****2016 Summer Photo Contest - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!! ***

That's a serious summertime "SCHWING" watch. 😎

Actually, it's a serious "SCHWING" watch no matter what the season. 😁

Very nice! 👍

I count 91 submissions...I guess we're the ones that should wish you good luck 😎

You know I had a feeling @Darlinboy.....your collection felt like that of an "East sider". 😉

And also explains why the whole area has been picked clean!

Fun contest, and Happy Father's Day to all Dads.

Any body from around Lake Erie remember "Blue Pike." It was so popular that they were completely fished out. Way better than Perch or Walleye.

This is a great process. Next step is.to pick mine and toss all the others aside. It's an easy step that will allow you to enjoy the weekend and fathers day without other disruptive tasks that may taint forever your family time.

That deep fried perch sounds fantastic... Not sure it would help with the 60lbs I'm working to lose. 😉

They fished them out back around 1960 or so. They think it was a variation of a Walleye. Every little restaurant in Cleveland offered the Blue pike Special on Fridays.

While we wait, I'd like to take the time to tell a photo contest story.

Some 10 years ago, a large Dutch computer manufacturer organized a contest: the only criterion was that the photo showed a computer. That summer, I was in the happy circumstance of living in a house that had a pool, which gave me an idea: an underwater picture. I prepared the shoot meticulously.

Because I didn't have a waterproof housing for my camera, I bought one of those disposable underwater cameras that I had used previously with some success for underwater photos of weird-looking fish while snorkelling in the Caribbean. It would have to do. In any case, the pool lights provided an decent light source, and the water was of course perfectly clear.

I proceeded to construct an underwater office, complete with a submerged desk, chair, and pot plant on the bottom of the pool. I weighed down a busted old computer and put it on the desk. I also invited two friends to model. The guy wore a business suit over his diving weight belt, positioned himself on the chair (no mean feat) and, fully submerged, started hammering away at the keys of the underwater keyboard dramatically. The girl wore a nice black dress and floated by, like a dark siren, to mock-water the plant with a watering-can.

It was one of the coolest sights I've ever seen.

I immediately had the pictures developed at a one-hour photo service. When they came back, all of them - bar none - were completely black. Something (to this day, I still don't know what) had clearly gone wrong and the photo shop could not fix it. I went home disappointed. Out of frustration, I picked up the soaked laptop (that we had used as a backup for the underwater desktop, in case we couldn't keep the CRT monitor down) and angrily threw it out onto the lawn. The family dog - a boxer that I have fond memories of - immediately pounced it and started chewing on the screen. I took a quick snapshot of the scene using my regular camera, just so that I'd have something to show for my trouble, and submitted it to the contest.

It won.

My picture of the dog chewing on the laptop took first prize. It was featured in the store's brochures, and I took home a flatscreen TV. I never entered a photo contest since.