The Photo of the Month competition for October 2010 is now open. The winning photo, decided by a vote, will be featured on the front page of the SABRE website and (in edited form) in the banner at the top of every webpage.

Your nomination must be entirely your own work, i.e. you must have photographed it yourself, and carried out any subsequent edits. Also, no more than one entry per person, please.

If you think another SABRE member's photograph deserves to be included, you could consider sending him/her a message of encouragement to enter the competition.

Photos taken by anyone outside SABRE are not allowed in the competition - but instead, feel free to post links to your favourite photos in the forums, for everyone's enjoyment.

To enter a photo, please upload it using this form, making sure that the "Photo of the Month October 2010" category remains ticked in the lower part of the form (under "Other", in the right-hand column).

After uploading, please check that your photo appears in the Photo of the Month October 2010 gallery, and please ask for help if you have any problems.

If you wish to nominate one of your photos that already exists in the Wiki, and you are not sure how to add it to the current Photo of the Month nominations, please ask for help in this thread. State which photo you want to nominate, and I will add it to the nominations gallery.

Submissions will close on Wednesday 22 September, around 7:30pm.

Good luck!

Why thank you John! Beer owed

For the upload? No problem.


Such a shame I don't get to judge these competitions as well!

I uploaded an aerial photo of Junction 8 of the M20 for but despite my best efforts it has not ended up in the nominations gallery, but is only in the M20 & A20 galleries instead.

Help please!!

Thanks,
Tony

Now fixed, Tony.

I thought I recognised that picture, Tony! It won a PoTM last year - I wonder if it can become the first picture to win two PoTMs??

So that's where I'd seen it before- it looked dead familiar!

It is a good picture though. The close spacing of the lane markings means a high magnification was used and the lack of blur is even more impression given the picture was taken from a moving object such as a balloon.

I thought that shot looked familiar myself but I do really like it, whether or not I'll vote for it is a different matter but I prefer not to tell people what I vote for.

It also reminds me that I have a photo of M90 Junction 11 from above that I could use in one of these competitions if I remember that I've got it by the time next month comes around.

We seem to have had a fair few Scottish photos win just lately, so I've gone for something completely different, from the Great Dorset Steam Fair. Doubtless it'll get no votes, but never mind!

I expected virtually all nominations this month to be from the recent Highland Roadtrip. I was obviously mistaken.

Thanks, John

Did it?? Do you know I had completely forgotten that. See how it does this time.

Thanks everybody for the compliments. I really like the picture because there is something going on in every part of it - from the guys in hi-vis working near the High Speed line, to the road works signs, to the cars negotiating various parts of the junction. Every time I look at at I see something new.
The camera is a Panasonic DMC-FZ7 with a Leica lens and has a very good 12x optical zoom; it has also produced some stunning shots of animals taken at local wildlife parks.

Tony

I cut out a frame from a music video which shows the Westway with original signage and lighting, but unfortunately the new rule renders them unuploadable.

Of course, if you didn't mention that no one would have known

Is it likely I would have taken that photograph? Given my age?

That would be a blatant copyright breach anyway. Just your uploading it to the Wiki could get us into a legal dispute with the copyright owner.

Mine's from it, but not from the Highlands bit.

Mine is from a Highlands road trip of sorts but then I don't have any photos taken outside of Scotland...

While I obviously have no personal objection to Tony's excellent photo (I believe I voted for it when it won), I do have to ask is there not a barrier preventing previous winners from winning again?