For this week’s challenge, share a photo with letters — no matter the alphabet. As you look through your lens, think about how your image might convey something bigger: a snapshot of how we communicate with one another, even if we don’t speak the same language.
I love the juxtaposition of scattered letters — a reminder that the elements within an alphabet are not only functional, but beautiful.
Chances are, if you’re a publisher and reader on the internet, you’re interested in language — in the way we communicate with each other, and the pieces we put together to do so, whether in English or Spanish, Arabic or Korean, Thai or Greek.
We type sentences on our keyboards and scribble notes in journals. We spray tags and murals on walls everywhere in the world. We carve our initials on wood to mark we were here or there. And we stumble upon letters and words wherever we go — in outdoor markets, on doors, across storefronts, or inside bathroom stalls.
Last weekend, I came upon a typographic display at the Brooklyn Flea Market in Fort Greene. I love the juxtaposition of scattered letters — a reminder that the elements within an alphabet are not only functional, but beautiful.

For this week’s challenge, share a photo with letters — no matter the alphabet. You can capture a neon sign, a sentence scribbled in an old phone booth, a random letter that’s seemingly out of place, or anything else. As you look through your lens, think about how your image might convey something bigger: a snapshot of how we communicate with one another, even if we don’t speak the same language.
Love the photo and challenge, thanks! We’ll all have fun with this one!
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A message of hope from the darkness of depression and mental illness…
http://brokenlightcollective.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/freedom-from-mental-illness/
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Letters, words…. very inspiring
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And 2 places, 1city for many letters : http://icezine.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/letters-weekly-photo-challenge/
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Nice. I’d know those encyclopedias anywhere. I used to work for World Book.
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Very nice photo
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thank you, Cheri, for inspiring us again!
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my choice this week: the letter art in Amsterdam:
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
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I love that photo, Cheri.
janet
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Millions of thanks for getting the pingbacks to change color!! Could we now get the same for the links in the comments? I really appreciate all the work all of you put into this and many more compliments are earned than complaints.
janet
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Totally agree – thanks for the fantastic improvements, especially the ping backs changing to orange. Doing the same with the comment links would be phenomenal!
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Great I have actually got something in mine for that! Will post later! X
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Here we go then! How good am I getting it in so quick! I will just go and shine my chuffty badge! X
http://no1queenie.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
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That’s a wonderful picture. Very inspiring.
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Some things are easier with letters – as long as you know how to use them. Nice theme. Here is my entry: http://wp.me/p3gqMf-cx
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Excellent Cheri! I love this image!
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Can’t wait to do this! I’ve got so many great photos of things that make letters.
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In the interest of expediency I will offer this post about exit C of the MTR in Hong Kong. It is a confusing exit in real life because of the tall buildings that surround it, but this confusion is furthered as the Google map only identifies the exit C of the Hong Kong Station and not the exit C for central station. As both stations are quite close, it is easy to think you are getting out somewhere where you are not.
http://geofoodie.org/2013/03/30/exit_c/
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Perfect challenge Cheri and a great photo with which to inspire us. I’m already planning the image 🙂
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What an interesting theme!
Here’s my entry: http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
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I like this challenge and it allows me to share a photo I’ve been enjoying for many months now, a blend of sassy and sensible.
http://sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
janet
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I have the perfect photo for this!
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I take photos of letters I find naturally in nature and combine them to make posters of places I visit. I hope you enjoy my posters. http://retirenicaragua.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
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This would be a fun theme for this week. I should go update my photo challenge. Thanks!
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Nice. Mine’s from a train station. I love train stations. 🙂
http://www.pirancafe.com/2014/04/25/breclav-station-pic-du-jour/
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One from Just snaps coming soon. http://chittlechattle.com/2014/04/25/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
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I had this in my archives and saved as a draft.
http://artishorseshit.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/ירושלים/
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B for Barcelona. http://ambitiousdrifter.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/weekly-photo-challenge-the-letter-b/
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Very inspirational, here’s my various contribution from me:
http://agent909.wordpress.com/category/the-world/
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A little gallery of signs, saying, graffiti and more …
http://teepee12.com/2014/04/25/signs-signals-and-symbols-weekly-photo-challenge/
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http://justsnaps.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
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Here is my entry for this week’s challenge: http://wp.me/p24idL-1Vr
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‘WOMAN AT WORK ‘ is a festival organised jointly by Conflictorium, Drishti and Natarani celebrating womanhood.
As part of this festival, a photo contest was organised with a theme “YOU CALL THIS WORK ?”. One of my photograph was selected and hence I went to visit the exhibition organized in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
There were lot of spots where I found interesting letters starting from the main door!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters http://myvividvisions.com/2014/04/25/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
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Stamps in Singapore: http://insellos.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
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Oh, them’s some juicy old pieces of printing paraphanalia (sp?) there…..
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The alleyway – letters on the ground, letters in the graffiti, letters everywhere – http://followyournose.me/2014/04/25/letters-from-the-alleyway/
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Hello All,
here is my arab jawi letters
http://situnis.com/malay-letter/
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http://justanothernatureenthusiast.org/2014/04/25/letters-weekly-photo-challenge/
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http://theeclecticeccentricshopaholic.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
love the letters. and how they’re in a gorgeous state of disarray 🙂
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My letters http://pilvipouta.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/letters/
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A — you’re Adorable
B — i’ll Be Back
with a photo… for you
for the Weekly Photo Challenge : Letters
(of the alphabet)
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Letters laden on a ledge…
painted…
for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters
(of the alphabet) at:
http://marichulambino.com/2014/04/26/weekly-photo-challenge-letters-of-the-alphabet/
Happy Weekend!
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