked in post #11 of the competition thread, because I’m trying to keep the competition threads only for the photos themselves (it makes compiling the poll much easier).
To answer your question…you can interpret “home” however you like. Either of the suggestions you made are fine, as are any other interpretations. If you feel it’s on-topic, then it’s on-topic.
In other words, it’s a very wide brief, by design.
Ok. Well this is a picture of moose in our yard. He’s about 25 feet from our front door. We have to be a bit cautious.
But it’s kinda cool having these guys around.
Ya need to click the picture to see his full rack. He’s a big fellow.
I guess home is where the moose are. And bears. Don’t forget the bears.
[ [Album] Imgur: The magic of the Internet  ](https://imgur.com/a/rOimEru)
In order to have your picture show up in its entirety, you need to paste just the picture’s URL ending with “jpg”. To do that, I open the picture in its own tab, then copy that URL and paste it in the post on its own line.
I think, anyway.
ETA: viola! or cello, whichever
@enipla Just to concur with what @TwoCarrotSnowman said - it’s whatever you want it to be.
I came up with the theme, and specifically chose it because it can mean so many different things to different people. The guidelines for choosing a theme for the competition are to make it broad and open to interpretation. I’m loving the entries so far.
Yep, that’s what I do (with Imgur, but it’s the same thing).
But I’ve spent some of today looking at the previous month’s threads and digging into the raw html to look at the links (all part of my quest to automate as much of the admin for this as possible) and it looks like Discourse does, in some cases, derive an image tag from a link to the album rather than the direct .jpg photo.
