What a good idea Tina has! Why not bring us closer together by making us join new challenges? I gladly obey. This post answers to five.
Every blogger just starting out should be told this: Do not wait. Start joining challenges immediately or your blog will only be visited by perplexed relatives for a year (well, this depends on your level of bubbliness and weirdness).
What a boost I got back then when I joined my first challenges – Thursday Doors, Weekly Photo Challenge and various Cee’s challenges – yes, after a year of more or less blogging in silence! The year was 2015 and I’m happy to say that the first one, my favourite Thursday Doors, is still going strong, as is Cee with her output.
These are the challenges that I post for regularly, including this one, Lens Artists PC, of course. In each line the first link leads to the most recent challenge post, and the second to my latest contribution:
- Thursday Doors: host Dan Antion – Thursday Doors 6/1/22: Maribor;
- Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: hosts Amy, Leya, Patti, Tina + 3 new ones – Lens-Artists PC: January 2021;
- Pic and a Word: host Patrick Jennings – Pic and a Word #296: Bluster;
- Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC): host Marsha Ingrao – PPAC: Prekmurje 1 – Robert Jurak;
- Friendly Friday: hosts Amanda, Sandy, Sarah – Friendly Friday Festivus;
- Last on the Card: host bushboy – Last photo in December;
- less regularly: Cee’s challenges, with Cee’s Foto Fun Challenge as favourite – More Than Four Colours.
As you can imagine, my blogging week is rather full and luckily I post every day or I’d never manage to fit in all of these. That’s why I’m especially glad for this opportunity to post for some challenges, which otherwise I might not do so soon, even though I want to. Let’s do it in random order.
1. Thursday Trios, hosted by Mama Cormier
Recent addition to our train station. I have not tried the goodies yet. 
Villa Lante, Bagnaia. 
Imaginary friends.
2. Six Word Saturday, hosted by Debbie Smyth. Each photo comes with six words.
3. Pick a Word, hosted by Paula at Lost in Translation: Each photo corresponds to one of the five words, given by Paula.
INTROSPECTIVE 
ANTICIPATING 
BEFRIENDING 
CHOICES 
WISH
4. Pull Up a Seat, hosted by XingfuMama
5. For a bit of fun, Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Cups or glasses.
For fun is the only way I dare do B&W.
For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Tina at Travels and Trifles: Double Dipping
and for:
- Thursday Trios, hosted by Mama Cormier
- Six Word Saturday, hosted by Debbie Smyth
- Pick a Word, hosted by Paula at Lost in Translation
- Pull Up a Seat, hosted by XingfuMama
- Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Cups or glasses.
This day in my blogging history
2017: What Orwell failed to predict is that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching. —Keith Lowell Jensen
An Embarrassment of Riches 
Thank you for sharing these challenges, Manja! Your images are wonderful and always fit the challenge so well.
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Thank you kindly, Deborah. 🙂 This is lovely to hear. This was a lovely occasion to take part in all these new challenges.
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I agree that the challenges are an essential part of the blogging community, Manja, and a great way to get started, but they can be exhausting to keep up with. I read blogs every day but no way could I post that often. I like a life-blog balance, with the emphasis on living. You do a great job. .
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Thank you, Jo. Your comment gave me some thought. The life-blog balance, in particular. With the emphasis on living… Not stellar in this regard, I’m afraid. I’m having such an active blog especially for this reason – not much living to do around here. I’m a person who needs a kick to get around.
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I probably need a kick or two, Manja, but not so much to get me out there. I love my surroundings.
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Ohh, I do too! I’m sooo grateful to be where I am. But every step is painful. 😦 And today I’ve heard that almost 10% of our little town are positive.
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It creeps closer, and you have to wonder why we took such pains to avoid it 🤣💕
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I love challenges, they always inspire an idea. I’m running a prompt for next month, Floral Friday. If you’re interested your welcome to drop in 😁
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Thank you for the invitation, Not Pam, but as you can see I’m really booked as it is. We will see.
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😉
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I am glad I am not the only photo challenge addict out there. I didn’t start until 2017 and now enjoy hosting a few challenges as well. Thanks for the mention for Last on the Card Manja 🙂 🙂
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You’re welcome, bushboy. You know that I love your Last card. 🙂
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👍🤗
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Your first entries for Thursday Trios are fantastic. I particularly like the one of the three people leaning over the wall.
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Thank you, Carol! It’s been fun choosing photos in my archives. I’m sure it’s even more fun if you look around and try to find trios especially for this challenge.
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I like your choices. And I agree. It is nice to “join a group”. Donna
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Thank you, Donna. I’m not really a group-joiner as such. I much prefer it one-on-one. But this blogging is different. Here I like to be in the company of many.
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We are alike that way. I was having a few challenging days this week. My husband said go lose yourself in your blog. He was so right. It is fun to reconnect with people.
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He knows you well. 🙂 And yes, we are always here, if not all of us all the time, many of us most of the time.
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Wow! I love your photos and you’ve done an impressive job of joining lost of challenges. You’re right that this is the way to get into blogging – you’ll meet lots of wonderful people and get lots of followers. And you’ll then work out how much you can blog and link and where you feel happy. I have made lots of new friends through challenges, some that I meet and some that I chat with on zoom, and some I just comment with on blog. The most important is to do at least one of Cee’s and watch who else she features or joins in with. Happy Blogging! And thanks for joining 6WS 🙂
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Oh, I’ve been blogging for 8 years and this is my 6th blog. 😀 What I describe here are my blogging beginnings. I’ve hosted some bloggers here in Tuscany as well. Just somehow this is the first time I answer to your interesting challenge. In any case, thank you, Debbie. Blogging is wonderful and bloggers are the best.
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Seriously well done Manja! All of your images with each of the posts wonderfully. Enjoyed every one of them and several were new to me so that’s great!
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Thank you, Tina, I’m glad that I could alert you to some new challenges. This was such a great idea. I’ve enjoyed doing this post a lot.
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What fun! That last door is exceptional. (K)
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Thank you, K. Yes, much fun was had with this post. Finally I got a chance to join all these challenges for the first time (except Cee’s b&w I did once or twice before).
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I don’t know how you do it, posting every day. I can barely get one post every week or two. I do enjoy seeing your photos so I’ll leave it there. I get that we all like to challenge ourselves. Keep up the great work.
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That’s it, Marlene. My life severely lacks challenges so I’m doing it this way… Not complaining. Thank you for sticking around.
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What a lot of different challenges you’ve managed to link to! I’m tempted to join in with Thursday Trios as it’s a great concept, but I’m not sure I can fit anything else into my blogging week! Let’s see 🙂
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Oh, Sarah, I know! It’s getting hard to juggle all of them! We do what we can… Good luck with it. 🙂 And thanks! I had much fun with this post.
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Great photos. Are those practice ski jumps in the photo ‘Choices’? Are they use when there is no snow? Thanks.
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Thank you, John! This is the Nordic centre Planica in Slovenia. They use all these ski jump hills for practice and competitions, both in the summer and in the winter. We were there in August and some girls were having a go practicing. Yes, they jump too. 🙂 Slovenia has had many successes in male and female jumps and flights.
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Wonderful effort posting everyday. I used to do that but since I revitalised my love for sketching and doing some courses, I can’t seem to fit it in. But I still try. I love best your social distancing chairs and the three smiley faces in the train station.
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Thank you, Teresa! 🙂 Ohhh, I’m so happy for you! You’re doing what you love, away from the computer. Brilliant.
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I try but I just don’t know how long the momentum goes…fingers crossed.
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Manja – the one and only! Well done doing all of these challenges – and that is WELL DONE. Wonderful combos and beautiful mind you have. The eye – something you most certainly have, combined with the feeling. I envy you doing all of those challenges, as I have lost both time and mojo. I don’t know what is happening really…but I have friends feeling the same way. Life is not what it used to be, and I really don’t know how to get some fun back into it. Reading and seeing your posts always make me smiling and happy though – have you ever thought of how much joy you bring to people?
I was blogging for two years and only family watched me…you are so right – doing challenges, that’s the key. So many wonderful people I have met, and like you point out – bloggers are the best!
Love all your choices, the distancing chairs made me smile extra. I found some new challenges too – but my favourites are Paula’s and Debbie’s plus LAPC. ♥ Big hug.
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Sweetest Ann-Christine. ❤ You always have such nice words for me and what I do. I could live on them for sustenance, and in a way I do.
I understand about the lost mojo, it's common and not hard to understand. But you see, I have given myself the task to post daily until May 22 when one year is complete because of the blogging memories that I post daily. I wish to come full circle and then we will see.
Bloggers are the best for sure. And we do what we can and when we can, no pressure. That I can make you smile is the best it can be. And that I can bring joy to everybody who needs it. Much love and many thanks for your words and beautiful heart!
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Fun assembly of seats. I adore the little courtyard in Montefiascone, and I was so intriged by the Sutri Amphitheatre that I looked it up. Thanks for playing along and have a great week.
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Thank you kindly, XingfuMama! 🙂 I had much fun with this post and in choosing the seats for you. Glad to hear that you had a look at Sutri upon seeing it hear. I bet that you found photos of it with nice green grass. We were there in August and it was completely dry as always in the summer.
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Wow, you covered all the bases, Manja. Thanks for including PPAC in your list of challenges. I look forward to all your posts every week. 🙂
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You’re most welcome, Marsha. How could I forget! 🙂 My next PPAC post coming up tomorrow.
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🙂 I’m looking forward to it. 🙂
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Oh, but now you have seen it already. 🙂
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LOL, Geez, where is my brain?
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Thank you for sharing these challenges. I’ll look into Six Word Saturday and Pick a Word!
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This is great to hear, Julie, that my post made you wish to check them out. 🙂 I wish you much fun with them.
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