This week, show us something you appreciate despite — or even because of — its short shelf life.
Even when we snap a photo of a timeless monument like the Colosseum or the Taj Mahal, there’s something fleeting about the result. What we capture is just one specific moment of alignment between the world, our camera, and our eyes.
Still, I can’t help but feel a deeper wistfulness when my photo preserves something that is itself short-lived: my son’s first day at school, a rare get-together of far-flung friends, or, this time of year, the very temporary glory of fall colors.
Every October, I find myself walking down city blocks in awe of all the pinks and golds and purples that seem to have materialized out of nowhere. Pictures rarely do them justice, but I never regret trying anyway. Between the time I took the photo above and the moment I’m writing this, the rain and the wind have already taken care of the foliage, which is now mostly on the ground, ready to be swept up by cleaning crews before it clogs all the drains.
For this week’s challenge, share a photo that says “temporary” to you. As always, you can take the theme in any direction you see fit — from the natural world to the human, and from the concrete to the abstract. I look forward to browsing your photos!
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Happy Wednesday, everyone! 🙂 Here is my entry this week: http://stenoodie.com/2017/11/08/weekly-photo-challenge-temporary/
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Perfect Challenge here’s mine
https://piecesofstarlight.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/wpc-one-glorious-moment/
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Do I need to say more? 🙂
https://wp.me/p3gqMf-Ha
Happy Wednesday!
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This is good.
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Love it! Great picture of temporary!
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Good food for thought! X
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Visiting the ancestors:
https://insellos.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/weekly-photo-challenge-temporary/
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Beautiful autumn colours. Here’s mine: https://castelsarrasin.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/temporary-weekly-photo-challenge/
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More Beautiful Honestly.
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Lovely colors, Ben, and wide-open challenge.
janet
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Beautiful picture and a great theme for this week. I really love the colors of autumn which are not found here in Malta. I`ll see what I can found out for this weeks challange.
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such a lovely pic with well goes with the theme😊
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Frost covered then gone… https://wp.me/p3CFsE-43i
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This looks awesome! ❤ The focus and aperture was good! Good job! 🙂
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Thank you!
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My entry: https://rygalo.com/2017/11/08/weekly-photo-challenge-temporary/
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Sunset on the Nile.
https://feelosophical.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/dusk-on-the-nile/
Cheers,
N
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This moment is temporary, but it holds the seeds of eternity and the losses of the past in its grip. It is a complex and fleeting experience, a poignant mood that sweeps by like a leaf on the wind. https://scillagrace.com/2017/11/08/weekly-photo-challenge-temporary/
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A lovely challenge once again, Ben. Many people suffer from light depression in the autumn, but at least a bit of sadness and melancholy always hits me. I guess I am getting older as well…Here’s my entry from yesterday´s evening walk. Have a great Wednesday.
https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/wpc-temporary/
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For one long weekend a year, Lollapalooza hits downtown Chicago and Grant Park temporarily becomes one of the World’s biggest music venues! http://bit.ly/JJ-Lolla
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It is amazing, Wow! I loved it
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The example photo is absolutely stunning.
https://muchospanish.com/2017/11/08/weekly-photo-challenge-temporary/
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I somehow managed to link my post to an earlier daily challenge of the same name. When I started reading the other posts I thought “funny how many of these don’t have pictures” then realized my mistake. I think it is correct now, but just in case:
https://rickgriffinblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/details-filigree-plant-stand/
I’m still learning 🙂 Off to look for some other blogger’s pictures now!
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love it
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Lovely tree and prompt idea… 🙂
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Here’s my submission for this week: Food Porn. Hours to prepare. Gone in moments. Enjoy:https://cindimatography.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/weekly-photo-challenge-temporary/
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Wine down Wednesday WP Fam!
https://harlematl.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/a-temporary-offering/
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Hello all!
Here’s what I’ve got for this week.
Have a good one.
https://stupidityhole.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/purple-waves/
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Temporary and unforgetable (fortunatelly registered on this photo – https://www.instagram.com/p/BZvvJbUlwh9/?taken-by=joana_mimoso_freitas) was for me the feeling of meeting an idol of mine, of when I was an adolescent (20 years ago…) and feeling nervous, shaking, my heart accelerating but going ahead without anything to stop me! Getting closer and talking to him on a kindly face to face, seeing his smile, telling him that you wrote him so many letters and that he never answered 🙂 but smiling about the situation now that time went by and I’ve grew up (on that time I must have cried a lot with this not correspondent passion!) It was a victory for me, this temporary and healing moment.
Thanks for the idea, Ben, of sharing a moment!
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‘Chasing the Blue’ – the sky kind, not the drug kind.
https://laidigsbroadway.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/temporary/
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I so agree with you.. Here is my entry..
https://inotherwordsandpictures.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/weekly-photo-challenge-temporary/
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Love this pic! And I agree!!
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Waiting is temporary success is permanent: http://lifejourneywithjc.com/2017/11/09/waiting-is-temporary/)
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https://dhanyakdblog.com/2017/11/08/photo-challenge-nothing-lasts-forever%E2%80%8B/
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