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October 19, 2021

Preliminary Voting Threads for October Contest are now up in GD.

Hi Loves

The voting threads are up:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215963592

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215963594

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215963595

I have mixed up the threads to ensure that no-one has two pictures competing on any thread. If I got it mixed up anywhere let me know please asap and I will amend it!

You know what I am going to say next....

GO VOTE and KEEP THOSE THREADS KICKED!!!!

Good luck everyone...

October 19, 2021

October Photography Contest Preliminary Round Now Open for VOTING! Thread THREE

Hello my fine fellow DUers.

This is the official voting thread three for the October Photography Contest. The theme has been decided by the marvellous HAB911 who won the August contest.

The theme this month is:

"Roadscapes, rural or urban, old or new".


Please pop along also to threads two and three that can be found at the following links to vote there too:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215963592

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215963594

Also, of course, feel free to express your admiration in the comments to praise some of the wonders you will witness here today!!

Posted in GD per permission and custom.

THIS POLL IS OPEN FOR 72 HOURS FROM POSTING

And now without further ado ladies, gentlemen and others I present to you some splendid pictures, for your votes, delectation and delight!

End of the Road


Yellowhead Highway


The Road to Summer


Rooftop Reds and Grays


Shady Lane.


Rainy Street in Havana, Cuba


On the Left Bank


Fall Road


Rural Washington


The road well travelled

October 19, 2021

October Photography Contest Preliminary Round Now Open for VOTING! Thread TWO

Hello my fine fellow DUers.

This is the official voting thread two for the October Photography Contest. The theme has been decided by the marvellous HAB911 who won the August contest.

The theme this month is:

"Roadscapes, rural or urban, old or new".


Please pop along also to threads two and three that can be found at the following links to vote there too:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215963592

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215963595

Also, of course, feel free to express your admiration in the comments to praise some of the wonders you will witness here today!!

Posted in GD per permission and custom.

THIS POLL IS OPEN FOR 72 HOURS FROM POSTING

And now without further ado ladies, gentlemen and others I present to you some splendid pictures, for your votes, delectation and delight!

Heading through Big Apple.


Never Forget Where Bigotry Can Lead


Takin' it to the streets


The Way It Used To Be


Columbia Plateau Spring Vista


What Lies Around the Bend?


Fall in the cemetery


Closed for the season


The Mississippi Floods East Cape, Illinois


Any which way in London....

October 19, 2021

October Photography Contest Preliminary Round Now Open for VOTING! Thread ONE

Hello my fine fellow DUers.

This is the official voting thread one for the October Photography Contest. The theme has been decided by the marvellous HAB911 who won the August contest.

The theme this month is:

"Roadscapes, rural or urban, old or new".


Please pop along also to threads two and three that can be found at the following links to vote there too:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215963594

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215963595


Also, of course, feel free to express your admiration in the comments to praise some of the wonders you will witness here today!!

Posted in GD per permission and custom.

THIS POLL IS OPEN FOR 72 HOURS FROM POSTING

And now without further ado ladies, gentlemen and others I present to you some splendid pictures, for your votes, delectation and delight!

The street with a river


Headed downtown


I Bless the Rain Down in Africa


The road less traveled...


Street Nightlife--Ibiza


Only at Low Tide, St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, UK


The Long And Wavy Road


Florence Italy City Travel Roads


Magic Hour


Mystic Road


October 18, 2021

WE HAVE 30!!! COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. Huzzah!

Peg could you please lock
We are at 31 but I was being greedy as the host to post a 2nd so we shall disregard that one.

Will post the prelims after work tomorrow.

October 18, 2021

ONE SPOT LEFT

Who is going to have it?

October 18, 2021

The October Competition is now open for a second submission

Hi All

We are at twenty shots with less than two days to go.

Please feel free to pop along and post a second entry.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103692597

Any over the 30 max will not count so if you want to submit one I would get in there as soon as....

Thanks loves

Soph x

October 18, 2021

...Is the mechanism going to be named "fascism"?



Their utter contempt for democracy is so bloody dangerous. How did these far right democracy stealers end up with the keys of power.
October 17, 2021

Empires always fall in the end...



Ask Britain right now... the only difference is the Christianity element. Oh wait. Soph peers across the pond.
We are all doomed. Doomed I say.

October 17, 2021

RT to confuse an American.



A roundabout to end all roundabouts!

Are you confused?!?!?!

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About Soph0571

I am a Brit. I am a working class child of the troubles in Belfast who now lives a life of privilege. I am an anti-racist, progressive monster for truth. If I fail in being that monster, call me out....
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