📸 Bonus prompt 2 for #mbapr, unputdownable, suggested by @jimmitchell

(Same boy as in the last photo, but about 5 years younger. He’s still this age, trapped in a teenage body right now. LOL)

📸 Bonus prompt 1 for #mbapr, bubble, suggested by @paulrobertlloyd

A smiling person is holding a large, fluffy gray cat over their shoulder, indoors, with home decor in the background.

📷 #mbApr Day +2 (32)

Unputdownable

A Kobo e-reader displaying a comic on its screen, placed on a desk with a laptop, and various small items.

📷 Day32 : unputdownable (Jim / @jimmitchell)





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Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock and Soul - the original edition looking battered and bruised and a comparatively pristine newer version

📷 photoblogging challenge #mbapr - unputdownable

Somewhat negated by the fact that I have clearly put them down on the floor for the photo, but I think this might be the only book I’ve got two copies of - Dave Marsh’s The Heart of Rock and Soul

📷 #mbApr Bonus Day 31 - Unputdownable
My granddaughter, Jolene, named after the Dolly Parton song (note: I eventually did, in fact, put her down. She is a teenager now.)

A digital wristwatch displays time on a person's arm, with a background hinting at a casual indoor setting. Spanish: Un reloj digital muestra la hora en el brazo de una persona, con un fondo que insinúa un ambiente interior informal. Basque: Erloju digital batek denbora erakusten du pertsona baten besoan, atzealdea lasai barrualdeko giroa iradokitzen duena.

Day 30++: unputdownable #mbapr I have a few other watches and I always come back to this one.

A large whimsical building screen on the Sphere in Las Vegas depicts eyes, set against a clear sky with active city streets and vehicles below.

📷 #mbApr Day +1

Kinda like a massive structural bubble.

A plate of cheese and bread with a beer bottle and glass sits on an outdoor table, traditional stone houses against a backdrop of green hills and a blue sky. Spanish: Un plato de queso y pan con una botella de cerveza y vaso están sobre una mesa al aire libre, casas de piedra tradicionales contra un telón de fondo de colinas verdes y cielo azul. Basque: Gazta eta ogi plater bat garagardo botila eta begikoa mahai baten gainean dago, atzean etxe harritsu tradizionalak, berde koloreko muinoak eta zeru urdin bat dituela.

Day 30+: bubble #mbapr This is Amaiur, my vacation bubble. There’s bubbles in the beer, too.

📷 #mbApr Bonus Day 31 - Bubble
At the North Carolina Dogwood Festival in Fayetteville

Close-up of bubbles in liquid with reflections and a blurred orange background.

📷 Day31 : bubble (@paulrobertlloyd)





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Neon-lit theater marquee at night reads “IONIA THEATRE” with “WELCOME HOME BILLY STRINGS” on a lower sign, flanked by street lights and a pedestrian sidewalk.

📷 #mbApr Day 30

When I think of my hometown it’s this image of the local theater along our red brick Main Street that comes to mind. (Image credit: Billy Strings)

📸 Day 30 #mbapr #photochallenge: hometown


I’ve lived all over the world, but I carry around my hometown St Louis in my heart wherever I go.

📸 Day 29 #mbapr #photochallenge: drift

I had a very mild looking version of this same car about 20 years ago that I would sometimes drift… usually inadvertently whenever it snowed 😜

April Photoblogging Challenge Day 30: Hometown 📸 #mbapr
I come from a land of strip malls and wildfires

A person stands in the water near a shoreline, facing away from the camera. They are wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a patterned skirt, and a blue shawl draped over their shoulders. Beside them is a tall, slender pillar.

📷 Day30 : hometown (matt / @mattypenny)





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Sun with halo phenomenon over the sea, flanked by two faint sun dogs, at coastline during twilight. Spanish: Sol con fenómeno de halo sobre el mar, flanqueado por dos parhelios tenues, en la costa durante el crepúsculo. Basque: Eguzkia halo fenomenoarekin itsasoaren gainean, bi izpi ahul albo batean, kostaldean ilunabarrean.

Day 30: hometown #mbapr

This is the town I now live in, not actually my hometown. But I don’t have a proper one and I wanted to show you this picture.

Lush jungle mountainside with various buildings popping out and a winding road twisting through, switchbacking up the mountain

Day 30: 📷 hometown (@mattypenny) #mbApr

I am literally 9,788 kilometers from my hometown, but this community clinging to the side of the mountain at the northern tip of Taiwan is home to many, and a sight to behold! 😍

a photo of a red ford sierra car parked on a drive in 1985

Day 30: hometown #mbapr

Scan of a photo of my first house taken in 1985, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷

📷 #mbApr Day 30 - Hometown
Fayetteville, NC, The Hometown of the 82nd Airborne and Special Forces at Ft. Liberty (nee Ft. Bragg) - The quintessential military town. Barber Shops, boot repair, pawn shops, used car lots #photography

The Giant and Hobnob, used in processions since the 1500's

📷 #mbapr photo-blogging challenge - hometown

I’m not 100% sure whether this is the photo I took, but if not it’s very similar.

The Giant and Hobnob show the oddness of my hometown, I think

Person kayaking on a calm river, with lush green trees lining the banks under a blue sky with clouds.

📷 #mbApr Day 29

Can’t wait to drift back down this river. Soon enough!

a drift of crocuses...possibly

📷 #mbapr photo-blogging challenge - drift

I’ve got a vague feeling I’ve seen flowers like this described as a ‘drift’…bit perhaps that’s just snowdrops

Day 29: drift #mbapr

This is the closest I’ve got in my photo roll.

Just realised my Day 28 didn’t go through, so here it is a lil late!
April Photoblogging Challenge Day 28: Community 📸 #mbapr
Long Beach Aquarium, 2015

April Photoblogging Challenge Day 29: Drift 📸 #mbapr
Ruby Beach, 2018.

a photo of a woman drifting in a pool on a float

Day 29: drift #mbapr

Sony a6300, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2024 📷

A large white structure topped with a hexagonal roof. The bright reflection makes it feel really hot. Above the building are a few wispy strands of cloud

Day 29: 📷 drift (@SimonWoods) #mbApr

After days of rain and cloud on this #Taiwan trip, we got a perfectly clear 34ºC day with just this little wisp of cloud drifting above the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall

A person in a red shirt and blue traditional hat sitting at the front of a wooden boat on a river, with vegetation and buildings in the background.

📷 Day29 : drift (Simon / @SimonWoods)





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Statue of Peter Pan at Kensington Gardens, London, UK

For x number of years, my #hometown has this statue in one of their gardens. I moved already. :)

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