WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: FOREIGN

The word for the new WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE on the Daily Post  is “foreign”.  Here’s how they set up the challenge.

“While foreign (rightly so) often brings up images of things outside of your own nation, it can also apply to things outside of or different from your normal environment, or even something which is out of place in general. I’m sure you’ll be able to find some great examples of this.  

Share a picture which means FOREIGN to you! “

With all the travel photos I have taken, my first reaction was … “no-brainer”! While I was browsing through my travel photos, there was constant news coverage in the background about Hurricane Sandy.

I can’t keep my mind off the devastation this storm has already brought and the potential for so much more. It’s impossible to stop considering how nature can be so fickle:

beautiful so much of the time, like last week from our balcony,

and, at other times, the ugliest of ugly … whether it be a few horrific seconds of an earthquake or mudslide or terrifying hours/days of fires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, typhoons and the like or the ongoing suffering of famine caused by drought.

All of that ugliness is so foreign to many of us who live in seemingly safe parts of the world. Here in Toronto we’re told we will have some high winds and above-average rainfall caused by Hurricane Sandy. No biggie. We are fortunate.

Here’s the calm before our storm taken from our balcony a few moments ago. The masts are down and the boats are stored for winter, as of last week – that was good timing.

Hurricane Sandy is a different type of foreign than I was considering at first and certainly fits this part of this week’s challenge definition: “it can also apply to things outside of or different from your normal environment, or even something which is out of place in general.”

Hurricane Sandy is a force of nature frighteningly foreign to millions of the people it is affecting. If you are one of those, we wish you and yours safe passage through the storm and the opportunity to help others. Let us all  keep those in less fortunate locations in our hearts and thoughts and hope the storm somehow loses steam sooner than later.

Have you ever been caught in one of nature’s ugliest moments? What was your experience? How are you being affected by Hurricane Sandy? How do we come to terms within ourselves when we witness these types of experiences over which we have no control? 

See what “foreign” means on these fab websites:

http://artistisk.com/

http://klaasp.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/weekly-photo-challenge-foreign/

http://hb303.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/weekly-photo-challenge-foreign/

 

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