The weekly photo challenge is containers. Here are a few of my favorite containers from our recent trip to Ecuador.
Bahia Caraquez was building a new apartment complex…then the mudslides and earthquake hit. Now, it’s been abandoned.
What do these pinatas contain?
This pen contains a whale of a tale.
A wall in Cuenca contains ancient artifacts.
The Quito sculpture contains cute kids.
The botanical garden pitcher plants know how to store their water.
Finally, this dormant volcano stores fluorescent water.
I’m trying a new way to post my Weekly Photo Challenge on the WordPress Daily Post. Before I had any pictures uploaded, I had 3 likes? What’s up with that? They were liking a blank page. Crazy.
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Brilliant post
you have a lovely list of interesting photos!
A fascinating gallery Debbie! The solitary skull and the Cuenca wall grabbed me 🙂
Madhu, when I peeked in the big pot, I was really surprised to see the skull. Thanks for leaving a comment.
Inspired and wonderful pictures. Thank you
Awww..thanks.
Our “like” is not an anticipatory “like”. We really liked the selection and are so glad you “liked” your visit to the Mitad del Mundo (middle of the world.)
Haha! I “like” that you crack me up. 🙂
Love the volcano shot and of course the little girl. Still out of town and little time to write or comment. Yes, some are serial likers and not readers.
Serial likers. Funny, and so true.
ha! those instant likes probably came through via reader..
the pingbacks are irritating and are a bit like cheating.. why would someone spotlight a post if they’ve not even looked at it? …. because many times the pingback draws more people to their site and runs their stats higher….
i loved seeing so many familiar images, and i was pleasantly surprised when they all loaded..( i am still having trouble loading a ‘new post’ page! ) (i’ve sent this about five times, and each time it bounced to a blank page… if there are more than one, please trash them! )
Z, how do instant likes come through via reader? Don’t you have to actually look at the post to like it? And, that’s why I always trash the ping-backs. Thanks for commenting. 🙂
last shot is very very kewl 🙂
Glad you liked it. It was an amazing crater lake and the water was really a fluorescent blue/green.
yeah simply an amazing place 🙂
Love your containers for this weeks entry Debbie! I’m thinking about what I will use for my entry right now. 🙂 how did you do your post? I’m curious what your new entry method is!
Ok, Nicole. I hate to admit that I’ve been trying to be first on the photo challenges, but it’s never happened. I had everything all ready to go when the post came in…then my little puppy had to go out and pee. 🙂 Anyway, this is my crazy way of thinking. They’ve changed the Daily Post and hidden the comments. I used to post a comment, then when my post was ready, I’d reply to my comment. But, now, it seems like more people go to the bottom of the page and click directly on the blogs. It really is much easier. That way, you don’t have to go through all the comments. Plus, the ping backs turn orange, so you know which blogs you’ve looked at. So, last night, I was thinking how I could get my ping back to show up first at the bottom of the page. Silly, I know…but it was a challenge for me and I like challenges. So, I wrote the title of my post, then these words…”I’m working on a new method of posting my weekly photo challenge. Check back in a few minutes if you don’t see my post.” When the challenge arrived, I included a link to the Daily Post, put the word Container in my title, and published it. Blank page, no pictures. I got 3 likes on my blank page. Jeje. Then, I could go back and edit my post, include my photos and update my post. Crazy…I know. You’re probably laughing, but sometimes when there are a huge number of blogs for the challenge, my post gets lost in the middle somewhere. It’s really fine if you laugh. I’ve been experimenting with a lot of new technology lately. I think it keeps my mind stimulated. 🙂
Very creative thinking, Debbie!
No I don’t think that is crazy! It is funny how some of the challenges work. Sometimes I get tons of likes and other times hardly any yet my entries are always very similar. 🙂
pretty cool shots
Thanks, Naveen.
Yeah… It seems like some people just like in the hope to get a click. In my case it sometimes happens, that a post having more then 1000 words gets a like 10 seconds after I posted it. But my number of clicks I get on my blog did not even increase…
I know what you mean. 🙂 Here’s another thing that bugs the heck out of me…the ping backs. I always trash them. Bloggers make a list of the ping backs on their blogs, and my ‘likes’ never increase. They don’t even bother to look at my post.
I have experienced that, too. Unless someone sends me a personal comment that they have re-blogged my post, I don’t even bother to check.