What Are Your Ideas for a Photo Contest Theme?

[matthyaouw]

I struggle sometimes to think up good themes for the contest that we haven't already had. If anyone has an idea for a contest theme they'd like to see, please put it forward here.

We have already had:
-Your City/Neighborhood
-Food
-Things that go bump in the night
-I love a man/woman in uniform
-You animal!
-Gone but not forgotten
-Take me home, country road
-Fire in the sky
-When you wish upon a star
-Summer Loven'
-What's new pussycat?
-A is for August
-You're so cold, you're so cold!
-Bridge over troubled water
-I'm ready for my closeup
-Labor of love
-Planes, trains and automobiles
-Falling for autumn
-Water, water everywhere
-Bad picture
-Tranquil
-Icons
-Halloween
-Pretty in pink
-Lighthouse
-Happy Thanksgiving
-She blinded me with science
-Old mcdonald had a farm
-o' christmas tree
-Happy holidays
-We built this city
-Happy new years
-Let it snow
-Now that's funny
-Stright and narrow
-Cry me a river
-Turning over a new leaf
-Will you be my valentine?
-Happy chinese new year
-It's all there in black and white
-Aint no mountain high enough
-Sunrise/sunset
-Green with envy
-People who need people
-April fool
-Aint no valley low enough
-rubber eraser
-Nightlight
-toy pictures r' us
-Life is a cabaret
-Mother's day
-Heavy metals
-Me and my shadow
-Rock the boat
-Bad picture 2
-Silhouette
-Food and wine
-top pf the world
-vacation
-happy happy happy, joy joy joy
-I need some zzzz's
-Statuesque
-This is halloween
-Orange
-Six feet under
-Eat and be merry
-Animal instinct
-Are you for real?
-Walking in the winter wonderland
-Holiday lights
-Beginning to look a lot like christmas
-Tropical paradise
-Dancing with the stars
-Moment of reflection
-Don't go chasing waterfalls
-My funny valentine
-Still life
-Water works
-Dog day afternoon
-Green acres
-black and white
-Sign language
-Culture club
-things are looking up
-sight for sore eyes
-take me out to a ball game
-sick as a dog
-two year anniversary
-I kid you not
-june is bustin out all over
-Path of least resistance
-Lets go shopping
-peace and tranquility
-I love fireworks
-fun in the sun
-what is that?
-In a fowl mood
-cloud 9
-Bad picture 3
-humpty dumpty
-from dusk to dawn
-numerology
-with this ring, i thee wed
-singing in the rain
-tree of life
-going round in circles
-seeing red
-life is a stage
-well beaten path
-are we having fun yet?
-this is halloween
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-smile
-autumn/fall
-brought to you by the number 3
-stand back, I'm going to try science!
-Making music
-self-portrait
-It's almost christmas
-New year, new photo
-wide-open space
-churches and the like
-I'm on fire!
-something old, something new
-china
-valentines
-creepy-crawlies
-beaches
-abandonment

ZapperZ retired where I marked the star. How he kept thinking up good themes that long is beyond me.

Anyhow- let's hear your ideas

 

[misgfool]

Why don't you try the BHRSVWMCHSMGF?

Birth
Healing
Recovery
Strength
Vitality
Wisdom
Maturity
Continuity
Hunting
Stalking
Moments before the kill
Great escape
Future

 

[Borek]

Screw it

 

[larkspur]

It's hip to be square!
Fungus Among Us
Haunted or Hunted
Hands and Feet
Smooth as Glass

 

[hypatia]

Things we want
Hard as a rock
Party time
A card played
Footprints in time

 

[Andre]

Back light
art is tic?
what's in a name?
whodunnit?
Up up and away
flower power

 

[ZapperZ]

ZapperZ retired where I marked the star. How he kept thinking up good themes that long is beyond me.

Anyhow- let's hear your ideas

I actually have more that I haven't used. You are welcome to them. :)

1. Electric Company
2. Angel Eyes
3. Pencil Pusher
4. Last Man Standing
5. Boogie Nights
6. Well Aged
7. Heads Up
8. Duck, Duck, Goose
9. Relight My Fire
10. Get Boxed In
11. A Day at the Races
12. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
13. Ship To Shore
14. Tackle Box
15. Magic Fingers
16. Green, Green Grass of Home
17. Prime Location
18. Back To School
19. It's Off to Work We Go (Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho)
20. Hole in the Wall
21. Obstacle Course
22. Lend Me Your Ears
24. 24
25. Able To Leap Tall Buildings
26. Let's Eat!
27. Intense Competition
28. Young At Heart
29. History Repeating
30. Afternoon Delight
31. Sharp, Pointed Objects
32. Shipping and Handling
33. Fizzy Drinks
34. Numerical Recipes
35. Classical Dynamics
36. Did You Lock The Door?
37. Give Me Shelter
38. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
39. Clutter
40. Book 'Em, Daniel.

I'm guessing that most of the theme are self-evident, but I can elaborate what the themes mean (assuming that I remember what I intended when I wrote them down a while back).

Zz.

 

[waht]

Shackleton, Cook, Columbus

Recoil

Stroke of genius

Galileo's free fall

Secret cache

A place of our legacy

2.718

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Perhaps everyone would prefer the break from work/study, but I think this being a physics etc. forum, that there is better knowledge of such things here for interpretation, whether literally or metaphorically, on topics that someone other than me would be better at naming, but along the lines of -
light, gravity, entropy, energy, chemicals, atmosphere, numbers, equations... these sorts of things.

 

[Averagesupernova]

Something bad about to happen. (A pic of something that seems like it will inevitably lead to some sort of muck up in the very near future)

 

[turbo]

There is a wealth of good material in phrases from song titles, cliches, poems etc. Ex:

A stitch in time
Troubled waters
For want of a nail
Nevermore
I left my heart
Sour grapes

 

[Chi Meson]

Children
Children with siblings
children with pets
children with their parents
children with trees in the background
children standing on stone walls
kids
kids holding guinea pigs
kids grabbing the dog's tail
kids hiding in cardboard boxes
birthday parties

That's all I've got these days!

 

[turbo]

Children
Children with siblings
children with pets
children with their parents
children with trees in the background
children standing on stone walls
kids
kids holding guinea pigs
kids grabbing the dog's tail
kids hiding in cardboard boxes
birthday parties

That's all I've got these days!

I've recently gotten a wealth of baby watching mallards eat pix!

 

[Chi Meson]

Seriously now:

Photos of photos
races (as in competitions)
juxtapositions
extreme close ups (I think that's been done?)
lightbulbs
ancient ruins
dilapidation (modern houses, buildings falling apart)
rust belt factories
stone walls
tree bark (I'm serious)
wicker (not serious)
old shoes (old boots, running shoes)

 

[gravenewworld]

Things that begin with the letter X

 

[Redbelly98]

There is a wealth of good material in phrases from song titles, cliches, poems etc.

Hmmm, like:

If I Had A Hammer
Blowin' In The Wind
Running On Empty / Born To Run
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
On The Waterfront

 

[matthyaouw]

Thanks guys. This should keep me going a while