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Early last April, I spent a long weekend in Boston wandering the Freedom Trail and eating clam chowder (although not at the same time). One morning, as I was strolling through the Public Gardens in Boston Common, I stopped in front of this remarkable tulip. Not only was it the lone red specimen in a planting full of yellow flowers, but it was the only open bloom in a sea of still-sprouting buds. It was so unexpected that I had to immortalize it in photo; to me, it told a story of not being afraid to be unique, to stand out, to embrace difference.

In a new post specifically created for this challenge, share a picture that says UNIQUE to you.

michelle-weberMaybe the image itself shows something distinct from its surroundings, or maybe it’s a unique take on a common subject. Maybe it’s a unique person in your life, or a treasured heirloom that’s irreplaceable. I’m excited to see what “unique” means to you!

- Michelle

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New to The Daily Post? Whether you’re a beginner or a professional, you’re invited to get involved in our Weekly Photo Challenge to help you meet your blogging goals and give you another way to take part in Post a Day / Post a Week. Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.

Here’s how it works:

1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Friday when the next photo theme will be announced.

2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag. You can also link to this post to create a pingback here and to encourage more people to participate.

3. Subscribe to The Daily Post so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements. Sign up via the email subscription link in the sidebar or RSS.

943 Comments
  1. here’s mine :) – Kitten playing with garden hose.
    http://magnoliadiary.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  2. Here is my challenge about toilets.
    https://cocomino.wordpress.com/

    February 3, 2013
  3. Here are my entries for this week’s challenge!

    http://adayinthelifeofjennay.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  4. let me share this unique trip with you, along with one my favorite verse & song “,)

    http://xristinamaria.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  5. angelfrouk #

    Here’s mine. Unique Industrial Heritage: http://frouk.net/?p=569

    February 3, 2013
  6. Here’s mine: Uniqueness is commonplace
    http://deetoursbydeepali.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/uniqueness-is-commonplace/

    February 3, 2013
  7. To me unique was encountering one of natures wonders. One of natures mighty creatures. http://andreaonderweg.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  8. Here is my interpretation of “Unique”
    http://figline365.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/unique-unica
    Every single one of us is unique, we all are new and unique editions of the great book of existence.

    February 3, 2013
  9. How to be unique in an apartment block?

    http://9step.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique

    February 3, 2013
  10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique Gold Car – Vibrant Gujarat 2013 http://wp.me/p2RP4U-6X

    February 3, 2013
  11. Here is my entry for this week:
    http://sued51too.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  12. Jo #

    Great topic. Here is my photograph. http://winedrinkingmummy.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  13. Here’s my post
    http://wp.me/p1TBzd-xT

    February 3, 2013
  14. A four-legged Able Seaman is a hero in Simon’s Town! http://wp.me/p1wyZM-qd

    February 3, 2013
  15. I hope this event is unique enough. Here is mine: http://keluargasimple.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/qatar-motor-show-2013/

    February 3, 2013
  16. Here is my entry for this weeks challenge!
    All the way from Jerusalem!!
    http://janalinesworldjourney.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  17. Unique or wierd. You be the judge.
    http://menomama3.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  18. When the weather dictates the photograph, you get a unique perspective on the world

    http://morethanacat.wordpress.com/

    February 3, 2013
  19. I have a question, why is that people are leaving pingbacks to their sites and not bothering to post any comments on mine. That’s hardly playing fair now. One person who left a pingback, I took a look and they had over 200 pingbacks on their site. I don’t mind a pingback if they are going to comment but just leaving a pingback very lazy!!

    February 3, 2013
    • I think you speak sense and I speak from a position of not understanding pingbacks at all :(

      February 3, 2013
      • What I have just read – The selfish among us are using the pingback system to help promote their sites in the hoping that they rise up the search engines even though their sites maybe not worth the bothering with or promoting products that are not worth the money being asked for. I do suggest that we take a look at the person wishing to place a ping back on our sites first to see if its what you would like being associated with or they have not left a comment in return for the pingback.
        You can find all about Pingbacks here :-)

        http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/pingbacks/

        February 3, 2013
      • oh thanks I will look. Thankfully I’m not getting too many but now I can see on other sites it’s a real problem. There was one poor blogger who had but one like and six pingbacks. If I see them now I won’t go to their post.

        February 3, 2013
      • A pingback is a type of comment that’s created when you link to another blog post where pingbacks are enabled… go to this link to learn more: ://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/pingbacks/

        February 3, 2013
      • I’m gonna take a look at these pingbacks, because I’m still new. Thanks for the info!

        February 4, 2013
    • I had the same question about pingbacks. If you have enough time to visit a post and leave a pingback, can’t you just leave a comment as well?

      February 3, 2013
      • Sometimes I believe that what they ‘write’ is stolen from somewhere on the net and then slap a pingback on and then when they are high enough on a search engine they can start then pushing their sometimes illegal products. I do have a spam catcher so that helps and I also have anyone adding to my posts they go into a sandbox first until I have moderated them. So they are wasting their time.

        February 3, 2013
    • Yes, this is game on the user’s part and a question for the Administration. I’m new and I don’t know the etiquette just yet on pingbacks.

      February 3, 2013
    • I think you don’t quite understand pingbacks. Yes, they can be misused, or rather used with different motivations. But there is no way for me to “place” a pingback on your blog without linking to it from my blog. Speaking for myself, I do that if I like your blog and want readers of my blog to go to your blog. If I write, for example, “Mysoresoul’s post is great—check it out!” with a link to your blog, you will get a pingback. You may of course not want me to highlight your blog in this way… And you can choose not to approve individual pingbacks or to disallow all pingbacks on your blog. So it’s totally under your control.

      February 3, 2013
      • I do understand and I know I have to approve them, what annoys me is that if they can bother setting up a pingback they can write a wee comment, its not hard and I would also go as much as being polite. I don’t want 200 people wishing to be allowed to leave a pingback and out of those 200 I get one comment. I am not going to approve a pingback if people cannot leave a comment, What does it take ‘Nice blog, nice ideas, I am going to pass it to others’ I have a gallery on another site of mine and its inundated with people spamming it with adverts so I have to moderate it, it is the same here pingbacks by the bucket load and no comments. If you cannot comment don’t expect to be allowed a pingback I am not playing that game. Its that simple!

        February 3, 2013
  20. Forgive me for posting two entries but this one HAD to be documented! http://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique-sunday-post-hope/

    February 3, 2013
  21. Here is my first go at a photo challenge.

    http://simpledemente.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  22. Unique cloud formations I have seen
    http://patriciaddrury.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-uhinque/

    February 3, 2013
  23. I haven’t participated in a while, (and it sure is busy here now!) so here is some unique yarn to get me back in.

    http://spidersworkshop.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  24. here’s mine… here’s mine… http://s1ngal.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/a-unique-weekly-photo-challenge/

    February 3, 2013
  25. http://theadventuresofadr.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    I love this week’s theme of unique! For this challenge I chose an image from a recent hiking excursion in the isolated beauty of El Cocuy National Park in Colombia! At about an elevation of 12,000 feet very unique, strange looking plants called Frailejones grow out of the ground like some sort of weird, martian dandelion up to heights around 3 meters! With the stunning backdrops of snow capped mountains being hugged by beautiful clouds and blue bird skies, it was one of the most unique visuals I have ever witnessed. Hope you enjoy! All comments are welcome!

    February 3, 2013
  26. UNIQUE, and at the same time, UNIVERSAL – the human condition:
    http://bluebrightly.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/unique-and-universal-daily-post-weekly-photo-challenge/
    from BLUEBRIGHTLY

    February 3, 2013
  27. Kuppili Divya #

    https://myfootography.wordpress.com/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/ – My contribution to this week’s photo challenge. Do have a look at it :)

    February 3, 2013
  28. Selmade and only 1 time so it’s unique http://wibrpic.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  29. Topic is very nice according to the season. In Spring season you may get lots of flowers either in the garden or near the field , which presents absolute picture of the nature, which does not signify on the beauty of nature but also gives the glimpse of colourful life. You may enjoy a lot here http://bhardwajsk.wordpress.com

    February 3, 2013
  30. Here’s my “unique”: http://wp.me/peFzZ-glA

    February 3, 2013
  31. jampang #

    i have three pictures for this challenge

    http://jampang.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  32. Hope you’ll enjoy my post
    for this weeks’ theme I got totally “ZEN”

    http://dauwpics.blogspot.be/2013/02/helemaal-zen.html

    February 3, 2013
    • you have a like button? Sorry I don’t understand the language.

      February 3, 2013
      • Dear Mabel,
        I don’t have a like button but I ‘m glad to read your reaction here. The English translation of the dutch words is also written underneath the picture.

        Kind regards from Dauw

        February 4, 2013
      • Oh, ok, thanks. I guess I didn’t look clearly. Have a good day

        On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:03 PM, The Daily Post

        February 4, 2013
  33. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful pictures and cool story. I got mine done. It’s my little cutie pie birdie. http://mabel8ble.wordpress.com/ Hope you enjoy her as well. Have a great day and week ahead.

    February 3, 2013
  34. Unique: Oil + Water = Artistic images

    Anyone with a camera that can zoom or has a macro setting can create artistic images. Come see the unique image I created using: Oil + Water + Marbles

    Source: http://www.rickdiffleyphotography.com/2013/02/03/make-artistic-images-using-oil-and-water/

    February 3, 2013
  35. I had some difficulty to remember something unique in my town, but here it is: http://belohorizontedailyphoto.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  36. Good Afternoon: Just in time for the Super Bowl kickoff, here is my first contribution this week (San Francisco is a halfway decent source for the unique). http://vonnscottbair.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique-san-franciscos-castro-theater/
    Vonn Scott Bair

    February 3, 2013
  37. Here’s my unique interpretation:
    http://philippinehappinessandlove.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/photo-challenge-unique/

    Sorry, I am a little bit late again. Juggling school work between household chores on weekends is a little bit of a challenge, but I guess, late is better than never. Looking forward to see all your posts for this challenge… Take care!

    February 3, 2013
  38. There are so many unique things to be found in the world it was hard to select just a few for this weeks photo challenge. But I managed to pick five ranging from the ridiculous, a salmon sculpture wearing headphones, to the sublime of Michelangelo’s “David”.

    http://politonomicsandtravel.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique-02-03-2013/

    February 3, 2013
  39. samokan #

    My entry for this week , enjoy and have a great week everybody.
    http://samokan.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  40. Long time, no posting! I was in Japan for a while, and made a point of not going on the internet! You can see my unique visit to the Osaka Aquarium here!
    http://annetjiesepoems.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  41. You don’t put presents under this unique worm. . .
    http://turtlestravel.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  42. Sea Play Photography #

    Here is my weekly challenge photo http://cplayphotography.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  43. This is my first photo challenge post. Yay! Unique reminded me of a favorite photo I cherish of my youngest daughter doing what she does best, being her unique little self.
    http://christinasweetnothings.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  44. here’s my attempt at ‘unique’: http://tostir.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/follow-me/

    February 3, 2013
  45. Enjoy! I haven’t posted in a while. :)
    http://thinkbigmuch.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 3, 2013
  46. never fear wrinkles…a unique approach to handling it…http://wp.me/p1RzUf-22l :)

    February 3, 2013
  47. Girl fight? Sort of… in the highest ring in the world! :o The “Fighting Cholitas” are a group of female lucha libre wrestlers who perform in El Alto, Bolivia. Members of a group called the Titans of the Ring, which includes both male and female wrestlers – Go ‘female power’! :o Curious? http://3rdculturechildren.com/2013/02/03/fighting-cholitas/

    February 3, 2013
  48. I’m so glad this challenge came along, so I could post this pic and celebrate a unique Australian..
    http://onthegypsystrail.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 4, 2013
  49. An Ernest question about hybrid plants, and a unique bush with different colored flowers
    http://endlessframe.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-hybrid-flowers/

    February 4, 2013
  50. My entry for this week’s challenge.
    http://wp.me/p1vqRI-I8

    February 4, 2013
  51. A unique celebration of love. yousufbawany.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 4, 2013
  52. lensaddiction #

    A unique viewpoint on a building that no longer exists

    http://lensaddiction.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 4, 2013
  53. LemOrange for everyone ♥
    http://adodcespresso.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 4, 2013
  54. Great challenge … I had an opportunity to see Brussels from a unique and free view … and here are the pictures … http://aphrojunkee.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/brussels-parking-58/

    February 4, 2013
  55. An African unicorn . . . http://wp.me/pYuZP-1W5

    February 4, 2013
  56. Hi everybody.
    Here my entry for this “Unique” theme :-)
    http://wp.me/pjXOq-1l5

    February 4, 2013
  57. The 4th tallest fountain in the world and Disc Golf – a 2 for 1 photo:
    http://gogreygirl.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 4, 2013
  58. A unique place (Six Nations Mohawk Reserve) with some unique-ish shots…. :)
    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/photo-challenge-unique/

    February 4, 2013
  59. Flying with WordPress, literally . . .
    http://judylesko.com/2013/02/04/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/

    February 4, 2013

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