New York, NY
November 2009
This photo launches our new Thematic Photographic theme, far from home. For the next week, we'll be exploring photos that may have been taken, ah, far from your home. I know, such creativity!
As ever, how you interpret it is entirely up to you. For example, I offer you the picture to the left. It was taken in New York City, which by my odometer is about 880km from my front door, which would easily qualify it as far from home. But beyond the literal interpretation, there's the rather incongruous sight of a horse in the middle of a large city. I'd venture he's pretty far from home, too.
So as you choose your own contributions to the theme, please feel free to come up with any excuse you wish to justify the "far from home" connection. And have fun with it. Because that's why we do this, no?
Your turn: If you're a Thematic Photographic veteran, I believe you already know what to do. If you're new to our weekly photo-sharing activity, please click here for full details.
Far from home for me could have been several places, but this shot of the rail side grain elevators in Inglis, Manitoba fits the bill for today. So different than growing up in Toronto.
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ReplyDeleteOMG I'm excited about this one, so many ways one can journey with it! Excellent theme Carmi!
ReplyDeleteMine is here
http://twincitiesblather.blogspot.com/2011/01/thematic-photographic-130-far-from-home.html
Reminds me of "small kid times" growing up in Philadelphia. . .
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Argh! I have so many travel pics on FILM!!! This topic is frustrating to me.
ReplyDeleteOkay, here's my first post on it anyway:
http://apaperbackwriter.blogspot.com/2011/01/photo-non-contest-130-far-from-home.html
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ReplyDeleteHere are my Far from home pictures.
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(Miss one little quotation mark and mess up the whole link thing.)
How far is far?? Here are a few places I have been over the last 2 years... from a couple of hours away to a few time zones away.
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Vicki: That's entirely up to you :)
ReplyDeleteHa,ha,ha... I needed that.
ReplyDeleteThe building looks like a ghost town. Great shot! Here is my take; http://fredamans.blogspot.com/2011/01/thematic-photographic-far-from-home.html
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ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by and commenting. There is a story behind the travel and well ... behind everything I do ... maybe someday a theme will relate to the story ...
I love old buildings, theres something very romantic about them.
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Hey, Carmi- u had me stumped w/this theme...
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Carmi: as far as your comment, I have to agree w/you, it was a sign...and I bet your grandfather would agree as well.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm ... Have I posted enough on your blog yet??
ReplyDeleteI decided to elaborate more on Chicago, mainly to share more with A Paperback Writer and dennisthemennis. Just a note on the Navy Pier photo:
It was taken from the 95th floor of the John Hancock Building.
Hope you enjoy the addition
http://vickijf.blogspot.com/2011/01/far-from-home-part-2.html
this one was fun!
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Nice shot
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Here's my second entry. Yeah, I can really get into this sharing the photos thing, both mine and seeing all yours.
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Carmi, you had asked if I had more photos of Ireland. Here are a few for this weeks Far from home theme.
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Leaving home... fun. But I guess we all have to come back.
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This one is an intriguing theme, but it's hard to find a visual that works.
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http://doves2day.blogspot.colm
I love this topic.
ReplyDeleteI posted something far from home
I haven't joined the fun for a long time.
Your photo gets my imagination tingling....
Carmi, thanks for the blank canvas...as a hydrographic surveyor, I have had the pleasure to see a few places, far from home, New Orleans
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Great theme!
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Hi Carmi-- OK I found one in the Archives that represents a defing moment in my life. Hope you enjoy!!
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Hi Carmi,
ReplyDeleteI'm an expat, so my entire life exists "far from home", although I am almost at the stage where I call Dubai home. Here are a few pics of my great life!
http://sandpitdiaries.blogspot.com/2011/01/life-is-good.html
This week's photos have been fantastic Carmi! I have another "far from home" selection to add...
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Get one in under the wire. Far from home?
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I haven't been that far from home since May of last year... so I have to live vicariously through my brother's travels. He just returned to Vienna from Tokyo.. so I thought I would look at some of his fare. Tokyo is just about as far from home as you can get.
ReplyDeleteOne more 'far from home' set, with story of course.
ReplyDeleteDisneyland with 75 fifteen year olds
Far from Home - I love this theme, though it does leave me on the melancholy side.
ReplyDeleteGlad to be posting a Thematic Photographic again after just watching from the sidelines for so long. Had good intentions of posting photos that fit the theme throughout the week, I guess one post squeaking in at the last moment will have to do. (some things never change.)
My Far From Home Pictures
I'm very late with this entry
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