A selection of stunning images from our recent photo challenge.
From walls and fences to the limitless expanse of the ocean, you’ve shared hundreds of moving photos in response to our recent photo challenge, “Boundaries.”
As always, it was incredibly hard to select just a handful of standout entries. Here are a few that I found particularly striking.
Sara Zancotti
When we think of the Eiffel Tower, it’s usually its pointed verticality that comes to mind. Sara Zancotti instead focuses on the fences that keep visitors from jumping, giving an eerie, slightly oppressive vibe to this iconic structure.
The world is a book…
Blogger Amy snapped a gorgeous portrait of a horse staring back at her from the other side of a fence. Its plaintive-yet-defiant look almost erases the distance between human and animal.
SpoonGood
Boundaries don’t have to be rigid, stark things. I love the bright softness of the moss that separates massive, lichen-covered slabs of stone in SpoonGood‘s photo.
Life is Celebration…
A colorful portrait of a woman lifting her veil in India highlights the tension between transparency and opaqueness.
Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera
A bridge is by definition a bottleneck, a confined space that lets people cross an obstacle. Lignum Draco (the pseudonym of the blogger behind Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera) makes this point evident in a breathtaking photo of Sydney’s Harbour Bridge, complete with a group of intrepid hikers climbing up its arch.
WitchWithaView
Finally, to think of boundaries is also to dream about their absence. This dramatic image of cloudy skies over water, over at WitchWithaView, can make even the biggest skeptic believe that (almost) anything’s possible.
For everyone who participated in the challenge, thank you! I look forward to the next one.
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Where are these?
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I’ve included the locations in which the photos were taken for the posts that included that information (Paris, Sydney, etc.). For others, you can always leavr a comment on the blogger’s post, asking for more information!
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Hey Ben, thanks for sharing this interesting collection. Just thought I’d mention that ‘Ghunghat’ is the Hindi word for ‘veil’ and not a place. 🙂
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Thank you for alerting me to my error — I really appreciate it. I’ve corrected the post accordingly.
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Various pictures!
I will learn more about this photo challenge!
Glad that Paris is on your selection 🙂
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Splendid shot. I hope I could capture one like this
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Wow, incredible photos!
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Nice choices, the first two are my favorites.
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Photographs shown with central theme ‘Boundried’ are just too good.
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These are beautiful. I wish my attempts at photography were just as good, but, ah, I’m trying 🙂
My Blog —> jenzpic.wordpress.com
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Incredible photos!! It is always cool to see people’s different techniques!
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My favorite has to be the cloudy skies over water by WitchWithAView. Gorgeous, spooky — looks like the professional cover of a fantasy book.
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Amazing photos with playful light shades, vivid colours or well-toned black&white. Realistic and catchy deatils complement the final effect – in a nutshell, brilliant! 🙂
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Hi Ben. Thank you very much for including mine amongst this selection of photos. I love the diversity of great photography we get to see with these challenges.
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Thanks for participating, and for sharing such stunning photos with us all.
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Awesome pics!
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All of them inspiring.
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Stunning.
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Wow all these are great!
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This is fantastic
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Hello, this is not relevant, but I had a quesiton. How can you change the posts on your home page to just be excerpts? Thank you!
Love,
Aditi
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**question -.-
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You can read about how to create excerpts here:
https://wordpress.com/support/excerpts/
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Thanks, I’ll check it out!!
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Thank you Ben, I’m honored 😊 Mine is in better quality on my blog though, how come it looks different here? Thanks
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Strange — your image looks great on my screen on both sites. It might be the way our theme displays on your computer?
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Could be, but the other photos look like they’re in good quality. Weird..
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I have to say my favorite is the clouds. It’s so mysterious. Great pics!
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Great shots, indeed! Particularly, that portrait of woman in India is storytelling.
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What a great idea, and the Boundaries are shown in so many unique ways!
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Interesting aspect for the Sydney Harbor Bridge, really beautiful.
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The Horse is my favorite. it captured the expression it wish to convey. Love it! Kudos to the photographer! I love photography!
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Such an amazing collection! Love it!
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these are beautiful pictures!
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Fantastic shots!! I hope I will take pictures like this one day 🙂
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I loved all the pics but i liked the pic with ‘woman in veil’ more.Hats off to the photographer who had a completely different perspective of objectifying ‘Boundaries’. Veil is, unfortunately, one of the many boundaries for rural women in India.
Great work by the way!
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I could stare at this picture of the clouds all day, and just meditate. I feel like there is something there, inside those clouds. Something better than we have here. I feel as though it’s not going to invite us in, rather it’s waiting for us to join on our own.
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Stunning photographs with crisp and clean focal points.
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Thank you so much, Ben! I’m honored to be included here. This is such a inspiring theme.
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My pleasure, Amy! What a beautiful shot.
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Interesting photos to reflect what life is and how certain places reflect that.
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