The Eiffel Tower? Stonehenge? Your town’s sole traffic light? For this week’s photo challenge, blow us away with your take on the monumental.
Standing right beneath the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, looking up as it tapered elegantly into the sky, I felt endlessly minuscule. Yet there was something comforting in knowing that other people were right there next to me, experiencing the same emotions (and taking the same shots).
Monuments — both big and small — are strange like that. They insist on their own importance, but at the same time allow locals and tourists, pilgrims and accidental visitors, to share a moment and to get a taste of each other’s stories.

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo by Ben Huberman.
My favorite photo from that visit doesn’t show the Arch’s true grandeur — it shows how, despite its incredible size, it’s still a human monument, one created by and for others like us.
In this week’s challenge, show us your take on a monument (broadly defined). It could be a fresh angle on a well-known tourist site, or a place nobody knows outside your community. It doesn’t even have to be an official monument. A legendary coffeehouse, a churchyard cemetery, the remains of a treehouse you’d built as a kid — anything can be monumental as long as it’s imbued with a shared sense of importance.
– Ben
Love this challenge! Check out my submission: http://basicallybeyondbasic.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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hi Ben,
thanks for inspiring us this week again!
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my choice this week: a monument in Cologne – with admirers:
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
P.S.: extinguished in the meantime, so this is a rare document!
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I like the new layout and design of the Dailypost site. Congrats on the ‘new’ website!
Here’s a photo gallery from Oslo:
http://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/photo-walk-gallery-oslo/
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Hmmm, that is a bold, mysterious photo… And a challenging challenge! 🙂
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Decided on a monumental symbol –
http://followyournose.me/2014/04/12/april-showers-a-monumental-symbol/
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Where do pingbacks appear for this challenge? I’m unable to see them on my laptop (as far as I know)
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My entry this week: http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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Ben, I love the angle of this. I wouldn’t have known what it was if you hadn’t told us.
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Here’s my response to the challenge, found in eastern Wyoming.
http://sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
janet
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Devils Tower is a lot harder to mask than the Arch, I guess. Such a beautiful/strange place.
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Too many to choose from 😀
http://unclespikes.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument-i/
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Two monuments from the area I live in: A castle and a monastery (Kronenberg and Eberbach): http://empireoflights.com/2014/04/11/break-on-through/
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From my trip since I was a child, I love to photograph monuments around the world, could you name it all?
http://agent909.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument-could-you-name-it-all/
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Different totems: http://insellos.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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A photo from Krakow, Poland:
http://bumblepuppies.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/monumental-buildings-insult-my-intelligence/
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great angle! and love the new look on the page 🙂
http://theeclecticeccentricshopaholic.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/monument/
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Hi, everyone — we know the pingbacks are currently AWOL. They’ll be back soon!
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Lol ok glad to hear they’ll be returning! 🙂
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Thanks for answering that question, Michelle. Will we no longer receive an email from WP letting us know the challenge is out?
janet
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Nice new lay-out!
Here’s my monument: http://drieskewrites.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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One from Chittle Chattle. http://chittlechattle.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monumental/
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Here is my entry for this week’s challenge: http://wp.me/p24idL-1To
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Interesting and quite challenging! Thanks
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Monument – Mysore Church http://myvividvisions.com/2014/04/11/monument-mysore-church/
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My entry: the palace of Versailles
http://ropmann.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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Lots of contributions from me this week!!!! http://sfchapman.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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Here’s my response: a black&white photo of a natural monument.
http://maraeastern.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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Not very creative – here is my monument: http://wp.me/p3gqMf-cV
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Hi.. it’ me again 😉
http://follygirlsphotoworld.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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A contribution from Just Snaps. http://justsnaps.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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http://sillarit.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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Some monuments http://ambitiousdrifter.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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This is my submission: https://solaner.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/weekly-photo-challenge-monument/
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Where are the pingbacks?
https://wordpress.com/dailypost/dp_photo_challenge/monument/
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And it would be nice if the links would change color once we’ve used them the way they used to, to make it easier to know where we’ve already been.
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That’s true Janet.
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I was just going to post something about the links not changing color. I thought it was just my slow internet. Plus, I didn’t get an email for the WPC. But, honestly, I like that there are no pingbacks. I get so tired of my comments filled with pingbacks from posters who never even look at my post.
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Hear Hear Janet
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I agree, too
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For sure!
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I saw many monuments….choosing one is not easy.
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What a better destination than Paris to find Monuments :
http://icezine.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/monument-weekly-photo-challenge/
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Excellent shot, Ben. 🙂
Mine’s here, Non Violence, a monument I’ll never tire of seeing.
http://www.pirancafe.com/2014/04/11/non-violence-pic-du-jour/
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