FEB Photo of the Month CONTEST

[boneaddict]

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Hunting/Washington.com
PHOTO OF THE MONTH CONTEST  FEBRUARY 2008
Please enter your favorite photo into our photo of the month contest.

NEW TOPIC THIS MONTH 
  THIS MONTH    PREDATOR HUNTING    (any calling, trapping etc. goes)  Cougars, bobcats, coons, fox and coyotes. ) Pretty much everything but bear.  Pics of live critters, hounds, trapping anything regarding winter/spring predator hunting.

The photo must have been taken by the entrant, but there is NO time limit set to how long ago the picture was taken. If the category happens to include field photos, they can be taken by someone else as long as it is of the entrant themselves.)- The photo must pertain to hunting or fishing or the outdoors in some fashion and it must match with the current months theme.
-Photo size MUST be 800x600 pixels or LESS  Most violated rule
-2 entries per contestant are allowed per month. If more than 2 entries are submitted the first two elegible ones will be the ones accepted for the contest.
-Entries must be submitted by midnite of the 26th of the current month in order to qualify for that Months contest.
-Photos of Washington material will receive preference in judging as the winner will be posted on the front of a Washington site. 
-Previous Photo of the month entries will not be eligible for this months contest
-The winner of the previous months contest is not eligible for the next months contest.
-Entries will be accepted or rejected as is, meaning the judges will no longer enhance, or alter images. Resizing is legal if you can talk a moderator into doing it for you.
The photos will be evaluated by a panel of Judges made up of  all the moderators.  The winner (NO TIES) will be announced as soon as we come to a majority decision. 

The Winner will have their photo posted on the front page

 
   

New Ideas for the contest:
We are going to start having themes for some of our Photo of the month Contests.  These are not in concrete, but as outlined for now.  Get out there and get those PICS.
January....photo of the year contest/open
February....Winter Predator hunting
March....
April.....Shed antlers
May.....Fishing
June......Turkeys
July....Landscapes, spring flowers summer hiking trips etc.(wildlife or scenery can be included)
August.......Velvet bucks or bulls
September ...bowhunting/Archery
October....open
November.... Field photos
December.... Winter scenes (wildlife and scenery acceptable...anything winter)

[boneaddict]

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[Skyvalhunter]

Awesome pic Bone. I have to knoe did this dog go down?

[boneaddict]

Thanks Sky, Nope he walked

[telof latzi]

Nice pic.  Talk about setting the bar high.  I was thinking about posting a picture, but now...

[boneaddict]

THANKS!   I'm not in the contest, thats just for fun.

[mossback91]

Cool picture bone

[cameraguy]

Here's a picture of a coyote on one of our trips to the Malhuer.  He was laying in the snow on the banks of the Blitzen River.

[cohoho]

Just a sitting dog pic...

[hambone]

snowy yote

[cougkilr]

Pretty Kitty

[509er]

story?

[mulehunter]

  

Mulehunter

[cougkilr]

My brother and I were deer hunting on the west side the third weekend of the 2006 season.  My brother had shot a small buck that morning so we decided to head up high, about 5,000 elevation to look for a big blacktail.  We stopped and got out of the pickup to glass a large hill side that often carries deer. While glassing something caught the corner of my eye.  I figured it was a deer up hill from where we were parked so I ran around the truck and then realized that it was two cougars walking across some rocks on the top of the ridge.  I told my brother that there were two cougars and he said yeah right, until he looked up and saw them.  His gun was in the back seat of the pickup because he had already shot his deer, so I had the only shot. I rested on the door of the truck and took aim, and then herd a voice say, "your scope cover is on", I guess the excitement of a cat made me forget to click the scope off.  The front cat stopped on a rock ledge, broadside as if she was posing for me, they didn't even know we were there.  One shot in the back of her neck and she flopped off of the cliff and kicked a couple times behind a stump and that was it.  The other one was gone and over the ridge so fast even if my brother had his gun out he probably wouldn't have gotten off a shot.  I shot her at 176 yards at about a 90% slope.  It was a pretty good day of hunting, my little brother shot his first deer and I shot my first cat.

[MuleySniper]

Here are my two!
MS