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Thursday’s Special: Forbidding
After last week’s great response from my blogger friends that manifested in a large number of excellent entries this week’s theme comes in a different spirit.
You are well aware that we live in the world that is getting less and less welcoming with wars, terrorism, masses of refugees trying to reinvent their lives somewhere else and that we must work harder than ever to make our living (well, most of us) and that we feel less secure with each coming day. All this has caused me to come up with the today’s theme “forbidding”.
Whether you are going to post photos of unwelcoming spaces, frightening things, and dreadful scenes or look for a menacing sky or just edit your photos to give them a grim appearance it is up to your creativity and imagination. Wish you all a Thursday of peace!
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Wow, Paula, that place is forbidding. It might not even be that bad if they would cut back all those trees. It’s so forlorn! Perfect for your challenge! 🙂
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Yes, forlorn. Thanks for your visit dear Linda. Happy Thursday!
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A forbidding place indeed.
Peace to you too.
Bz
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Obrigada, B. Bom dia.
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🙂
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Your photo speaks of neglect and decay, it’s absolutely perfect for the theme. What an interesting challenge.
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Thanks a lot Miriam. I’d better have a good representative as long as I am challenging people ;). I hope you are having a good day.
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Thank you Paula, I am. Nearly dinner time here now.
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You’ll be entering April sooner than us here and it will be real Autumn for you. Lucky you 🙂 Enjoy your dinner and rest well. Will come over your place later after work…
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Yes, the colors are already coming out. A lovely dinner is over, candles have been extinguished, come over for a coffee Paula … 🙂
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I’ll take a rain check 😉
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Have a great Thursday Paula, I’m heading to the slavery now, but Friday is just around the corner!
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So am I… It’s a beautiful day here, but no time for taking photos. Takk Max.
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No time for taking photos here either unfortunately…
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Creepy place, well shot! Greetz, Ron
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Greetz to you my friend 😀
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Sad times we live in, Paula. Coincidentally, I was already out on a walk yesterday morning, feeling a bit jaded and forlorn after a lovely weekend with Lisa, when I took these shots. With more time I might play around and edit them, but I think they fit the theme quite well. Sending hugs! 🙂
http://restlessjo.me/2016/03/31/forbidding-skies/
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I’ve beaten you to it ;). I am glad you replied already and positively to my question :D. The captures are beautiful. I love dramatic skies and you know that. The second one will be in my gallery. xo
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Thanks, sweetheart! It wasn’t at all planned. A funny old life sometimes, isn’t it? Did you have a peaceful Easter, as planned? 🙂
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It was peaceful and quiet as I intended and needed 🙂 Thank you, Jo.
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So true , Paula!
As always , you incredibly centered the theme …..
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Thank you for your words, Anna. They mean a lot.
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That looks like a place where you can hide for everyone and where no one will bother you at all. Stunning shot Paula. 😀
How are you doing sweetness? ♥
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Hello honey bee :D. I am back to work after a long Easter weekend and working on my job and some volunteer work (assisting in someone’s healing). That will be good for my karma. Apart from that am trying to ignore hay fever which is not too bad yet, having a few teeth crowned today, and still recovering slowly from my bad knee. That’s all 😀
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Hey sweetness! Keeping busy I see and that is good, especially where the healing is concerned. We all need it in our lives. You are such a special soul. 😀
Oi! Hay fever sucks indeed and I am glad it’s not too bad yet and my wishes are that it will just go away and never bother you again. 😀
Sounds like you’ll be smiling broadly again. At least we still have teeth that can be crowned hey? Sorry to hear that the knee is not doing so well. Sending you lots of ♥ Hugs and Kisses ♥ so it can recover all the way. ❤
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❤ ❤ ❤ Thank you, Sophia 🙂 xo
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You also inspired me today, so thank you very much for that sweetness. 😀 ♥
https://sonelsworld.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/thursdays-special-forbidding/
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Your litany of threats reminds me how lucky I really am when I feel like sulking about my lot! The engulfment of the building is a wonderful visual metaphor.
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Thank you dear Meg. People tend to complain and sulk a lot. It’s in our nature, thought it would do us more good to change it. But I never saw you as the sulking one 😉
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My granddaughter is a superb sulker. Her protruding bottom lip reaches to Croatia if she’s facing in the right direction. I’m feeling a bit displaced here, but the thought of refugees is enough to tame self-indulgence.
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But she is just a baby.
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Oh now she’s not! She’s an older soul than me!!
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🙂 I know the type 😀
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Your cottage reminds me of fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel. Forbidding indeed but in reality there is probably a warm cosy fire in the living room and aromas of fresh baked bread wafting around. Mine this week http://irenewaters19.com/2016/03/31/muffin-is-back-weekly-smile/
By the way – I thought the music was quite forbidding this week. For some reason forbidden drumming came to mind and I was planning on going down that track (had the photos for it) but when I heard the tune I couldn’t stand it so the angle changed. Thanks for such a great prompt and for a Thursday of Peace.
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Sorry I gave you the wrong address Here is the correct one. http://irenewaters19.com/2016/03/31/forbidden-thursdays-special/
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I don’t know what I am doing this week. Sent it from the wrong person as well.
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😀 It’s ok, you made me walk about some more, and I need to walk 😀
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Thank you for the entry, Irene. I found it very comprehensive and right to the point. You are right about the music here. It can’t be more forbidding than this, and intentionally so.
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A perfect photo for the theme Paula! Wonderful!
Here’s mine:
https://thepisceanme.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/thursdays-special-forbidding/
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A very intriguing scene Srivi and very well captured and editted. I wonder where it was shot. Thank you very much for joining in.
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Thanks Paula 🙂
This was shot in Rajasthan, India.
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I was looking for a chance to post this sign: https://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/forbidding/
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This has made me laugh, Traudel. Thank you for the entry.
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Great challenge, Paula. And I like your Illustration of it!
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Thank you kindly, Tobias. It would be very interesting to see your interpretation. Are you considering taking part in this challenge?
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Actually, I always consider participating, Paula. But time is often a problem if I do not find something worth sharing in the archives. For this challenge, there might be something in film but it’s not yet scanned (I only remembered those pictures yesterday). I’ll do what I can… Cheers!
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It would be an honour to have you aboard. 🙂
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ha, I sneak-peeked some time ago and was sure the subject was ‘forbidden’. prepared a photo and what a surprise this morning. spot on, must I say. upravo se ovako osjecam:
http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2016/03/in-gutter.html
😉
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Excellent shot, Klara. I wonder what else you saw down there.
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Definitely a forbidding or at least sad scene. Amazing what a difference a change in seasons might bring.
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You are absolutely right, Sue. Now with blooms on these same trees the house looks less spooky and just overgrown. Going out to same spots over and over again reveals a lot. Thank you for your considerate and perceptive eye 🙂
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Here’s my forbidding, Paula. Hugs 🙂
http://tishfarrell.com/2016/03/31/the-old-quarry-thursdays-special/
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Another gem from you Tish. Your sliced geology-scapes always intrigue me.
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Your photo is for certain forbidding- do not cross over those hedges! Love the topic- will see what I can come up with 🙂
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somehow these gray skies struck me as forbidding, more so than anything else https://dailymusing57.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/thursdays-special-forbidding/
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Suitably spooky music to accompany your very forbidding image, Paula. 🙂 xx
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Thank you, precious. I am very pleasantly surprised with your light-hearted take on forbidding :D.
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Thanks so much, Paula. Glad you enjoyed it. ❤
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Somehow I missed this post coming out – got buried in a busy day’s mass of emails. This made a fun editing challenge, so here is my contribution at last: https://travelwithintent.com/2016/04/01/istanbul-forbidding-sky/
Happy weekend Paula
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The house sure looks grim with all those plants wrapped around it…
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Well…it does look very forbidding to me! 🙂
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A very creepy-looking house, Paula. My Forbidding place is Cape Horn:
https://jaspasjourney.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/dawn-at-cape-horn/
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It took a bit of an effort because I had some ideas but the pictures would not work they way I’d want them to (mostly, I was not satisfied with the compositions which struck me as boring). So I had to take another shot at it. Am I still in time?
Have a great Sunday!
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Thank you very much, Tobias. Have a great week!
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I’ve just posted my Forbidding…..
Hope you like it!
http://unavistadisanfermo.wordpress.com
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…..And I’ve just realized that my previous comment hasn’t appeared , yet…
So, I’ll post this one to tell you how much I love your post!
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You are a sweetheart Anna. Thank you. I’m having a hell of a weekend and have only stopped shortly now (I had to finish some urgent unpaid work). It has ruined the whole weekend.
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I know you’re troubled, dear Paula….
I didn’t mention , but I red your comments about that!
Mi dispiace molto!!
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Grazie, Anna. Posso solo avere fiducia che tutto sara migliore pronto (sorry for mistakes… don’t have time to make a check) xx
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I can imagine!
But everything’s all right.
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Not with the right wing ruling the country 😉
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What a spooky photo you have found for this theme Paula. Quite a challenge and I searched and searched to find something, almost gave up!!! But I had a light bulb moment last night, so I am taking you back 4 years for these photos. Hope you are feeling so much relaxed by now and your horrendous weekend is behind you. https://memoriesaremadeofthisblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/thursdays-special-forbidding/
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I played around with a photo to make it forbidden, hope it works for your theme. 🙂
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Your shot makes you wonder…what is under all of that! Here is my own creepy discovery https://michellelunatophotography.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/forbidding-creepy-old-neighbor/
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Thank you, Michelle.
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