Way back in June 2009, I started posting a photo most Sundays. There was no specific reason, but I often found I had just one photograph I had taken, which either summed up my week, really caught my attention, made me smile – WHATEVER. It was often something I could post which needed no words at all. The picture alone didn’t need the words because it said all that could be said.
Hence “Silent Sunday”.
So I continued, trying to avoid using words. Sometimes I find that words can clutter a photograph. Sometimes I want to look at a photograph, and make up my own mind about it, what I think about it, rather than what others might think it should be about. I guess I was thinking, when you go to a museum or art gallery, more often than not the art is just there for you to look at, and not be distracted by a great deal of text.
Plus, I often find pictures all the more interesting without words; perhaps I like to give my imagination the freedom it wants. I look back on my early posts, and I know my thoughts have changed completely on the photo, because they have been given the freedom to do so. I wonder now, what was happening? Perhaps it was this? Why choose that? I like this idea…I prefer that thought…
And so, after a year and a half, here in November 2010, I finally open the doors to Silent Sunday, and ask you to join in. your photo…blog your photo… your photo…blimey you could even twitpic your photo, of anything you like. Add the badge below to your blog or post or wherever so people know where to check for everyone else’s Silent Sunday posts (if you want a bigger badge, just holler), and put your link in the Linky, found in my posts when they go live.
The rules are so easy it’s crazy.
You use just one photo in your post.
You must have taken the picture – you cannot use something you found on the internet or a photo that belongs to someone else (*ahem* COPYRIGHT *ahem*).
Use a photo taken in the week leading up to your post.
You don’t have to do it every week.
It’s Silent, isn’t it? So please, please, please… no words in the post OR the title.
We’ve been going a few months and I’m listening to “the people”…so I’m also being strict. If you can’t meet the above, then expect your post to be removed from the Linky you submit to. It’s only fair on those making a fantastic effort. And you should make an effort for your photo; make it something worthwhile to you. Try not to post a picture just for the sake of getting on the linky; the feedback so far has been that the photos that mean something to poster really jump out at the reader too. A new Linky goes live every week with my own Silent Sunday post.
So.
Can you make your picture “speak” without any words at all?
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Still don’t get it? Then you need to read this.
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UPDATED 11/09/11:
THE LINKY IS NO MORE. PLEASE READ THIS POST…and thank you for your support over the year. It’s been…different… 
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