Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted

Weekly Photo Challenge: DISTORTED - at first I had to think about several yoga positions,
then destroyed objects after an explosion, then I went off the grid again and had the choice
for this week: US-flag with distorted eagle - a reflection metaphor after 9/11: some
landmarks of history make our minds distorted ...

E = Eagle (on Samuel Huntington)
photo for the “weekly photo challenge” community of dailypost / wordpress – picture was shot by FrizzText, click on the image to enter his flickr photo collection…
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feel free to add in the comments the link to your own interpretation of this week’s topic DISTORTED

The 1818 version of the flag of the United Sta...

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related:
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http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/weekly-photo-challenge-distorted/
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links to the Weekly Photo Challenges 2012:
compare http://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/photo-challenges/
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JANUARY
1 – https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/weekly-photo-challenge-launch/ 74 faves
2 – https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/weekly-photo-challenge-peaceful/ 81 faves
3 – https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/weekly-photo-challenge-simple/ 68 faves
4 – https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/weekly-photo-challenge-hope/ 87 faves
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FEBRUARY
5 – https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/weekly-photo-challenge-ready/ 80 faves
6 – https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/weekly-photo-challenge-regret/ 91 faves
7 – https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/weekly-photo-challenge-down/ 102 faves
8 – https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/weekly-photo-challenge-indulge/ 92 faves
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MARCH
9 – DISTORTED / here …
link to the Weekly Photo Challenges 2011:
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/weekly-photo-challenges 2011
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About Didi van Frits

writer, photographer, guitarist, painter

62 responses to “Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted

  1. Nice concept! [and very well done!]

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  2. Very interesting way of combining various aspects of the concept of distorted…creative

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  3. Incredibly creative composition with the flag and the “distorted eagle” remnant after 9/11, Frizz. My heartiest congratulations. Are we still distorted from 09/11? Apparently so, if you listen to any of the debates this election season!

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    • read blogfrizz.wordpress.com/huntington-en/ (English) or blogfrizz.wordpress.com/huntington-de/ (German)
      I hope this assemblage will give a sign for September eleven discussions: that something went wrong in the USA…
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      [once Paul McCartney sang: “take your broken wings and learn to fly”]
      raindrops
      P.S.:
      about the photography:
      E = Eagle (on Samuel Huntington)
      I found this broken wooden surfer’s fragment on a beach
      and put it on a bench’s pillow =
      a tribute to Jasper Johns’ flag series…
      comment by dkplantzos:
      “excellent comment on nationalism;
      poignant and subtle at the same time…”

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  4. Excellent take on the theme. It might be said that a distorted US flag is also a reflection of our current state of affairs (politics). But then again, that probably goes for every election year…

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  5. Great Job!! Semper Fi!!

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  6. Hello all, and happy Friday Photo Challenge. Here’s my take on the Distorted theme:

    Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted

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  7. Absolutely awesome. Great work!

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  9. Interesting. Thanks for the share

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  11. An interesting take on this week’s theme 🙂

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  12. Very interesting concept of distorted, as some of the most distorted minds create acts of history.

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  14. I like this interpretation! Good shot!

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  15. Interesting choice… What happened to the rest of that eagle? 😉

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  16. You usually stun me one way or another and this photo is so beautifully provocative and reminiscent of Jasper Johns. I love the abstraction the starred eagle. I’ve had a very tumultuous relationship with this flag–your photo zings to the heart of it.

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    • It is stunning and not to worry.. you didn’t butt in but joined the ongoing conversation… 😉

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    • You’re a sweetheart, Frizz! I’m touched and happy!! I’m glad you brought out your oldest guitar — a great tribute. I really enjoy hearing you play. Maybe you’ll have to keep playing music until you’ve played a song on each of your guitars, banjos. . .

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  17. A very moving contribution for this weeks challenge. I struggled with it. I hate it when things get distorted.

    http://tristenhohn.com/2012/03/03/weekly-photo-challenge-distorted/

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  18. A very creative example for this week’s challenge! Many people would have just seen a broken piece of surfboard with stars and a blue background, and considered it trash. But you saw it as something more; as a piece of art with a patriotic story to tell.

    Thanks for visiting my blog, and for the pingback!

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  19. I like the post of
    Anette Hermann:
    http://anettehermann.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/weekly-photo-challenge-distorted/
    my comment there:
    do you mean:
    distortion of good dollar (and Euro) by
    high costs for health care – producing the global financial crisis / inflation?
    maybe the expensive military could be the reason too?
    A-7 Being Launched
    title=”A-7 Being Launched” by f0rbe5 – click on the image
    to enter the photographer’s flickr gallery …

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  20. wondering why you would associate yoga with distortion 😛
    yoga is a wonderful stress reliever 🙂 and clears your mind – not distort it !!!!

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  21. Super creative! It really does look like the head of the eagle!

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  22. i thought of yoga poses too! haha! i think your take on the distorted is awesome. 🙂

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  23. Love the bird, ingenious!

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  24. Very nice interpretation of two unrelated items to form a third one 🙂

    Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted

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  25. Wonderful!! Love this.

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  26. Nice, Frizz. I like the eagle and the pillow. Great idea. Although I have to say yoga positions can be very distorted, too! 😉

    Here’s mine! Thanks for visiting!

    Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted

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  27. idea to comment “Lost in translation” at

    Lost In Translation No. 2


    frizztext: distortion by translation – that’s what I’m producing daily – German is my natural language, so you read daily my special Frizzenglish; be glad, that you do not hear my pronunciation!

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  28. Interesting idea for this one. It turned out perfect! Distorted and slightly political, I love it!

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  29. 9/11 changed a lot of lives. It opened our eyes to what is really happening out there. The first time I saw the twin towers turned into dust I was in disbelief, then fear and anguish for those who perish. Thanks for the moving image. I reminder that we should never forget. My prayers to the victims of 9/11….

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  31. Powerful my dear, very powerful…(can’t say any more than that). Immie 🙂

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  32. Ash

    Well interpreted 🙂

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