When I was exploring Charleston, South Carolina earlier this week, my friend and I took a wrong turn and ended up in what looked like an overgrown garden. As we tried to find our way back to the street, we spotted this hidden graveyard peeping out through the lush foliage.
Still in South Carolina, boating through a swamp, there were a couple of hidden onlookers skulking off in the distance.
I was thrilled to discover a hidden bamboo forest in Rye, New York.
And finally, a piece of the Berlin Wall hiding in plain sight in the middle of Manhattan.
Now over to you for your stealthiest, undercover photos. If you would like to join in this week’s travel theme (everyone’s welcome!) here’s what to do:
- Create your own post and title it Travel theme: Hidden
- Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
- Get your post in by next Thursday, as the new travel theme comes out on Friday
- Don’t forget to subscribe to keep up to date on the latest weekly travel themes. Sign up via the email subscription link in the sidebar or RSS – I’m in the process of changing over to a new website host but will give you all a heads up when the changeover happens. If you’re following via email there won’t be a change but if you’re following via WordPress you will need to sign up for email or RSS.
Can’t wait to see what you reveal for this week’s challenge.
xxx Ailsa
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.” – Pablo Picasso
“Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.” – David Guterson
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love the hidden graveyard, don’t love the skulking alligator (how well camouflaged is he?). Off to seek some hidden gems now… see you later 😉
Jude xx
Oh, fab, love your idea and images….now I have to see what I might have skulking…..
I love your blog
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I quite enjoyed that bamboo forest one. Is that somewhere in the middle of the city ( I know not on Manhattan)?
This mountain temple was ‘hidden’ until only about a month ago, when I finally found out what it was.
http://pathsunwritten.com/2013/09/06/travel-theme-hidden/
Wow, what an interesting theme! I’ll have to see if I can find anything for it.
Love the hidden graveyard.
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OK I’m back with some images of one of my favourite hidden places in Paris
http://smallbluegreenfotos.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/travel-theme-hidden/
Jude xx
Interesting prompt, Ailsa! And must admit that swamp looks like a scary place to me…though the photo is impressive!
Here’s my entry: http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/travel-theme-hidden/
Hi Ailsa, I just could not resist this quick one- Loch Ness and the Monster… (an old family joke…) http://vosperdruiter.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/hidden-ailsas-travel-theme/
omgee.. the crocodile …
Hi Ailsa, and friends.
Today I started a brandnew blog only for this kind of challenges.
Here’s my entry for “hidden”,
http://lanterfanteren.blogspot.be/2013/09/hidden.html
Hope you like my approach.
Have a nice day
Dauw
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Hi Ailsa! Here’s my early entry for this week. Have a great weekend! http://momentsinyourlife.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/travel-theme-hidden/
Oh my goodness……you were actually boating in a swamp!!? With such creatures lurking there?!Oh! child of grace…..
Loved all the photographs. Is it really an alligator? I thought it is a rock then noticed it’s eye. Really wonderful pics.
How about showing you something of Dublin… Ireland’s little hidden treasure? 😉
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I loved the hidden graveyard as well. I will have to sort through my photo archives to see if I have enough to enter this challenge. I do like the idea, just not sure what I have to offer.
Enjoyed the pictures. Even loved the lurking beast!
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I love the Spanish Moss in SC
Fab photos, as usual. The graveyard is definitely a story waiting to happen …
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Tried to hide from this week’s theme, but just couldn’t do it, so here it is:
http://ronmayhewphotography.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/hidden/
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Great shots, Ailsa – and a terrific challenge. Hopefully I’ll be able to participate this week … after I’ve moved into the new flat 🙂
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Hi Ailsa … My travel theme
https://alienshores52.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/travel-theme-hidden/
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My image this week was taken by my husband in Alaska. Getting to see whales bubble-netting is a fairly rare sight, so thought it would fit into the “Hidden” theme.
http://sherresartzone.com/
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What is hidden in the Happiest Place on Earth?
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Magical photos, Ailsa! The bamboo and graveyard are beautiful.
Here’s my tiny contribution: http://drieskewrites.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/travel-theme-hidden/
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This week I travel back to a sad memory of a culture that has been denied and hidden for a long time. http://memoriesaremadeofthisblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/travel-theme-hidden
I do so love an old cemetery and force all my visitors to Highgate when staying with me. Why is the Berlin wall in NYC?????
Anyway, here’s mine:
Haven’t you ever heard that NYC has everything? 😉
yes but the Berlin wall????
Great shots! Love the theme 🙂
Superb picture of alligator – and bamboo,and graveyard seems straight out of that area! http://teawithapirate.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/travel-theme-hidden/
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