Sun Voyager (Sólfar), Reykjavik, September 2018
This striking stainless steel sculpture sits on the waterfront in Reykjavik, promising its viewers a dream of undiscovered territory, hope, progress and freedom.
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Thanks to everyone who brought us some blue last week – it was great to see so many shades and origins, from plants, through sky and sea, to tiles, sculptures, feet and even hair! Following a recent big birthday, I wondered if it was time for a blue tint, and Geriatrix has shown me an alternative way of tackling that! And Brian brought us some blue music, in addition to his natural blues.
If you didn’t have chance to check them out, the links are below.
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Aletta at Now at Home
Alice at The 59 Club
Brian at Bushboy’s World
Carol at Light Words
Cee’s Photography
Chateaux des Fleurs
Chosen Perspectives
Daily Musings
David Meredith’s Photo Blog
Dawn at Lingering Visions
Eklastic at Pictures Imperfect
Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery
Heart to Heart
Irene at Heaven’s Sunshine
Jackie at JunkBoat Travels
Jason at Proscenium
Jesh Studio
Maria at Kamerapromenader
Laura at PoetryPix
Little Pieces of Me
Nicole at Une photo, un poème
Photo Robert’s Blog
Pics by Kaz
Sandy at Out of My Write Mind
Su Leslie at Zimmerbitch
Sue at Words Visual
Next week’s theme will be night – I look forward to seeing your interpretation of this word – will it be sleepless nights, illuminated nights, dark nights, white nights, …?
Other forthcoming themes are listed here, and to see previous weeks of this challenge, click here
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 27 January 2019
Posted as part of One Word Sunday
Travel with Intent 
An awe-inspiring sculpture and post, Deb! For some reason, it made me think of Disney’s Moana.
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Not a Disney film I kne,w, but having googled it I see the connection that you spotted.
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Debbie, While my response could qualify as “voyage”, the sculpture in the photo is supposed to be evocative of flight, the reality it is that the visual of your photo that made me think of this:https://wp.me/p2owKx-14T and so that is my response for the week. Great photos and sculpture.
Cheers, Amy
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It works well for me – the dreamy nature and being positioned in the sea definitely suggest voyage.
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Beautiful sculpture! This was an appropriate theme for me, having just returned from a trip to the Middle East! https://amoralegria.com/2019/01/30/one-word-sunday-voyager/
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Hi Debbie, I like your photo. I wasn’t sure if I hd anything for this week or not,
I hope you like my choices.
https://ceenphotography.com/2019/01/30/one-word-sunday-voyager/
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I love them!
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Lovely capture! here’s my voyage – https://myheart2heart.blog/2019/01/28/me-the-voyager/
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modern art
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I’ve often wondered if there’s an element of whaling in that sculpture.
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2019/01/27/voyagers/
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You mean the boat inspired to some extent by whaling boats?
That could be true, even unintentionally. It is certainly supposed to be based on a ship bound to explore, to find the good, influenced to some extent by the theory that Icelanders saled in from Mongolia.
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I’ve always thought that the down curving centre section resembled ribs rather than oars.
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Oh, I see what you mean. That is certainly possible.
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A perfectly multifaceted image, and both primitively and modernly shaped too!
Here’s mine for One Word Sunday
https://wp.me/p9EWyp-wA
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It looks primitive and modern at the same time – love your angles you took for this sculpture! At the “right” time, so you had also reflections of the puddle – perfectly multifaceted!
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That is such a sleek, beautiful sculpture! Here is my voyage: https://outofmywritemind.com/2019/01/27/land-voyage/
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That is a wonderful sculpture – and the Icelanders all came from Norway in such boats. Except they were made of wood and were very much more able ships…
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Yes that old wooden structure clearly inspired them well.
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I so admire artists to take out the very essence of things – Here the strength and the elegant structure of those ships.
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What a gorgeous sculpture!
https://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/2019/01/voyage.html
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Thanks for this theme as we voyage into the new week.
https://littlepiecesofme1.wordpress.com/2019/01/27/a-voyage-to-the-top/
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And you have shown a good journey – they don’t have to be miles long
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In my experience some of the hardest ones are the short ones
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that is stunning
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Oh, this is so beautiful and provoking “Fernweh” (we have a term for homesickness in German, Heimweh – and there is the opposite Fernweh which can only inadequately translated as wanderlust or yearning to see distant places, I think the romanticists coined the word). It’s with bashfulness that I present my very mundane offering: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2019/01/27/pack-up-your-troubles-in-the-old-car-boot/
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A great humorous post – excellent!
And thank you for your words on fernweh and heimweh – I love learning things like that. Might well inspire a post for me 🙂
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What an inspiring sculpture, wonderful.
I’ve managed voyage colours, but don’t think my journeys will be as dramatic as yours https://beckybofwinchester.com/2019/01/27/one-word-sunday/
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I love your voyage image, Becky. It gives our imaginations plenty of drama.
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Thanks Debbie 🙂
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A very striking sculpture
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Reykjavik was good at providing arty surprises along its streets
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😊
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Here is Voyager 2
http://bushboy.blog/2019/01/27/voyager-2/
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Here is Voyager 1
http://bushboy.blog/2019/01/27/voyager-1/
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Wow. What an incredible structure. It’s so abstract, yet talks of adventure.
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And with both rain and sunshine, it looked extra sea-faring
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