This week, publish an image of a sign — from the signs you encounter on the street to more personal, less obvious signs that hold meaning for you.
By From the street signs we see on our commute to work each day to the vintage neon signs put to rest in an outdoor museum in Las Vegas, signs are functional, but can also be decorative. Signs can direct us where to go, but they’re also pieces of art, which reveal much about the time period and culture in which they were made.
For those of you who have a less literal approach to our photo challenges, a sign can also be a gesture or a cue. Something welcome. Or mysterious. Or even foreboding.
A sign in Kamakura, Japan
I took the photograph above on a solo trip to Japan in 2006 — I’d just visited the Great Buddha of Kamakura, wandered off to look for the train station, and walked down an alley to find this sign in front of a closed shop. This mundane photograph of a sign with the cartoon face of Woody Allen and the phrase “coffee & whisky” has become one of my favorite photographs from my travels. It’s simple and random, yet somehow encapsulates my time there: days of wandering and hanging out in coffee shops; nights full of meeting new friends in cocktail lounges, bars, and clubs.
For this challenge, share an image of a sign: it can be a sign near your home — a comforting sight after a long journey — a sign that doubles as art, or other types of signs that hold meaning for you.
This was our choice for this week’s challenge: http://wp.me/p3vWrS-16z
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Of another kind: http://natiartphotography.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/weekly-photo-challenge-sign/
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Sometimes signs are helpful, other times less so:
http://wp.me/p2owKx-Eq
Cheers!
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Here you can see my interpretation of Signs. A great theme.
http://tinabhh.de/weekly-photo-challenge-signs/
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good one – signs are my life – literally 🙂
http://words4jp.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/weekly-photo-challenge-signs/
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Signs in the old town of Gouda http://witchwithaview.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/weekly-photo-challenge-signs/
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http://wp.me/p1j16x-1aU
New Forest////////
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Well, after publishing photos of two signs this morning, what a suprise: it is signs this week!! Well, signs can be anything. From trademarks to graffiti on trains. Here is a freight train offering both http://wp.me/paGem-3I8
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signs that i am going to be a BIG BROTHER soon!
http://inigobautista.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/weekly-photo-challenge-signs/
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MANY signs!
http://fakeormistake.net/2014/10/03/signs-3/
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Hope you get a chuckle or two out of these!
http://silverinthebarn.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/signs/
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Stupid Hurts: http://arrestingimagery.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/weekly-photo-challenge-signs/
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A relatively new sign in Old North Church represents hope for the third century: http://ohtheplaceswesee.com/2014/10/03/weekly-photo-challenge-signs/
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How about a look just outside San Francisco’s Exploratorium?
http://polymathically.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/weekly-photo-challenge-signs-or-the-exploratorium/
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Great topic — here’s my contribution:
http://wp.me/p1jjX8-5TB
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i love it ❤
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That face tho: “coffee & whiskey may cause depression”
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Weather beaten gravestones – signifying eternity and oblivion in equal measure.
http://fotorichter.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/steinzeichen-stone-signs-wpc/
PS: Why did the rat-catcher’s wife get a tombstone and the rat-catcher didn’t?
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Here’s a little bit of a twist to the challenge.
http://maryjmelange.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/signs-the-week-in-review/
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Also, here’s a road crossing sign you’ll only find in Hawaii:
http://polymathically.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/weekly-photo-challenge-signs-or-haleakala-nene-crossing/
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Heres my one: http://strangerinberlin.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/besetzt/
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a photo taken in varna bulgaria showing the macdonald’s sign in cyrillic. when overseas, i always look for macdonald’s. it often provides clean restrooms which are free to the public.
http://wp.me/p6FwZ-1Ii
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Signs, signs, everywhere there are signs.
here is my contribution:
http://sixdegreesphotography.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/weekly-photo-challenge-signs/
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Found a sign that works for me 🙂
http://paintedwords1.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/champagne-sign-of-the-times/
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Obsolete signs from shops in Göteborg, Sweden. “The poetic hairdresser’s” is somehow more modern.
http://vackrare.com/2014/10/04/signs/
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be right back…
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signs at;
http://marichulambino.com/2014/10/04/weekly-photo-challenge-signs/
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Still looking for signs from heaven . . . .
http://stephaniemartinglennon.com/2014/10/03/signs-beckoned-and-discovered/
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Unusual theme, here’s my signs:
http://agent909.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/signs-from-wall-street-to-africa/
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This is mine
Commemorating 1928’s Youth Oath
http://bambangpriantono.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/weekly-photo-challenges-signs-tanda/
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Two of the signs I chose:
http://shaanthz.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/weekly-photo-challenge-signs/
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