Foto Flip Friday: Follow Your Dreams (Submit Week 2)
Welcome to the 2nd week (with more samples to inspire you!) of June’s Foto Flip Friday theme: Follow Your Dreams
A fun little photo competition where you can submit a photo, and I’ll select up to 3 each month to be whittled into a flipping photo and displayed here the last week of the month, like so:
(mouseover the image and watch the *magic!)
* Well o.k. for those viewing in IE, not so much a magical “flip” as a fading change. If you want to see the flip/flop, try viewing in Chrome or Firefox.
Imagine that – the chance for YOUR photo, happily flipping to ‘n fro here – with YOUR personal message on the back!
PLUS… for those who like – a link back to your website/blog (a reciprocal link back here to TravelnLass not required, but nonetheless appreciated) 😉
All you need do to participate in the new TravelnLass monthly Foto Flip Friday competition is:
- Choose a pic (that YOU have taken!) that fits this month’s theme – one that’s in “landscape” orientation (to fit the “postcard” profile). Make sure it’s at least 700 pixels wide and in .jpg format. The pic needn’t be fabulous nor professional quality (mine surely aren’t!), but do choose one that showcases your best work (a bit of postprocessing is fine).
- Upload your photo to the Web (in a blog post, on Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, Instagram, Picasa, etc. – many options for photo hosting – just make sure wherever you put it, the privacy is set to “public”), and then…
- In the comments below, post a link to your photo, plus…
- A short (no more than 10 – 15 words) “postcard” message of the story behind the photo/why it fits the theme, and whatever name you want as a signature. This I will put on the flip side of the winning postcard(s).
- Also include a short (1-3 short words) title (where the photo was taken or some such) that you want on the postcard front, plus a link to your website if you like.
- The winning postcard(s) will remain displayed for the last week each month, and the following Friday I will launch a new theme. All the winning entries will be archived so you can view them any time.
This is the 2nd week of submissions for this month, and already we have some real stunners.
This month’s theme is…
FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS
e.g. any pic that you’ve taken that inspires you to follow your dreams (be they travel, or career, or art, hobby, sport, or whatever), *or an image (like me on that camel in the sample above) that shows you gleefully enjoying your dream-come-true.
* Note: though normally your photo must be one that YOU took – for this “Follow Your Dreams” theme, we’ll let you slide if YOU are in the pic – and thus obviously didn’t have your finger on the shutter.
Not sure what photo you have that will fit the theme?
Here’s a couple more examples of what “Follow Your Dreams” might mean to you…
You can also view last week’s samples HERE.
Submissions for this month’s theme will remain open another week. So submit your photo (one per person/website) for the June theme via the comments below, anytime during the next week (til Friday, June 20th)
Note, photos submitted after the June 20 deadline, will NOT be considered.
Submissions will close next Friday night at midnight EST, so don’t delay. After submissions close, I’ll ponder all the entries and select up to 3 photos I fancy the most and whittle them into digital flipping postcards.
On Friday, the 27th of June, I’ll post the winner(s) here on TravelnLass where they will sweetly flip to and fro for all the World to see.
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Added bonus: The winners will be eligible to display a Foto Flip Friday Winner’s Badge on their site (linked back to their winning Flip Postcard here at TL), and…
ANYBODY that submits a photo (even if it’s not in the top 3) will get a link to their site beneath the winning postcards. |
Now get crackin’ – submit your photo… TODAY!
About the Author
Dyanne Off-the-beaten-path travel is my passion,and I’ve always lived life “like-a-kid-in-a-candy-store” – eager to sample as many flavors as I can. Indeed, my life motto has long been: This ain’t a dress rehearsal, folks!
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Off-the-beaten-path travel is my passion, and I’ve always lived life “like a kid in a candy store” – eager to sample as many flavors as I can. Indeed, my life motto has long been:
Trying again!
Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124757317@N04/
Title: Ziplining in Mexico
Message: Ziplining through the jungles of Mexico…check!
Website link: http://www.livedreamdiscover.com/
Nice one, Sarah! No doubt great fun, but… as for me (w/ a good gob of acrophobia), sadly, ziplining ain’t gonna happen. ;(
Then again – ya never know – maybe a leeeeeetle miniature zipline for toddlers! 😉
OK, lets see if I got it this time!
Title: Venice Water World
Message: Life is on the water here! Taxi’s, Fire boats, Police, Contractors, Ambulances, Deliveries, loved it!
Lovely Sue – brings back my (now dim) memories of my own visit to Venice with my 2 young daughters many years ago. The World is just so darn BIG, hard as I try – can’t see it all, much less return to places like Venice which I loved. Thanks for the walk-down-memory-lane.
I feel like an oddball because I’m not submitting a photo featuring an exotic destination!
What a wonderful idea — I’m so looking forward to seeing the winners! 🙂
Link: http://nocureforcuriosity.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/web-6955.jpg
Message: Following my dreams with my 3yo by discovering the world in our own backyard garden. Our first strawberry!
Title: My own backyard
Website link: http://nocureforcuriosity.net/2014/05/the-fruits-of-our-labor/
Wonderful, Laura! I love your interpretation of “Follow Your Dreams”. So true, dreams needn’t be grandiose exotic world travel. Even more precious – experiencing the magic of a first strawberry with your little one. Thanks for sharing!
The theme “Follow your dreams” describes exactly what my husband and I are doing as we are longterm travelers who ditched the “American dream” to make our own. There were so many photos to choose between but this one might say it best with the message:
“I never knew where my dreams of travel would take me until I followed them…”
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=321804067927351&set=a.338333626274395.82688.100002932800166&type=3&theater
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*HIGH FIVE* Anita! Yes indeed, I too favor the “World Dream” over the “American Dream” any day. 😉
Nice one (though it makes me dizzy just looking at it) 😉 Thanks for sharing a glimpse of your unique “Follow Your Dreams” odyssey.