Friendly Friday Photography Challenge
Have you ever visited a remote place, off the beaten track? Places in regions or locations so remote you are unlikely ever to meet another tourist? Perhaps you live in such an area?
This is the theme for this week’s Friendly Friday Photo Challenge.
‘Remote’
Perhaps the prompt, “Remote” means something entirely different for you.
This week’s prompt was inspired by Chris from the blog lifeofrileyow.com who is currently travelling to the very remote regions of North western and Central North Australia.
Let’s share some remote photos from around the world on Friendly Friday!
Post a comment below and include our ping-back in your post, so I can find your entry.
This photography challenge is posted every Friday by
Amanda from Something to Ponder About, and
Snow from The Snow Melts Somewhere.
Scroll down to find further instructions on how to join in with Friendly Friday .
Join the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge
- Publish a ‘Friendly Friday – ‘Remote,’ post and include a URL link to this post, tagging your post, ‘Friendly Friday’.
- Include the Photo Challenge logo, if you wish.
- Copy the URL for your published Friendly Friday post, in the comments below, so other readers can visit your blog.
- Enjoy seeing other Friendly Friday participant’s entries by following the links. It’s fun!
- Follow the blogs to see future prompts.
Please note we do not have deadlines for any Friendly Friday challenge.
I forgot it was Friday! 😅 (TGIF!) Happy weekend to you and MOTH (and the grown babes)
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Lol! Thank you. TGIF – does anyone use that English expression in Finland?
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Not really! Can’t think of anything similar in Finnish
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So it is not a Finnish concept to look forward to the weekend?
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Everyone looks forward to it but we just say ”have a good weekend”, that’s it! No catchy phrases or abbreviations 😁
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You will have to introduce an Aussie idiom to them!
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Beautiful images, and yes the Highlands of Scotland I have stood and felt like I was the only one in the universe..
Enjoy your weekend 🙂
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Scotland! A bit like Norway in some parts perhaps?
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Yes the Highlands especially 😊
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That makes Scottish highlands much more attractive to me.
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On my other gardening blog you can find more views in you type into the search bar on the right Scotland, Here is just one post..https://wp.me/p6blTP-tl
Enjoy the views 🙂
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Thank you Sue, I will take a look at it.
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Love that photo of you in Norway, you look so free Amanda. I love discovering remote places like this. Great theme 😉
Happy Friday
https://amindfultraveler.com/2019/08/16/friendly-friday-photo-challenge-remote/
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That day I stood overlooking the mountains on the top of the world at the border of Norway and Sweden with my good friends, will remain in my memory for ever. As you know, I have a deep connection with Scandinavia and I was really in the elements that I love so much. I wonder why remote places give us a sense of freedom?
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It’s such a strong connection for you and I can understand the importance of that photo.
I’m not sure either! Wonder if it is the solitude and having it all to oneself 🤷♀️
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Perhaps it is very calming for the spirit to be rid of all the noise and distractions of city life, Lorelle? Being in nature is very restorative!
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I agree Amanda. It grounds us.
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P.S. Excellent photos too, Lorelle! I wonder if you have a SLR camera or point and shoot?
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Thank you 🙏🏼 😊
No SLR. All taken on my iPhone.
Though it will be interesting as my daughter progresses with her passion for photography and we do end up with a digital SLR!
Maybe she will teach me something 😉
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iPhone takes great photos!
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It sure does. I love it. 👍🏼
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Remoteness also to be found in the middle of our busy and crazy towns, quite unexpectedly usually like in my post here:
https://urbansimulator.wordpress.com/2019/08/16/remote-friday/
Great topic and really one of my favourite ones 🙂👍🥳
Nice weekend!
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I am so glad you like the topic this week, Suburban tracks, but did you mean the abandoned or remote topic? The pingback here takes me to a beautiful post on Abandoned places in Bavaria, which I was very glad to read.
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Please note that it would be much easier for me to write in my mother-tongue which is German. Using a foreign language means also to think in a different way than your daily life. Moreover, English words are used partially in a different manner by Indians or US-Americans what makes it not simpler for people like me. So your question regarding remote and abandoned is going in this direction for me, and I usually prefer a more poetical approach in this regard beyond the understanding of a dictionary. So I do not see any real contradiction respectively. Hope, this explains the matter for you.
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I am Australian, not American but understand what you meant about language. I was only referring to the different themes we have each week on “Friendly Friday”
This week is REMOTE and last time was ABANDONED.
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Lovely shots Amanda. Norway looks a wonderfully remote and beautiful place.
https://wordpress.com/post/deathbyshyness.wordpress.com/16977
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Thanks ever so much, Klodo. Norway is – well where do I start. So close to my heart and fantastic. Really spectacular. Many people and even marketing sells New Zealand as being the southern version of Norway, but I disagree with that proposal. Can you check your pingback for me, as my computer is sending me to redawgTs’s blog – maybe I have been hacked?
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One day I will get these links right!
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It is all good, Klodo. Mistakes are how we learn. We all make them, and we are always learning. I have copied and pasted wrong links before. No dramas at all.
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This link here takes me to the right post: https://deathbyshyness.wordpress.com/2019/08/16/friendly-friday-photo-challenge-remote/
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Thanks!
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You know we love to go remote.
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Reblogged this on All About Writing and more.
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BTW, Amanda, might you have any photos of remote Greenland? Asking for a real estate friend. 😉
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No. I don’t have any of Greenland, sorry! That is still on my wishlist. But I have loads of Iceland.
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Your photos really exude the sense of remoteness. Here is my Friendly Friday piece from remote Slovenia. Remote if you are in Australia, that is. 🙂 Welcome to the mountains.
https://manjameximoving.wordpress.com/2019/08/16/remote-friendly-friday/
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The post worked if you felt that sense of isolation and remoteness. I wanted to find something from remote Australia, but had no digital copy to share. Perhaps Chris Riley will provide that for me in her upcoming posts on her trip she is currently on.
I am excited at the prospect of visiting the Slovenian mountains. You know how I love that kind of country!
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I really hope you do one day!
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We shall make a plan to meet there in three years time?
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Ahhh, what a lovely proposition, Amanda! 🙂 I’m in favour! You name the preferred season. I’ll be there. 🙂
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Okay! It is a deal!
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So pleased you have joined us again, Drake!
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Beautiful selection and photos!
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Awesome Maria. I am so glad you liked the collection I put together.
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I hope my contribution is remote enough. In geographical terms it’s not too far from civilisation. But it certainly feels it when you’re there. https://margaret21.com/2019/08/17/two-reservoirs-the-back-of-beyond/
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Your contribution can be just as you would have liked it to be, Margaret
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I thought that would be your take on it! I’m enjoying following your blog too.
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🙂 Thank you Margaret. That means a lot.
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you spend beautiful views wonderfully
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Thank you 365!
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Thanks for being a regular contributor, Graham. I will head over for a look now.
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Lovely contribution and really remote!!
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Here’s my remote contribution:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2019/08/17/friendly-friday-remote/
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Here is my submission for the week https://musinwithsusan.com/2019/08/17/friendly-friday-remote/
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Incredible photography, Susan. What kind of lens did you use? Was it a long exposure?
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Thank you, Amanda.It was an Olympus 40-150 with f2.8 with MC 1.4 teleconverter. Not a long exposure; 1/250 f5.6 ISO 800. Here is a link to my blog post about the day http://musinwithsusan.com/2017/08/21/my-solar-eclipse-experience/
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Thank you. I can tell you are an experienced SLR photographer! I will check out your link.
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Sure do appreciate the kudos. I’m actually a serious hobbyist and my camera is an Olympus micro 4/3.
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Alright – so you may have some good tips for the rest of us amateurs then!!
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This challenge made me realise I need to go somewhere remote soon 🙂
Here is my take, a bit different from my usual
https://photographias.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/friendly-friday-challenge-remote/
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I am glad it inspired you to travel for photography and maybe vacation reasons too, Sophia. I will take a look at your link tomorrow. Have a busy day and evening ahead of me first. Thanks for joining in.
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Hi there just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The words
in your post seem to be running off the screen in Ie. I’m not sure if this is a format issue or something to do with internet
browser compatibility but I figured I’d post to let you know.
The design and style look great though! Hope you get the issue solved
soon. Kudos I have been surfing online more than 2 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.
It’s pretty worth enough for me. In my view, if all web owners and
bloggers made good content as you did, the net will be
a lot more useful than ever before. Does your website have a contact
page? I’m having trouble locating it but, I’d like to shoot
you an e-mail. I’ve got some ideas for your blog you might be
interested in hearing. Either way, great site and I look forward to seeing it improve over time.
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This one was irresistible, Amanda! Thank you for lovely shots from Scandinavia as well! https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2019/08/19/friendly-friday-photo-challenge-remote/
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So happy you can join in despite your own busy schedule of challenges
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Oh, I do try! Don’t always succeed though…Summer is a busy time, and we have no connection in the summer house. Thanks for the lovely challenges!
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It works well to be off the grid at times. Forced relaxation and reflection!!
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So enjoyed your images of remote
My bit of remoteness Amanda
http://bushboy.blog/2019/08/20/being-there/
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You are well positioned for posting a remote themed post! The rusty corrugated iron roof and the long view of low to medium hills speaks a lot about Australia and typical of our varied environment. Would you share the location of the hut or the mountains?
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The old hut is on the road to The Gorge on the Clarence River just up the road from my place. Not sure of the mountain range in the distance perhaps the Gibraltar Range. So glad you liked that image Amanda. It was quite like yours.
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Yes similar – mine was from Uki – northern NSW so not too far away from yours!!
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Just up the road 🙂
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Indeed
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Great captures! each one unique in it’s own way…Here’s mine – hope it fits in your theme – https://myheart2heart.blog/2019/08/23/in-a-long-distance-relationship/
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The heart does ache when one is separated from our children. Thank goodness technology brings us closer.
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So true! Thank you so much 😊
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I don’t really live in a remote region but love the fact that I can hike sometimes and see no one for 6 hours.. 😉
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You are indeed lucky
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I hadn’t forgotten Amanda, just a bit pre-occupied with other things for a while. I could easily have posted a photo from our current trip, but that would have been cheating as far as the most remote place I’ve ever been. Here’s my rather belated post on, ‘remote’. http://lifeofrileyow.com/2019/09/10/friendly-friday-remote/
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Not cheating at all, Chris! I was inspired by your recent trip to use that as a topic. Nevertheless, I was very interested to read about the remote cattle station in the Gulf! What an experience. I doubt I could cope with that level of isolation! I am so dependent on being able to summon help or call someone or get something. And the roads! It is wonderful that there are folk who enjoy this lifestyle but it isn’t for me. It is sad that a country such as ours could not do better for folks who choose this lifestyle, in terms of communication. Then again, we all coped without mobile phones for many a year, perfectly adequately. Thanks for your contribution. No trouble at all on the time frame. Your posts are always welcome! Thanks ever so much for joining in. Very interesting post.
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