Photo of the Month - September 2013

[Barry Drive]

Nominations for Photo of the Month September 2013 are now open. In addition to being shown on the actbus.net front page for a month (and added to the POTM archive), the winning photo will also be loaded to ACT Bus on Facebook and, if suitable, will be used as the cover photo for the ACT Bus Facebook page (subject to cropping). The winner and runner-up(s) will also be included in the Photo of the Year vote.

Here are the rules:

• no more than two photo submissions per user
• photos must not have been previously submitted for POTM
• photo must be user's own work or submitted with permission of the photographer

The photographs must feature:

• a bus stop within ACT / Queanbeyan region (location must be specified, bus stop and associated furniture must feature prominently in photo)

and/or

• a bus from the ACT or Queanbeyan (taken within the region or a former ACT/Queanbeyan bus) where -
  
  • the bus must be the main subject of the photograph (or feature prominently)
  • the bus must be in focus
  • the fleet or registration number of the bus must be identifiable (or supplied by photographer if not visible in photograph)

Refer here for full ACT Bus photo submission conditions.

To ensure consistency, photos must be displayed with a width of 640 (or height if 640 if a "portrait" aspect). Photos narrower than 640 pixels will not be accepted; photos wider than 640 MUST use the option width=640 in the image tag - as follows "[img width=640]".

Submissions close midnight 25 August, Australian Eastern Standard Time.

A minimum of 4 photos must be submitted for voting to commence. Nominations may be extended if four have not been submitted, but at the end of the extended period if there are still fewer than 4 photos no vote will take place, all nominations will roll over to October and a runner-up photo from last year will instead be used as the Facebook and Website photo of the month.

[Bus 400]

I'll kick things off with Bus 350 resting at Woden Bus Station:


Then Bus 350 lost out at Lanyon Marketplace Terminus:

[Barry Drive]

Here are my two contributions:

Bus stop on Officer Cres, Ainslie - one of the last few remaining hand painted SIGNAL BUS pegs.


Officer Cres Ainslie by ACT Bus spotter, on Flickr

Close-up view of bus stop can be found on the ACT Bus Gallery

Bus 508 parked on Northbourne Ave.

[Buzz Killington]

So that's why he added 'bus stops are okay now!' to the rules!

[Sir Pompously]

My entry for the month :-)


BUS-506 is seen on a Route 10 service operating through Brindabella Business Park on Brindabella Cct.

[Barry Drive]

Voting is now open.