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Title: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: CC27 on October 21, 2022, 11:56:31 AM
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Star Member AndyS (13,043 posts)


Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!

Congratulations to the winners of our October Photo Contest!!

First Place:

Drill Bits by Mz Pip

(https://i.imgur.com/NYMdsFb.jpg)

Second Place:

An Umbrella Comes in Handy by Walleye

(https://i.ibb.co/zQ3yqP6/75-F0-A9-F7-6-CDE-4053-90-C4-B086-B72-FE27-D.jpg)
Third Place:

Tools of the Crab Trade by Dyedinthewoolliberal
(https://i.imgur.com/VcVX3tc.jpg)

Honors to all who made the finals and great appreciation to all who entered and shared their vision with us.


Mz Pip wins the honor of choosing the next contest theme and I look forward to seeing her idea!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217272118

WTF????? What weird photos.
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: Mary Ann on October 21, 2022, 12:47:29 PM
WTF????? What weird photos.

Maybe artsy people get it, but I don't.
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: SVPete on October 21, 2022, 01:33:52 PM
I wonder how my avatar photo - me in front of the Y turret of HMS Belfast - would go over.  :-)
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: DefiantSix on October 21, 2022, 01:48:23 PM
I wonder how my avatar photo - me in front of the Y turret of HMS Belfast - would go over.  :-)

Probably get your mole banned for posting terrorist threats. Half the DUmp (the non-mole portion) would need grief counsellors to get them back on an even keel again (or as close a semblance of it as the crazies at the DUmp get, anyway).
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: DUmpDiver on October 21, 2022, 03:49:48 PM
The drill bits one is downright stupid. :rofl:

Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: freedumb2003b on October 21, 2022, 03:51:58 PM
The drill bits one is downright stupid. :rofl:

The DUmmies think it is exotic simce most of them have never actually USED a drill.
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: ADsOutburst on October 21, 2022, 05:49:18 PM
Of all the possibilities, a picture of drill of bits is just about the last thing I would expect to be selected as the winning photo in a contest on DU. Just seems... odd.
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: RuralNc on October 21, 2022, 08:02:45 PM
Drill bits. Drill. Bits.  :???:

Im sure the DUmp Mutts see it as an analogy for drilling down to the truth. Or some such metaphorical B.S.  :hammer:
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: DefiantSix on October 21, 2022, 08:17:10 PM
 :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

They all see themselves as the collective's poet/artist, never realizing that the position requires more talent than these plodding hacks have ever seen, and "connections" such as these imbeciles believe they have, only in real life.
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: jukin on October 22, 2022, 10:01:30 AM
The DUmmies think it is exotic simce most of them have never actually USED a drill.

First thing I noticed is all of those bits are unused.
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: SVPete on October 22, 2022, 10:34:34 AM
Scenic pictures such as this are more to my taste:

(https://cdn.fortross.org/uploads/webimages/sandy-cove-s.png)

But I "get" the drill bits and crabbing equipment pix. They are "studies" of colors, textures, light, and geometric patterns. I still prefer the MendoNoma Coast, though.
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: ADsOutburst on October 22, 2022, 10:57:50 AM
But I "get" the drill bits and crabbing equipment pix. They are "studies" of colors, textures, light, and geometric patterns. I still prefer the MendoNoma Coast, though.

I'll admit the third photo is kind of cool. Sometimes paintings look highly realistic, whereas this photo kind of looks like a painting to me.
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: SVPete on October 22, 2022, 11:28:28 AM
I'll admit the third photo is kind of cool. Sometimes paintings look highly realistic, whereas this photo kind of looks like a painting to me.

To me, the crabbing eq pic looks Photoshopped to enhance both colors and contrast. AFAIK, the aerial pic I posted above of Fort Ross is not enhanced, showing the stockade, cove, visitor center, State Highway 1, and the ravine (probably a creek, which may have supplied water to the fort) and trees the highway circles around. The visitors center and its parking area are relatively new The open area between the stockade and the highway is where visitors used to park.
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: CollectivismMustDie on October 22, 2022, 02:15:37 PM
This is far more beautiful than any of their crap:

(https://hips.hearstapps.com/autoweek/assets/s3fs-public/2015-SEMA-Chevrolet-1970-Camaro-RS-035.jpg)
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: landofconfusion80 on October 22, 2022, 08:25:40 PM
The drill bits reminded me of a story from a college welding class. Liberal studies for the most part were mocked and ridiculed in my department.  There were some "artist" majors that tried welding. They managed to leave slag that looked like rain drops across a big flat plate of metal. The instructor came by and informed them that they were doing it wrong and their methods needed work and their welds wouldn't hold. "But it's pretty!!!"
Title: Re: Winners of the October Photo Contest announced!!
Post by: Dblhaul on October 23, 2022, 11:50:11 AM
The drill bits one is downright boring. hehehe