Why all of a sudden are we talking about polls and considering making changes to the photo contest thread? Whats wrong with the way it is? Pick a theme and those that want to participate find their best location, take the pic, post it, do the vote and someone wins. Finding the perfect spot and taking the pics is what makes this fun. This is great and gets people out to take pics that are truly taken for the contest. The part of the current contest that I don't like is rule #4, even the way its written doesn't make sense, how are you getting more people out to take pics when they can just sit on the couch and pick one that's up to 6 months old.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about the current "open theme", but it probably is more popular because no props are needed and I wonder how many people are using rule #4? I think the voting on so many pics will prove to be interesting.
If we're not having any themes anymore we might as well just close this thread and submit random pictures in "Post a pic of your GMT right now" and do a monthly vote on the best pics submitted there.
The only change I'd like to see is get rid of rule #4.