Hi Bloggers! Do you have to share a story or a short reflection tagged with the letter “U”? For example I’ve written about an UMBRELLA (read below) and the underground subways of the big cities, about underwear or understatement, USA or Uruguay, urban and unicorn, Ukraine (Dnjepreprotovsk) or Ushuaia (Argentina), about untold stories or unchained people etc. – I’m sure you’ll find an own story or a short reflection tagged with “U”! Feel free to add in the comments the link to your personal interpretation of the letter “U”!!!
UMBRELLA
…some people put plastic bags over their heads, protecting themselves against the pouring rain, others ran into small shops, this woman left aristocratically with an English-style umbrella the Public Library, 42nd Street, Manhattan…
comments:
1 – gcquinn: not only a stylish woman with umbrella in the rain, but one who reads books!
2 – Ian@NZFlickrs: Overdressed librarian and the man is waiting to catch her if she slips in those high heel shoes
3 – Joe Wig: …She’s the beauty who has to battle the elements. You can feel the wet environment. The man’s an afterthought. In fact, you wonder why he’s slowing down since it IS raining.
4 – thorvaala: I suspect she’s a goddess and that has caused the man to hesitate.
5 – theouterpoint: the mirrored strides and turned heads . . .
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photo by FrizzText, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr – stats for this photo, more than 40,000 views: http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/531646024/stats/
related:
“U” Photo Archive + “U” Challenge + “U” Galleries + ABC visualized: U! + Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
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Flickr Comments 
I really like this photo.
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great picture
i had it in b&w in my mind
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In the middle of a rather daunting writing and research project, but this is a good challenge and a fabulous photograph. Quite wonderful.
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here’s a post from the archives. “The Undertow”
http://playamart.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/the-undertow/
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“a deadly undertow often awaits an unsuspecting swimmer…” – oh yes, Lisa, I had some bad experiences swimming myself in the Rhine river – and: I rescued 13 people during several years who tried to swim risky, one case difficult because two boys grabbed themselves in panic (underwater) – for one the help was nearly senseless: after the accident his brain was damaged – he couldn’t speak and walk no more …
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Hi Frizz! I’m back to posting for your A-Z Photo Challenge, yay! Today, I’m sharing U is for Men in ‘Uniform’ marching in ‘Unison’ – as inspired by my trip to Prague last year. 🙂 Here’s the link: http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/photo-journal-a-z-photo-challenge-u-is-for-men-in-uniform-marching-in-unison/
I like this photo – I love how your photographs tell so many stories – the movement is keenly felt as well. Very powerful.
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“U” for uniform – that’s quite a global idea …
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Here is my entry:
http://ohmsweetohmdotme.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/story-challenge-letter-u/
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to keep the “Golden Gate” bridge safe
for everyone who travels over it:
for sure a never ending Sisyphus goal…
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Here you are with letter U from me
http://scrapydo.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/story-telling-letter-u-for-unchained-melody/
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wonderful photograph – nice story it tells
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http://carlasaunders.com/2012/09/23/tight-jeans-and-an-acoustic-guitar-california-country-music/#comment-6058
I like it, how you minimize music down to a drawing in a moleskine book!
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I suspect she is a goddess too. My entry for the letter U is a whole book, my novel titled Up in the Bronx. Here’s the link http://bumbastories.wordpress.com/up-in-the-bronx/
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at first I got drowned in your wonderful sounds: guitar, harp, blues voice – like Mississippi John Hurt singing “Quiet Days in Clichy” parallel to Henry Miller’s Sexus Nexus Plexus. Then I switched to amazon reading there about your book and found some of my old book reviews (once I’ve been a Sisyphus like Camus in North Africa, writing book reviews), David Drebin could be an illustrator for your next book:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R273TGU9ECR4P6/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=3832794484&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
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Frizz,
If you’d like to review the Up in the Bronx book (which comes together with a music CD!) I’d be delighted to send you a copy. My second book One LIfe, is soon to be printed up again and also could use some reviewing. If you send me your mailing address(via email) I’ll send out a Care package. my email is bumbas24@yahoo.com.
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dear bumba,
I would like to write a book review for you
I wrote about Henry Miller too –
who worked many years in the 42nd public library in
Manhattan …
I wrote 151 book reviews in English:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3CFMHPMW9MU2I
and more than 1,000 in German,
was in the “Hall of fame” there for many years:
quiet days in clichy:
http://www.amazon.de/review/R3K193XJT7D37X/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=3499151618&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=299956&store=books
about the movie Henry & June:
http://www.amazon.de/review/R22K3XPCQEFLCC
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Wow. I would be very honored then to have my book reviewed by you Frizz. Email me your postal address to bumbas24atyahoo.com
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I already did …
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Just adore that photo Frizz 🙂
Here’s mine: http://theurgetowander.com/2012/11/20/the-window-tower-of-uzes/
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surprised to find “a free standing circular tower reminiscent of the Leaning Tower of Pisa…” in Uzes, France!
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I was surprised that many people in Holland don’t use an umbrella.
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I made the shot below in Holland, Amsterdam:
to use or not to use, that’s the question …
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Have they umbrellas in Utrecht… 😉
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better rise from being an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan
than developing downwards from a proud swan to a silly duck …
http://ledrakenoir.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/ugly/
thanks for UGLY (not Utrecht, but maybe Ushuaia, where my daughter was?)
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A very elegant photo.
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beautiful photo…can you find out her workout routine? Would love to have her back – lol
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would love to have her front …
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ha ha!! i am sure you would!
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Because everyone needs someone to look up to… please have a look at
http://acrossthebored.com/2012/11/20/story-challenge-letter-u/
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perfect U-climax:
Unbelievable Underwear fit for an Uberhero …
I like “Uberhero”
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Thank U
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great photo! i could tell the woman’s beautiful though i could only see her back 🙂
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i have mine here btw thanks ^^ http://theeclecticeccentricshopaholic.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/story-challenge-letter-u/
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thank you for your many examples for U!
especially I’ll focus on ugly soon …
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your poem:
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Ugly.
What I’ve always thought of myself in my teens
Despite what other people say…
In spite of the front that I put up…
I secretly wished I didn’t look this way.
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I enjoyed your photo frizztext. I have been ill and I am now getting back to a routine. On this post that I am posting also has a link to past Letters S & T. I missed several challenges and put them all in one post. Please check that post out too.
Here is this weeks “U” for me: http://danajoward.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/story-challenge-letter-u/
shortlink: http://wp.me/p2EF02-qV
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you drew those Umbrella’s very well! good poster …
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Underground
http://truthaboveallreligions.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/story-challenge-letter-u-underground/
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it seems, your gopher likes his safe life in the underground, no foxes there?
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Hi Frizz….Incredible how many things posted under “U”…Here is my contribution
http://ilargia64.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/photo-story-challenge-letter-u/
A little bit of History….
Hope you like it!
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you’ve uploaded a very good, informative U-boat report!
http://ilargia64.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/photo-story-challenge-letter-u/
Thanks for sharing!
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Love this image!
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Hi everybody! I’m very late to the party this week, but here’s my take on the U Challenge:
http://stephenkellycreative.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/a-to-z-challenge-the-letter-u-ultraman/
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thanks for your Tokyo report!
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very late as usual, here is my take on the U letter as well as a belated T.
Uros floating Island made of Totora reeds on the lake Titicaca.
http://lorenesudamerica.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/weekly-letter-challenge-u-uros-floating-island/
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thank you for your wonderful report! I like the
Totora boats, Uros islands, lake titicaca, Peru
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Here’s my entry for the U challenge : http://perceptionsofareluctanthomemaker.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/unconditional/
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I remember well the Mumbai massacre –
some brave private heroes in the hotel!
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desert shot and: “Precision must be very important in this area!” :
UNEXPECTED:
http://creativityaroused.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/u-challenge-unusual-unexpected/
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This is a classy photo, Frizz!
I am very far behind, but I got my “U” theme posted:
http://creativityaroused.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/u-challenge-unusual-unexpected/
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desert shot and: “Precision must be very important in this area!”
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