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Will insert recent winner's name dominance continue? Time for entries to be submitted for Photo of the Month for May 2013. 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. You could possibly also reference this accolade in an attempt to pick up women, but it should be stressed that this play has yet to have been pulled off (so to speak).

Here are the rules:

• no more than two photos per user
• photos must be taken within the ACT or Queanbeyan or else be of a former ACT/Queanbeyan bus
• photos must not have been previously submitted for POTM
• the bus must be the main subject of the photograph
• 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)
• photograph must be user's own work or submitted with permission of the photographer

Refer here (http://actbus.net/?p=263) 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 Tuesday 23 April, Australian Eastern Standard Time.

A minimum of 6 photos are required for voting to take place. Should there not be 6 photos by close of nominations, non-winning photos from previous months will be added to the nominations - photos will be selected by myself and/or ACTbusspotter.

Lets start with...
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Bus 491 at the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Extravaganza Day last Sunday.

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Then who can forget Bus 498 at the same event.

Here are my two for this month :)

Both blasts from the past as both vehicles aren't in revenue service today.

The first shot being Ex ACTION (661). It is seen operating for Oliveri's Metro-Link in Sydney as (35) m/o7667 as it leaves Liverpool Station.

The second shot being Ex ACTION (628). It is also seen with another private operator in Sydney, Interline and was (9) m/o7092.

Cheers
AOQ951  8)

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And this month's bonus photos are:

709 on Marcus Clarke St by Metrobus Mayor McCheese Mayor McBaggage, originally submitted for December 2011.

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And 808 on Madigan St by 743, originally submitted for February 2012.

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Voting now open.