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Posted on June 16, 2020 by smkelly8

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Hutong

Posted on September 17, 2019 by smkelly8

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A busy, traditional hutong

Thursday Door Challenge

Posted on May 31, 2019 by smkelly8

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Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing it, between Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American Eastern Time).

Beer, Juice, Tea!

Posted on March 27, 2019 by smkelly8

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A tiny bar on a street not far from Qianmen in a district with lots of hostels.

School Girl

Posted on March 25, 2019 by smkelly8

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Such bright colors. This girls is coming home from school.

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Engines

Posted on December 21, 2018 by smkelly8

Each week Cee challenges bloggers to share black and white photos based on a theme. This week she’s challenging us to share black and white photos of things with engines or motors. I dug up this photo of the vehicles used in parts of Beijing.

For more black and white photos, click here.

Take Me for a Ride

Posted on November 12, 2018 by smkelly8

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A rickshaw awaiting its driver in the southwest hustings.

November CDP Theme Day: Friends

Posted on November 3, 2018 by smkelly8

This month’s theme is friends or friendship so I’m sharing this painting a hutong neighborhood, where friends gather all the time. That’s a big reason I’m draw to the hutongs, so much conviviality.

If you’d like to see more CDP friendly photos, click here.

Neighborhood Shop

Posted on August 8, 2018 by smkelly8

WPC: All-Time Favorites

Posted on May 31, 2018 by smkelly8

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So WordPress is ending this fun, community-building, delightful challenge. They haven’t given a reason why, which is disappointing. I loved getting a new theme to inspire me and to get a chance to see how others had responded. I connected with other bloggers and I’ll sorely missed that.

It makes sense if an individual’s life changes and they must end a weekly challenge, but WordPress is a viable, successful company. If they want to hire me to handle this, I’m game. It wouldn’t be pricey.

Perhaps an individual with loads of followers will fill the gap, but it’s a commitment. I’ll follow if someone does.

I’ll be in shock for quite a while. What a shame WP. You didn’t have to go this route.
How sad.

I hope that this is like the “New Coke” fiasco and that they do resume this challenge. Again, I’d be happy to freelance as their new WPC Creator.

1. Each week, WordPress will provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Wednesday when the next photo theme will be announced.

~~2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.~~

3. Follow The Daily Post so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements, and subscribe to our newsletter – we’ll highlight great posts. Add Media photos from each month’s most popular challenge.