***JUNE/ SPRING Seasonal Photo Contest: Comments Thread***

[mnhtnbb]

Please use this thread for comments about this month's contest, or to ask questions.

The SUBMISSIONS thread is here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1036102007

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[AndyS]

2. I'm in!

Spring is my thing!

[LakeArenal]

3. Happy spring!

[HAB911]

30. Forgot to say how much I love your gooogly eyes!

Ms Katy Did

[LakeArenal]

31. Thanks so much!!

It’s so hard to decide sometimes.

[urbanhermit]

4. I'm in

Looking forward to another great contest.

[mnhtnbb]

5. We're off to a great start!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I'm in! Thought I'd try something a bit different.

I took my photo in Smith Oaks Sanctuary, TX. Andy had been there before and wanted to see it again, and I was game, so we went. This bird really cooperated!

I decided to write its name on the photo. I'm curious as to how the members of the Photo Group, and of course, of DU at large, will respond to my doing that.

Great entries so far!

[urbanhermit]

8. Beautiful capture!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Thanks so much, my dear urbanhermit! It really helped that it wasn't trying to fly away! ♥

[Callalily]

11. Great photo!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Thanks! I'm glad you like it, my dear Callalily! ♥

[Grumpy Old Guy]

7. Darn you AndyS! LOL!

(Just kidding) 😉😁

I was going to enter a shot that is almost identical to yours.

I guess it's time for Plan B.

Good luck!

[AndyS]

14. You should share that with the rest of the photo group!

Thanks for letting me see it, it's really a great shot!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

15. AndyS beat me to it.

I was going to enter a shot of a honey bee doing its thing, buy AndyS beat me to it. Here is the shot I was going to enter. I went with the California poppies instead.

[Walleye]

9. My hummingbird posed in the portrait light,the return of the hummingbirds feels like a renewal to me

I think the same ones came back from last year. She came right up to the window and looked me in the eye and I’m sure I felt recognition, maybe crazy.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

13. Great shots so far.

This is going to be a great competition.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Are you thinking yet of allowing a second submission? n/t

[mnhtnbb]

17. It's early, yet.

We had a rush of entries early. Let's hope we'll pick up some more before the weekend.

It never hurts to have a second entry ready!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. True! I do have a second entry ready, however. n/t

[Grumpy Old Guy]

19. I have my 2nd entry ready.

[HAB911]

20. Normally I have nothing for seasonals

this year a first ever Yucca Bloom, 15 feet in the air!

[mnhtnbb]

21. Yay!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

22. The spring photo contest is a challenge for me.

We only have two seasons in California.

Torrential Rains and Summer!!!!

LOL!!!!

[HAB911]

23. same here!

just the way I like it

[mnhtnbb]

24. One of the reasons I moved from California in 1988

was that I missed living in a place that had four seasons! There are days here, though, when I wouldn't mind trading the humidity of summer for the coastal May gray and June gloom of early summer beach fog in California.

[mnhtnbb]

25. We're up to 18 fabulous entries!

Let's have some more!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

26. Kick, kick, kick!

[mnhtnbb]

27. The contest has been opened for second submissions.

Room for 11 more entries at this point. Let's fill it up!

[mnhtnbb]

28. Yay! We have 30 entries! Prelims will post tomorrow.

[Duncan Grant]

29. Grateful to all who participated.

The high contrast in “Maui Blue” and “Buttonbush” are stunners. “Pollen…the good kind” was another — the individual pollen grains and composition, wow. “From the cold dark ground…” says spring to me (lots of personal memories associated with daffodils, jonquils, narcissus, etc.).