Pic of the week game

[Burque73]

Here's where we've been this year:

#	theme	winner	# of wins	pics	votes
1	What is the sun shining on	redman	1	10	14
2	profile	Dave R	1	17	18
3	my favorite picture	burque	1	17	16
4	peak / peek / pique	kerrfunk	1	11	15
5	silhouette	sandy	1	12	13
6	vineyard	trevor	1	8	10
7	tourist attraction	marvinsc	1	12	11
8	where the hell am i	baatfam	1	12	15
9	three	redman	2	15	13
10	colorful background	kerrfunk	2	14	12
11	Biker's POV	bccap	1	13	13
12	where you live	burque	2	9	14
13	fun perspective	kerrfunk	3	8	10
14	New to You	dorkburger	1	15	9
15	under cover	rich	1	13	11
16	detail	dorkburger	2	17	16
17	Spring theme.	KillRamsey	1	13	13
18	down low / bug's eye view	Sandy	2	17	15
19	deterioration / something ugly	dorkburger	3	12	14
20	wall	gustovh	1	14	13
21	with a stranger	redman	3	7	12
22	This should be good	sandy	3	14	11
23	old	marvinsc	2	13	10
24	flora fauna	murdoch	1	14	11
25	gear	agemax	1	11	14
26	with a boat	agemax	2	12	11
27	wildlife	rich	2	8	15
28	atmospheric phenomena	burque	3	13	16
29	interesting rock formation	redman	4	10	10
30	on the road	baatfam	2	12	13
31	new and old	redman	5	11	17
32	looking through	jedz	1	10	10
33	green power	jedz	2	9	15
34	hallowed ground	jedz	3	12	12
35	where you came from / stomping grounds	sandy	4	14	14
36	panorama	kerrfunk	4	8	11
37	make me laugh	baatfam	3	14	14
38	apparently useless but not	dorkburger	4	10	15
39	lighting effects	gustovh	2	9	14
40	where I live	dorkburger	5	12	13
41	on the town	rich	3	11	12
42	water	jedz	4	18	15
43	big sky (picked by rich)	trevor	2	17	11
44	where it shouldn't be parked	murdoch	2	15	14
45	inclusive	baatfam	4	16	12
46	nostalgia	murdoch	3	12	15
47	influencing the next gen	dpep	1	16	12

I was reading through the previous themes and thought, you know what would be really cool, Kerry. If each one of the themes named in your spreadsheet here was a link to that post. Or maybe the post that has the compiled pics for that particular week. I have seen folks post links to a specific post in a thread, but haven't figured out how to do that myself.

[dpep]

I am a little late by eastern time. My vote would be for Burque again in any case. Appropriate to theme and framed well. I thought it made good contrast to the one I put up at the beginning. One bike and tent in the swamp against two bikes and tents in the mountains.
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[Burque73]

Happy Saturday morning to you.

I'll go ahead and tally up the week's votes. At first nearly every pic got a vote, which was cool to watch. Receiving two votes was Jedz123 and my pic got the most at seven votes. Thank you all who liked that shot.

I forgot to mention that was The City Of Rocks State Park. I have something in mind for this coming week. Be back shortly.

[dpep]

Gonna hafta go with kerrfunk...
The pixelation gives it a nice impressionistic, painterly look...

Impressionist painting was exactly my thought when I saw kerrfunk's pic. It is something I would consider hanging on a wall in my house.

Kerry, how was it shot? Camera settings or Vaseline on the lens?
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[Redman]

I was reading through the previous themes and thought, you know what would be really cool, Kerry. If each one of the themes named in your spreadsheet here was a link to that post. Or maybe the post that has the compiled pics for that particular week. I have seen folks post links to a specific post in a thread, but haven't figured out how to do that myself.

I tried to do something like that, thought I could make a link to a posting, then copy-paste and just change the post number... but the code of the link doesn’t have the thread post number. But maybe Kerry has some other way to have that on his spreadsheet. Or perhaps just list the post number would be of some use. Maybe post number of naming the catagory-theme would get to start of all the submission. Or maybe post number of winning pic, but then would have to go forward and back to see others. May not always have a summary (is not part of official procedures).
But that listing of past subject-themes is something that Kerry has volunteered to do, so whatever he suggests and is willing to do.

I will say that has been occassion I have looked at the list, and wanted to go back and find the associated postings, and found it somewhat difficult.

[dpep]

Okay, I just ran a little test. I edited my post starting the Camp Out theme. It was post #4423 in this thread. I put that string, #4423, as the last line in the post.

The bar at the top or each page of posts has the option "Search this thread." I clicked on it and searched that string. It worked.

If we wanted to do it this way my suggestion would be for each winner to edit their theme starter post(s) adding the post # (including the #) and then pass those numbers to Kerry. I am assuming he could add that column to his spreadsheet.

It is one possibility anyway.
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[Baatfam]

I did this back in 2018, early 2019...but it was kind of a pain, and as far as I know, no one used it.

Date	Theme	Created By	# of Entries	Winner	Winning Post #
1/21/2018	Low Light	Burque73	7	dorkburger	4
1/27/2018	Interesting/peculiar roadside attraction	dorkburger	7	Burque73	37
2/3/2018	On the border	Burque73	5	Mrs. Steve	65
2/10/2018	Slightly less than perfect riding weather	Mrs. Steve	7	Jedz123	?
2/18/2018	Bikes of GSR Rallys	Jedz123	5	Burque73	141
2/24/2018	Sports	Burque73	5	trevor	159
3/3/2018	Playing with sunlight	trevor	7	Redman	194
3/10/2018	Reflection	Redman	9	storm 64	232
3/17/2018	Motorcycle packed down	storm 64	8	Sandy	257
3/24/2018	Something twisty	Sandy	10	Steve	278
3/31/2018	Water	Steve	11	Baatfam	310
4/7/2018	On or near a bridge	Baatfam	11	Redman	371
4/14/2018	Lonely road	Redman	16	Burque73	409
4/21/2018	What's up?	Burque73	13	Redman	469
4/28/2018	Outstanding In a Field (or at least in view)	Redman	10	Sandy	509
5/5/2018	"Special Effect"	Sandy	8	Gustovh	558, 574(big)
5/12/2018	"...something different that includes a part of your bike…"	Gustovh	10	dorkburger	598
5/19/2018	your bike casting a shadow	dorkburger	9	Burque73	653
5/26/2019	Downtown	Burque73	9	Jedz123	693
6/2/2018	Live Action	Jedz123	11	kerrfunk	721
6/9/2018	Picture with a passenger	kerrfunk	8	trevor	749
6/16/2018	"…your bike with some form of 'Heavy equipment'."	Trevor	4	Redman	794
6/23/2018	Bike at the water	Redman	14	Jedz123	809
6/30/2018	Mountains	Jedz123	9	trevor	867
7/7/2018	Sunset	Trevor	13	gustovh	895
7/14/2018	Field repairs	gustovh	9	Baatfam	948
7/21/2018	Out in the rain	Baatfam	7	Burque73	988
7/28/2018	"…one or more farm animals…"	Burque73	8	cowboyup3371	1016
8/4/2018	"...your bike with any art."	cowboyup3371	10	Burque73	1037
8/11/2018	"…and interesting or really old church."	Burque73	11	Steve Murdoch	1072
8/18/2018	"...your bike with a flag."	Steve Murdoch	12	Storm64	1139, 1140(big)
8/25/2018	Aviation	Storm64	11	wacky941	1175
9/1/2018	Monumental	wacky941	10	Redman	1233
9/8/2018	"Bike In Unexpected Place"	Redman	14	Charlie G	1272
9/15/2018	"Places of Spiritual Meaning"	Charlie G	10	Downs	1319
9/22/2018	"...with a piece of emergency equipment."	Downs	10	Baatfam	1353
9/29/2018	Gigantic animal	Baatfam	9	Charlie G	1406
10/6/2018	High Places/Things	Charlie G	11	dorkburger	1469
10/13/2018	Halloween / harvest	dorkburger	8	trevor	1506
10/20/2018	"dusk"	trevor	13	trevor	1540
10/27/2018	"a panoramic photo"	trevor	11	Burque73	1622
11/3/2018	Bike, Night and Lights	Burque73	14	dorkburger	1694
11/10/2018	Nature taking over	dorkburger	13	Baatfam	1778
11/17/2018	"Glamour Shot," or "Print Ad"	Baatfam	17	Jedz123	1847
11/24/2018	Passing the tourch	Jedz123	14	kerrfunk	1913
12/1/2018	Here's Your Sign - Your bike with a roadsign	kerrfunk	13	Sandy	1977
12/8/2018	"…a camping shot."	Sandy	8	Sandy	2056
12/15/2018	…show a bit of the personality of where you live.	Sandy	15	DaveR	2117
12/22/2018	"clouds"	DaveR	18	Burque73	2183
12/29/2018	What is the sun setting on?	Burque73	10	Redman	2231

[Baatfam]

Also this:

[Burque73]

I will say that has been occassion I have looked at the list, and wanted to go back and find the associated postings, and found it somewhat difficult.

Exactly.

Okay, I just ran a little test. I edited my post starting the Camp Out theme. It was post #4423 in this thread. I put that string, #4423, as the last line in the post.

The bar at the top or each page of posts has the option "Search this thread." I clicked on it and searched that string. It worked.

If we wanted to do it this way my suggestion would be for each winner to edit their theme starter post(s) adding the post # (including the #) and then pass those numbers to Kerry. I am assuming he could add that column to his spreadsheet.

It is one possibility anyway.
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That's a great idea. The only issue is if someone deletes a post it throws off the post numbers from then on.

I did this back in 2018, early 2019...but it was kind of a pain, and as far as I know, no one used it.

That's kinda what I figured. A lot of time/ effort would be involved. Maybe moving forward this coming year we could include a searchable phrase in the theme setting post, sorta like Dpep suggested. I just tried searching for "camping" and it brought up two pages of posts with related verbiage.

[Burque73]

I've not been the best theme setter, but let's try fog.

Some sort of fog, haze, smoke, shot through a cheese cloth or whatever you feel gives that sort of impression.

[dorkburger]

Beautiful shot.

[kerrfunk]

Gonna hafta go with kerrfunk...

The colors are wonderful...
The pixelation gives it a nice impressionistic, painterly look...

Impressionist painting was exactly my thought when I saw kerrfunk's pic. It is something I would consider hanging on a wall in my house.

Kerry, how was it shot? Camera settings or Vaseline on the lens?

I shot it on my cameraphone, and the details say ISO40, 1/320 sec. f/1.9 2.47mm, 2048x1536 pixels, 879.2 KB

I think I was standing a ways back, and used digital zoom to close frame the shot. You can kind of see that the bike is on the road, but the very bottom foreground is actually a split rail fence. I didn't use a tripod but I might have used something to stabilize the shot. I think the pixelation is due to the digital zoom. And I used whatever Microsoft photoeditor is on my computer to "warm" the colors up a bit, and soften the edges too. I wish the sign weren't there in front of the bike, but that's beyond my ability to remove.

I was reading through the previous themes and thought, you know what would be really cool, Kerry. If each one of the themes named in your spreadsheet here was a link to that post. Or maybe the post that has the compiled pics for that particular week. I have seen folks post links to a specific post in a thread, but haven't figured out how to do that myself.

I can work on that. Off the top of my head I think I'd link to the summation post, instead of the single winning picture for each week, what do you think?

I've not been the best theme setter, but let's try fog.

Some sort of fog, haze, smoke, shot through a cheese cloth or whatever you feel gives that sort of impression.

By the way, I got the same count as you did, and congrats on win #4.
Here's a fog shot I like, behind my previous residence, but there's no bike in it, lol.

[marvinsc]

WestVA2007014 by Scott Marvin, on Flickr

[trevor]

This was taken in Aug 2018....when half the province was on fire. Even the smoke came over to the island...

[cowboyup3371]

Trevor, your picture is trying to go to your Outlook live and isn't found