Blog Challenges

We Have A Winner!

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Well, it’s a good thing we can enter more than one picture into the Single Frame Stories blog challenge…because we had a tie!

Readers were evenly divided between Vanilla Peep and Death by Vanilla. Make sure you check out the Single Frame Stories later to see all of the entries!

I was a bit concerned that Vanilla Peep didn’t really tell a story on its own, so I added some text. I’ve included the updated photo here.

1 Vanilla Better Than Butterscotch

1 Death By Vanilla 81

Thanks to all of you who voted. I may try this again since I now know how to do a poll 😀

Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense – A Distant Horizon

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The Weekly Photo Challenge this week is once again a phoneography challenge. While I do enjoy taking photos with my phone, I can’t say I’ll be unhappy when “Phoneography Month” is over. It’s not my focus for this blog and I don’t feel as comfortable with my photos taken with my Galaxy SIII as I do with shooting pictures in Second Life.

Still, I did say I would attempt to take the challenge each week. The prompt for A Distant Horizon is:

It’s still phoneography month, and in today’s challenge I’m hoping you’ll put all of that futuristic camera tech to good use, by thinking about the shape of things to come.

…In today’s challenge we want you to grab an image from your world that holds the promise or portent of the future.

This challenge is still a good one for me. I decided this week to accept redundancy from my place of work of over 12 years. I’ll be taking a short break before chasing that distant horizon. Somewhere, out there, beyond the Coat Hanger and Opera House, is my future place of employment. My wish is that it is fulfilling and gives me satisfaction.

1 Sydney skyline

That I took this photo from my current place of work makes it even more fitting.

You can check out the Weekly Photo Challenge blog, with additional entries in the comments, here.

You Can’t Go Wrong With Vanilla

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But which vanilla to choose?

If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it.
~Ken Livingstone

As I promised earlier in the week, I have created three photos for the Single Frame Stories blog challenge and YOU get to choose which one I enter. I can keep this promise because I figured out how to do a poll in my blog 😀 And while I have my favourite, I’m going to prove Mr Livingstone wrong and I’ll abide by your decision.

But before we get to the poll, here is a refresher. You can click the links to check out the full posts, or you can click on the images in the poll to see a larger image.

1. Decisions, Decisions

2. Why Does Chocolate Get All The Press?

3. Yippee! Look At Me!! Number Three!!!

And….drumroll…here it is! Your chance to choose my Vanilla entry!

Because I have to enter my photo by Saturday, the poll will only run until 11:59pm Friday. So get in early and help me out. And I’d love to see your comments on why you chose the photo you did!