May Photo of the Month Contest!!

[JLC]

There's something fishy about this month's POTM contest! Thanks for all the entries, guys!

And as an added bonus for this contest thread...I'm taking suggestions for next month's theme! Submit them as a post here when you vote...one idea per person, please. And I'll choose the theme when I announce the winning pictures. The best ideas are creative, unique, and that will allow the most members to participate. Let's hear 'em!

And now...on to the vote!!

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Good luck everyone!!

[Seneschal]

Very nice photos everyone! Fish are really cool. What is the species of number 3? Looks like a lava flow or something. Very cool!

Idea theme for next month: Non-biological natural phenomenons.

[Aes_Sidhe]

Nice Pictures everybody...
Idea from Me?? Sunrise/Sunset... I know everybody is Doing This type of Pictures... That way we don't gonna have problem that we don't have enough

[Stalker Jesus]

I think next month should be pictures of cacti. That's all we have here in arizona.

[kc261]

#3 is an oscar cichlid. They are very cool fish that are more interactive with their owners than many species of fish. They can even be trained:
http://www.graspr.com/videos/The-Lea...-Tiger-Oscar-1

Here's an idea for POTM that could be really fun if we get some good participation. Take a photo of a relatively common object that everyone should be able to recognize, but take a detail of one small part of it or perhaps take the photo at an odd angle, so it becomes something of a riddle to figure out what the object in the picture is. Some examples: everyone can recognize a golf ball, but will they realize what it is if the picture is a close-up of the dimpled texture, with no context or size reference? Everyone can recognize a pencil, but will they realize what it is if the picture is a close-up of only the metal part that hold the eraser on? In judging the photos to decide which one to vote on, members can consider how much fun they had in solving the riddle.

[Tater]

Very nice photos everyone! Fish are really cool. What is the species of number 3? Looks like a lava flow or something. Very cool!

Idea theme for next month: Non-biological natural phenomenons.

Oscar

[LGL]

Here's an idea for POTM that could be really fun if we get some good participation. Take a photo of a relatively common object that everyone should be able to recognize, but take a detail of one small part of it or perhaps take the photo at an odd angle, so it becomes something of a riddle to figure out what the object in the picture is. Some examples: everyone can recognize a golf ball, but will they realize what it is if the picture is a close-up of the dimpled texture, with no context or size reference? Everyone can recognize a pencil, but will they realize what it is if the picture is a close-up of only the metal part that hold the eraser on? In judging the photos to decide which one to vote on, members can consider how much fun they had in solving the riddle.

That's what I was thinking too. Macro shots of common objects. People could be very creative with that.

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

Insects!

[Seneschal]

#3 is an oscar cichlid. They are very cool fish that are more interactive with their owners than many species of fish. They can even be trained:
http://www.graspr.com/videos/The-Lea...-Tiger-Oscar-1

Here's an idea for POTM that could be really fun if we get some good participation. Take a photo of a relatively common object that everyone should be able to recognize, but take a detail of one small part of it or perhaps take the photo at an odd angle, so it becomes something of a riddle to figure out what the object in the picture is. Some examples: everyone can recognize a golf ball, but will they realize what it is if the picture is a close-up of the dimpled texture, with no context or size reference? Everyone can recognize a pencil, but will they realize what it is if the picture is a close-up of only the metal part that hold the eraser on? In judging the photos to decide which one to vote on, members can consider how much fun they had in solving the riddle.

On second thought, forget my original idea. I vote for you!!!


Also, thanks for the info on the oscar cichlid! If I ever have fish again (Mr. Fishy, my betta, died a few months back) I might get one of them. That's awesome that you can train them!!!

[4theSNAKElady]

That discus in #1 is absolutely gorgeous! And kudos to the person who owns him....those guys are hard to keep....it looks like it could even possibly be a Jack Wattley variey.....
as for the theme, how about super or macro-close-up pics of insects??? It is spring after all, and man them bugs they are a flyin'!