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Thursday’s Special: Imperfection
The theme of this week’s Thursday’s Special is “imperfection”. I chose a macro photo of my colour pencils, but imperfection can be interpreted in a number of ways. We do live in an imperfect world and it shouldn’t be too difficult to come up with something to fit the theme. When I started this challenge in August 2013 I conceived it as a non-challenge event where you would challenge yourselves and I wasn’t going to impose any themes on you. However, time has shown that most bloggers prefer to be challenged by others and to be given a theme. This has made me revise the concept of my TS event and therefore I will provide a list of themes well in advance, which you can find on the menu, on a separate page “Scheduled Challenges”. There you can see the scheduled posts for a month or two in advance as well as the names of participating guest bloggers. I am still interested in your collaboration as I am looking for a guest blogger for a B&W challenge in March, both TS and B&W challenges in April and further on. Feel free to leave me your suggestions in the comments section or just send me an email. For those bloggers that do not feel like following the set theme, you are always welcome to submit an entry of your own choice. That’s all from me. Wishing you all a nice Thursday!
Check out these entries:
Kathryn’s Find
CG’s Fish Head
PJ’s Against the Sun
Debbie’s Teddies
Colline’s Class Project – Completed
Sylvia’s Lighthouse Painting!
Patricia’s Imperfection
Madhu’s alerted zebras
Lost in Translation 
I wasn’t sure if they were pencils or fondants but they all look so sweet together!
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🙂 Many people thought fondants :D. I find it very amusing. Thanks so much Patti!
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Very nice image. 😀
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Cheers PJ 🙂
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I love the deft touch of whimsy in your sense of art.
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😆 it makes me feel good to hear it, Charlie. Much obliged.
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Nice capture of your pencils! I must say that recording is a bit different!
LOL!
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Different, but catchy! Ain’t it catchy???? 😀
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Um, shur! I’m just not sure what it caught… Bwahahahaa 😆 Okay, maybe a little!
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😀 it’s ok not to like the music.
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Love it! If you hadn’t told us those were pencils I’d never have guessed. 🙂
Very good composition Paula.
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Merci bien Brian 🙂
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Oh such a tiny imperfection. I love the shot, Paula.
I’m not following theme today as I had some bears I wanted to share: http://travelwithintent.com/2014/12/11/paddington-bears-london/
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Sorry for asking if that is an intrusion, but you are always up so late or so early. Are you taking sunrise photos, Debbie? 🙂
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I never saw pencils that shape. I bet they smell great. Are they hard to hold? I still have tiny stubs of my first set which cost SO much more than I could afford 20 years ago. I’ve got LOTS of imperfection ! Let me look …be right back Paula !
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They are not really hard to hold, but I don’t use them much. I like taking photos of them 😀
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Clearly !!!
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A very creative image, Paula. I had to smile at your choice of track. Very different. 🙂
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🙂 Thank you for listening, precious!
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http://wp.me/a2dwKf-1KF- I found this deep in the woods and dragged it home. Once it’s dry I will polish it , I absolutely love it from any angle. Much Merry to you Paula .
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It looks great from the starters Kathryn, and now I wonder what you will turn it into :O Thank you for your great entry!
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A piece of sculpture of course !!!🎄
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I love your quirkiness. No one else would ever think of pencils (masquerading as fondant indeed) as an image of imperfection. I bet what you produce with them is far from imperfect.
Imperfection for me? My dress sense I suspect. Just bought two outfits for a wedding in the tropics in April. I’ll be cool in one sense, but not in the more important one. Now I just need a floaty mauve scarf to hide my totally imperfect upper arms!
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No, no, no, no selfies are allowed for imperfection… Church says we are all made at the image of God and therefore we are perfect ;). Upper arms (a painful subject); a scarf looks elegant for any occasion.. will be waiting and looking forward to your entry Meg!
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Love your pov, Paula. 🙂
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Thank you, Lisa. Happy to hear that 🙂
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I also thought fondant – or polymer clay at first – but very cool image amiga 🙂 ❤
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Thanks a bunch, Yvette 🙂
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Do you draw? Or is it from a shop display?
Here’s my Thursday post: http://artishorseshit.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/fish-head/
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I bought them cause I like the way the look 🙂
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Not an imperfection in sight as far as I’m concerned, Paula! Just another superb rendering of life through your lens. 🙂
I love the pops of colour and the nibbled raw edges. It produced a big smile this morning. Happy Thursday to you! And Friday et al. 🙂
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Happy, happy to read you. *hugs*
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Hi Paula! Here is my entry for the “worst photo.” (LOL) I mean, “Imperfection”: http://pricelessjoy.co/2014/12/11/imperfection/
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I really like it!!! And I hope you don’t mind I’ve invented a title for your photo above in the display 😀 Thank you so much PJ!
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Thank you. How can I see the display?
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I was referring to the medium size pictures I display at the bottom of this post which includes your submission and entries from other participants 🙂
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Ok, thanks!
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and here if you want to see, there is a selection of participants’ entries from this year – will be amended/supplemented before the end of the month 😉
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the link to previous entries from 2014 https://bopaula.wordpress.com/thursdays-special-page/ts-participants-links/
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Loved all the photos!! Beautiful!
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I am so happy to hear that 🙂
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PJ, you can also see a link to their blogs bellow the photos – in case that you don’t know some of the bloggers yet 🙂
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I didn’t see anything under the pictures. I had noticed you said there was a link under each photo, but I didn’t see them.
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OK, this is a gallery of photos, when you click on the first or whatever photo in the gallery you will be able to see a link underneath it. The link needs to be copied into a new tab and it will take you to the person’s blog.
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Thank you! I will give that a try.
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Please, let me know if it worked. I have tried it again now, and it suffices to click on it – no need for you to do any copy/paste work…
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Yes, I clicked on the bottom of the photos and the link does show. Very nice! I will go in and check each one out now.
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That is very nice and dedicated of you PJ. I thank you on behalf of my followers 🙂
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The pencils are imperfections we use everyday. This week I share with you some imperfect creativity – some of which was made using pencil crayons 🙂
http://collinesblog.com/2014/12/11/a-completed-class-project/
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I’ve enjoyed your post, Colline, as well as the 1st part. It is important to keep little hands busy and entertained 🙂 Thank you for making me smile 🙂
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Glad you liked it Paula 🙂
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Here’s my entry: https://anotherday2paradise.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/lighthouse-progress-for-paulas-thursday-special/
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You have left me without words!!! I had no idea, Sylvia. Is there an end to your talents?? This is so lovely, and looks like a spot in my country that I am dreaming of visiting for my summer holidays. I will look at your linked post to see how it all started. This is wonderful. You are wonderful! 😀
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I really like this. Hope to find some imperfections in my file of pictures…
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🙂 that would be great, Lumar.
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Paula, you have managed to turn a few humble pencils into art!!! And what a fun vocal accompaniment! 🙂
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😀 imperfect and quirky 🙂 How can I thank you, Madhu!
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and this is the furthest that I can go with my pencil art (no drawing for the time being – though Sylvia says anyone can paint :O)
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I love the way that the colours take over these crayons, normally you only see the tip and the rest is wood. Great new view.
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🙂 Hello Hilary. Thank you. I meant to ask you… why is it not possible to comment on your blog http://hilarycustancegreen.com/. I look at it often. Today I was checking out your photos from Slovenia and I wondered where you had had that best cup of coffee 😀
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How very clever of you to take simple pencils and make them stand out so beautifully. I have one of many imperfect photos for you this week. http://patriciasplace.me/2014/12/11/thursdays-special-imperfection/
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I would like to have a cactus like yours Patricia. It may not get enough sun, but it still looks really good on top of that cupboard. Thank you for this entry 🙂
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Great textures in your artlike pencils, Paula! The “music” cheered me up this morning! 🙂
Ha en god helg, take care, pass godt på deg, vennen min
*KLEM*
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Happy to hear the music cheered you up, Dina. Are you in Germany now? Stor klem og god helg!
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Matite , al primo colpo d’occhio. Poi qualche dubbio , ma e’ arrivata la conferma!
Splendida interpretazione.
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Grazie Anna! Glad to see you back.
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A beautiful shot with a lovely message Paula. There is beauty in imperfection, isn’t it!
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Absolutely, perfect beauty is not beauty to me. If everything is perfect then nothing catches my eye. I have been thinking about that for many years, trying to remember faces of “perfect” totally symmetrical people – BOOOORING!!! 😀
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You picked the most vibrant colours.
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