Quote the Image: Caption Contest With a Twist!
~Sabine Herrmann from Where Women Create Summer 2014
~Tara Morris from Artful Blogging Summer 2014
~Jillian Lukiwski from Artful Blogging Summer 2014
Every now and then you’ll come across an image that immediately strikes you full of inspiration. You may suddenly want to draw, paint, or even compose a poem or song — and all because there’s something magical, wonderful, and simply stirring about that particular photograph. Sometimes, we’re not just inspired, we’re reminded of something else that we hold to be equally as moving. For example a favorite quote, the lines of a song, or a portion of a beloved poem.
While I was flipping through the pages of the summer 2014 issue of Artful Blogging, I saw Jillian’s picture and what came to my mind, almost immediately, was the couplet of my all-time favorite sonnet:
Then happy I, that love and am beloved
Where I may not remove nor be removed.
~William Shakespeare, Sonnet 25
There’s something effortless, charming, and just plain beautiful and romantic about Jillian’s photograph that resonated with me in the same way that my favorite love poem does. This got me thinking, if this is how I feel about this image — I wonder how others feel about it too?
Quote the Image Caption Contest Giveaway*
[This giveaway has ended.]
The three featured images on this post by Sabine Herrmann, Jillian Lukiwski, and Tara Morris are extraordinary! They capture romantic, happy, and carefree moments in time.
Select one of the three featured images, and find a quote, snippet of a song, or even a line from a poem that really resonates with it in the comment section below. How to enter:
- Click the “Pin-It” button for your favorite photograph
- Comment on the blog post below with the most fitting quote caption you can think of
The person with the most “fitting” caption will receive a magazine of their choice (a value of $14.99 or less)!
*Contest is open to US residents only, and expires May 31st, 2014.
Posted: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 11:03 am
Categories: Artful Living, Contests and Giveaways.
Tags: Artful Blogging, caption contest, Contest, Giveaway, Quote to Win.
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“In the lap of luxury”
That’s a good one Lyn! Don’t forget to add a link showing that you pinned the image.
I’m not on Pinterest so I know I can’t win but my caption for the photo of the woman running through the blue bells would be “This is a lot more fun than tip toeing through the tulips!”
Concerning the third photo, this quote by Tracy Chevalier struck me as appropriate: “Say something worth the words.”
Also, the first photo, made me think of this quote which I love: “Even dogs enjoy the beautiful nature.” (by Voetmann)
Those are great quotes Kim! Don’t forget to share your link showing that you Pinned your favorite image!
the first photo:
“Purple haze was in my brain,
lately things don’t seem the same,
actin’ funny, but I don’t know why
‘scuse me while I kiss the sky.”
Reminded me of the freedom of my younger years.
Jimmi Hendrix
“Do you suppose she is a Wildflower”? Lewis Carroll
hey Deborah, don’t forget to pin the image! This is a great quote. Thanks for participating!
Image #2
“boy, do I have the life? or what!”
http://stampington.com/blog/index.php/2014/05/12/quote-the-image-caption-contest-and-giveaway/
love the first one…here’s my pin
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/1337074864757980/
And my quote is “The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” ― C. JoyBell C.
The woman just looks so carefree in a beautiful setting.
For the third photo http://www.pinterest.com/pin/1337074864758006/
gotta be the John Greene quote
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.”
“You just make me feel so silly mom!”
Regarding the photo from Tara Morris
“The Ultimate in Snuggly Softness”
(Snuggle Fabric Softner)
Hah! That’s a good one. Don’t forget to pin the image!
“A book of verses underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou.
Beside me singing in the wilderness
Oh wilderness were paradise anow.”
–Omar Khayyam
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/494973815268342070/
My favorite photograph is by Sabine Herrmann. My caption would be, “C’mon, let’s touch the sky!”
Oh yes, here is the link to Pinterest and my posting of Sabine Herrmann’s photo.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/33425222209333030/
Thank you.
Love all the photos but the 2nd one pulls at my heartstrings. Quote I came up with for the 2nd Photo…”Lapping Up the Love”
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/49398927137549823/
Since I’m not on Pinterest, I appreciate the chance to comment on the captions:
Caption for top photo:
“Rex, are you absolutely sure? Okay, then, let’s FIND that lost ice cream man!”
Sami S Thompson
My quote is for the second picture by Tara Morris. “Happy Feet” was the first words that came to mind as soon as I saw the photo. “Happy Feet” is the perfect quote for the photo and is the title of the song, and in the lyrics, of the song “Happy Feet” by Cab Calloway. It it also the title of the penguin movie by Warner Brothers.
That’s a great quote! Don’t forget to pin the image :)
My quote caption for Jillian’s photo is “Cowboy take me away” – Dixie Chicks.
I pinned, http://www.pinterest.com/pin/63331938484724846/
third photo
caption:
“I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I’ve broken
But I swear in the days still left
We’ll walk in fields of gold”
From Sting … “Fields of Gold”
“It was enough just to sit there without words.” -Louise Erdrich
forgot to add my pin (above)
I love all the photos but Jillian Lukiwski reminded me of the beautiful quote from Maya Angelou:
In all the world there is
No heart for me like yours.
In all the world there is
No love for you like mine.
I’m sorry I forgot to add my link:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/25614291605644526/
As soon as I saw the third photo I thought of the lyrics from Fields of Gold:
So she took her love for to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold
Will you stay with me, will you be my love?
Among the fields of barley
We’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold
Love this beautiful song!
That’s a great song Linda! Don’t forget to Pin the image.
Pinned it! http://www.pinterest.com/pin/380061656026824509/
Thank’s for the reminder! <3
http://pinterest.com/pin/135389532522827608/
For image 2:
Mom’s lap is the best place on earth!
On the first photo, “Don’t look back you’re not going that way.” anonymous
here’s the link to my pin:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/125889752058429510/
For the first photo “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
― Warsan Shire
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/41447259045556716/
For the third photo “I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/41447259045556737/
for middle picture “Yeessss, I do want to play….just not yet.”
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/105834659968014179/
http://www.pinterest.com/GracieMae67/art/
http://www.pinterest.com/GracieMae67/art/
I pinned this to my sight I hope this shows up on my reply. LOL
Stop to smell the flowers.
Hi Carmen, that’s a classic! Don’t forget to Pin-It!
I love that third photo, pinned here: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/403846291558569105/
I love the song “Summer Breeze” by Seals & Croft and this photo reminded me of the lyrics:
Sweet days of summer,
the jasmine’s in bloom
July is dressed up
and playing her tune
And I come home
from a hard day’s work
and you’re waiting there,
not a care in the world…
Love the third photo!
From Pablo Neruda’s poem, “Perhaps Not to Be is to Be Without Your Being”:
suddenly, inspiringly, to know my life,
blaze of the rose-tree, wheat of the breeze:
and it follows that I am, because you are
And my pin: http://www.pinterest.com/amfowlerbv/nostalgia/
Lovely poem Anne, thanks for participating!
Love the first photo. ” In to the great blue yonder!!
http://pinterest.com/pin/283093526551584681/
I love the Tara Morris photograph and pinned it to my board, “Escape.” This quote sums of what I think captures the spirit of the photo: “Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.” -Kate Douglas Wiggin
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/458100593319605799/
“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
I love the field of bluebonnets! The song “No Place But Texas” with the lyrics ‘God painted the bluebonnets in the fields’ by Willie Nelson is a favorite and reminds me of this picture.
http:/www.pinterest.com/pin/394909461048277588
I am drawn to the first photo.
It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should–a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.
Paula McLain