May Photo of the Month Contest!!

There's something fishy about this month's POTM contest! :D 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!!

ONE:
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...1/7/6/spee.jpg

TWO:
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../cimg5459a.jpg

THREE:
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...2/img_1735.jpg

FOUR:
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...1/dsc03525.jpg

FIVE:
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...2/pic00019.jpg

SIX:
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...5/dscf1541.jpg

SEVEN:
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...5/dsc04997.jpg

EIGHT:
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...75l_969602.jpg


Good luck everyone!!

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.

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

#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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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Oscar :P

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Originally Posted by kc261

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.

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

Insects!

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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!!!

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'!

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Originally Posted by 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'!

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Thanks! That was my old boy Spencer, had to sell him when I moved but that fish would eat anything, which was surprising. And believe it or not I bought that fish from ACE Hardware.

I voted for #1, the discus. I've kept tropical fish for ever. I've got 2 books on discus, but never kept the king of aquarium fish.

I have to admit that I love big fish and there isn't one with more personality than an oscar. IMO

#3. Love oscars and I can't wait to own one for myself.

As an idea for the next contest, how about beach pics. Its almost summertime and people are starting to hit the beaches. Why not have some artistic pics of the beach or beach-related things?

(I only say this because I could not take a macro shot to save my life)

I'm not sure if we can say which picture is ours, but since I'm not going to win I hope it's ok.

That is my Oscar. They make awesome pets, fish wise at least. They are very friendly and actually "care" when you come home, although, I'm sure it's only for food. They are a fun fish to keep because they eat smaller fish, those small comets at the pet store in bulk. I think I might have a problem with liking pets that eat other pets..... I would recommend one, but you can only keep them with other semi aggressive cichlids or by themselves because they will eat everything that fits in their mouth. I had two that lived peacefully together for several years. That one in the picture lived with zebra cichlids and firemouth cichlids. Oh and a large pleco.


Theme, pictures of food?

Damnit! Wish I heard about this one earlier. I am primarily a fishkeeper, i have tons of tanks of super rare stuff, and hundreds of photos. Oh well.

BTW to the poster above, I'd recomend NOT feeding your oscar comet goldfish... they contain thiaminsae, a compound that breaks down thiamine (vitamin b1) and causes a nutritional deficiency in your fish...

It's ok to identify your pictures...they're not secret. Anyone who wants to know who's is who's, they can check the contest gallery and see the names. The numbers are used in the polls primarily because it's the fastest and easiest way to set them up each month.

Keep giving your suggestions for POTM themes. I'm not commenting on any of them because I don't want to show any signs of favoritism. ;) I'll be accepting ideas until I post the contest winners.