THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: PICK A WORD – MARCH 2023

This is my photo challenge Pick a Word where I invite bloggers to match their photos with some or all of the five words that I propose here. Here comes my selection for this March:

AUTHENTIC

MISCHIEVOUS

PERSONIFIED

RAMPART

RONDURE

authentic
mischievous
personified
rampart
rondure

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Let’s have fun!

THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: PICK A WORD – FEBRUARY 2023

Hello and welcome to my challenge PAW (Pick a Word) that runs once a month on Thursdays.

You are invited to post a photo or several, interpreting one, several or all of the five words that I am enclosing below:

BATTLING

EXTANT

GLOAMING

QUIDDITY

ROTATIONAL

battling
extant
gloaming
quiddity
rotational

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Let’s have fun!

THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: PICK A WORD – JANUARY 2023

Welcoming the followers and participants in the PAW challenge (that runs one Thursday every month and is thus titled Thursday’s Special) for the first time in 2023, I am inviting you to post a photo or several interpreting one, several, or all of the five words that I am enclosing below:

CIRCULAR

IDIOSYNCRATIC

PERSPECTIVE

SEABOARD

UNDRAPED

circular (magic night in Nantes)
idiosyncratic (aka powla)
perspective (fuming volcano as a tiny hillock in the background and a small horse seemingly huge in the foreground)
seaboard (Sardinia)
undraped (lovely sculpture captured once in Bologna)

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Hope you have enjoyed this pictorial journey through my memories and emotions. Will be happy to see what inspires you this year.

WOW – WORDS OF WISDOM – Y23 #1

Hello followers and happy 2023!

The first post this year is my challenge Words of Wisdom (WoW) for which you are supposed to pair a quote of your choice (may be by someone famous, or anonymous, funny or intelligent or none of those things) with a photo that you took.

My choice for this cold month (that I, contrary to the coypu below, like) is:

I am a Florida guy. I don’t do cold.

˜ J. R. Ramirez

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WOW – WORDS OF WISDOM #6

Hello followers 🙂

Today “my” Words of Wisdom were penned by famous Miguel de Cervantes. Selecting just a few was a difficult task for me since he is one of my favourite authors. I hope you will enjoy this post and join me with your entries to this photo and quote challenge. Cheers!

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness.

To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

(or in original: “Cuando la vida misma parece loca, ¿quién sabe dónde está la locura? Quizás ser demasiado práctico es una locura. Renunciar a los sueños, esto puede ser una locura. Demasiada cordura puede ser una locura, y lo más loco de todo: ver la vida como es, y no como debería ser!” 

And the my favourite:

He who reads a lot and travels a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot. i.e. “El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho

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THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: PICK A WORD – NOVEMBER 2022

I am running on a very tigth schedule this month, so please forgive me for posting only now and not seeing your past entries yet.

Those who have been following my posts for a couple of years must have noticed that I like capturing patterns, but it is getting hard to come up with a number of synonyms for them.

Well, here it goes for this time:

ARRANGED

CODED PATTERN

ORGANISED

SEQUENTIAL

SYSTEMATISED

arranged
coded pattern
organised

systematised
sequential

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If you forgot how to post for this challenge, just pick one of the words proposed in this post, or several or all of them and illustrate them in images of your own. There are no deadlines, no winners. The only purpose is to have fun. Cheers!

P.S. Please, stay tuned for Wednesday challenge – Words of Wisdom

Image info:

#1 composition of crayons

#2 candies arranged in a Morse code message

#3 salt flats on Lanzarote

#4 grape cultivation, Lanzarote

#5 links

THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: PICK A WORD – OCTOBER 2022

This is my monthly photo challenge titled Pick a Word. You may choose any of the given words (one or all or some of them) and interpret them in images captured by you.

This month’s choices:

DRAMATIC

FICTIONAL

MIGRATING

SERENE

CARTOONED

dramatic
fictional
migrating

serene
cartooned

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THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: PICK A WORD – JUNE 2022

Hello fellow bloggers and welcome to the June edition of Pick a Word photo challenge. This is the challenge where you are supposed to pick one or more (or all) of the five given words and interpret them in photos that you took.

I hope that you will like the choices.

The words for this month are:

BOULDERY

PERCHED

SURGING

SWIRLING

VAULTED

bouldery
perched
surging
swirling

vaulted

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While you are here, you may want to check out the new challenge https://bopaula.com/2022/06/08/wow-words-of-wisdom-new-photo-words-challenge/.

WOW (WORDS OF WISDOM) – NEW PHOTO & words CHALLENGE

CHALLENGE ALERT!

I am starting a new photo challenge (in addition to the current one Pick a Word). It is about words again, words and photos. It is called Words of Wisdom and it will run one Wednesday every month (weeks will vary).

For this challenge you are supposed to write a quote either by someone famous, or your own and illustrate it in images taken by you. You can use proverbs, funny quotes, whatever you like. Any quote on any subject to be illustrated through your photos.

I hope you’ll find this fun. I know that I look forward to seeing what you will come up with.

For the first post I chose three quotes about reading.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ~ Oscar Wilde

Reading is thinking with some one else’s head instead of one’s own. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

and one of my favourites:

We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge ~ Rutherford D. Rogers (noted Yale librarian)

And here is a photo that comes along.

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The little image is my new logo for the new challenge. Feel free to grab the badge if you feel like joining the challenge.

THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: PICK A WORD – MAY 2022

This is my monthly photo challenge titled Pick a Word. You may choose any of the given words (one or all or some of them) and interpret them in images captured by you.

This month’s choices:

BELFRY

DIMINUTIVE

REPETITIVE

SHOALY

SILHOUETTED

belfry

diminutive

repetitive
shoaly
silhouetted

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This selection shows images of Nin, Croatia. Diminutive depicts the smallest cathedral in the world. I hope you like the images and find them inspiring for your entries. Looking forward to seeing them. Till next time….

THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: PICK A WORD – APRIL 2022

What follows is my monthly photo challenge titled Pick a Word. You may choose any of the given words (one or all or some of them) and interpret them in images that you took.

This month’s selection:

ABLAZE

BASTION

FLAMING

SALIENT

SKYLINE

ABLAZE
BASTION
FLAMING
SALIENT
SKYLINE

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