Welcome to week 142 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge.

After all the hard work, I’m back at my day job and spending a week of planning with my team and the development group for the next product release. It’s a gentler kind of work than the rough construction efforts that filled my break time 🙂 That led me to this week’s theme of Gentle!

There are many times when a gentle touch works better than a sledgehammer, or when a gentle breeze is welcomed to relieve us from the heat. Accept this challenge and unleash your gentle current of creative flux to come up with some apt images and posts! I am curious to see what you will create this week!

Here’s a rather gentle creature…

Giant Swallowtail

This beautiful Giant Swallowtail was one of the gorgeous creatures that I found at a butterfly display; at this location, they breed the various species of butterfly and, if you sit very still, the butterflies will land on you and sit with you. It’s a magical experience!

The full rules of this challenge are in TPC Guidelines, but here’s the tl;dr:

  • Write a post with an image for this week’s topic
  • Please tag your post with fpj-photo-challenge (if you’re not sure about how tags work, please check out this WordPress article about tagging posts)
  • Create a pingback link to this post, so that I can create a post showing all of the submissions over the week (note: pingbacks may not appear immediately, as my site is set up to require approval for linking to it; helps against previous bad experiences with spamming)
  • Have fun creating something new (or sharing something old)!!

Looking forward to your gentle approaches!

117 responses

  1. This is very gentle indeed 🙂

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  3. What a beautiful butterfly,Frank. They epitomize gentle. Here’s my take this week
    https://dailymusing57.com/2019/01/08/tuesday-photo-challenge-gentle/

    1. Those are some gentle ducks!

      1. Indeed! 😀

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    1. Great to have you back!

      1. I am honoured ☺

  6. A gentle and exquisite photo Frank. Have a great week

    1. Thank you, Miriam. Enjoy your week!

  7. Oh, what a wonderful topic! And what a wonderful gentle model! 😀

  8. https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/tuesday-photo-challenge-gentle/
    Beautiful picture Frank. My Mum loved butterflies, and we took her to a butterfly farm one year. She was enthralled.

    1. Gentle Maggie! What can I say? Butterflies know who they like, and I’m sure they loved your Mum!

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    Tranature – quiet moments in nature

    A beautiful image and a lovely challenge Frank, my first contribution is here: https://tranature.com/2019/01/08/tuesday-photo-challenge-gentle/

    1. Wonderful, gentle moss! Great post!

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        Tranature – quiet moments in nature

        Thank you Frank! 🙂🌿

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  14. What a gorgeous picture! A real inspiration! <3

    1. Thank you very much, Penny!

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    1. Another awesome post!

  16. Hello again Frank, Eivor and Pearl’s contribution is here: https://whippetwisdom.com/2019/01/08/haiku-winter-dawn/

  17. What a beautiful capture.

    1. A gentle breeze works well 🙂

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    1. Lovely, gentle creatures!

  20. Here’s my ‘gentle’ contribution … tongue in cheek for what my friend’s pooch likely did … 😉
    https://naamayehuda.com/2019/01/08/gentle-giant/
    Na’ama

    1. Love that post!

      1. 🙂 So glad you liked it! 🙂

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  22. Beautiful butterfly, wonderful shot.

  23. Stunningly beautiful!

    1. Thank you kindly!

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    1. Wonderful gentle friends!

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  26. Frank, that is a gorgeous photo of a butterfly’s gentle pose. Here is my take on the prompt. https://www.quaintrevival.com/how-to-get-motivated-to-fit-into-your-swimsuit-for-spring-break/

    1. Wonderful approach to this theme!

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  28. Swallowtails are so graceful in flight and beautiful. Here’s a courting pair
    with a gentle touch: https://outofmywritemind.com/2019/01/09/a-gentle-touch/

    1. Those are a lovely photo and poem!

      1. Thank you, Frank. I’m glad you enjoyed it!

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  32. Hi Frank. Hope you saw my late entry for “Floor”. This one is definitely on time. Ha ha! https://odaciuk.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/gentle-memories/

    1. Awesome post, Olga!

      1. Thanks, Frank. <3

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    1. Lovely photography of those gentle friends!

      1. Thank you kindly!

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  35. Great capture of a gentle beauty.
    Here is my gentle post: https://travelwithintent.com/2019/01/10/gentle-light-of-golden-hour/

    1. Fantastic post, Debbie!

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  38. Wonderful butterfly Frank 🙂

    1. Thank you, Brian!

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    1. A very gentle soul!

      1. Thank you 😊

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  41. Hello Frank, what a gorgeous butterfly. First time for me but I have been eyeing off your challenges for a while now. Regards. Tracy.

    1. Thank you, Tracy. Wonderful post that you contributed!

      1. Thank you, Frank. I appreciate the comment. I look forward to seeing more of your beautiful photos. All the best. Tracy.

    1. Lovely, gentle flowers!

      1. Thank you!

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  43. hi frank, wonderful and interesting shooting for the week theme, here is my post for this challenge theme, https://wp.me/p2AvI7-2Zo.
    greetings robert

    1. Thank you, Robert! Great photo!

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    1. That’s a wonderful post!

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    1. Wonderful poem, Penny!

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  50. Such an amazing picture of the beautiful butterfly! Wow!!

    1. Thank you very much, Anita!

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  53. what a beautiful butterfly!

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    1. Thank you! A lovely post for this theme!

    1. Cold, but makes for great photography!

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  56. I also went with a nature image in response to this challenge:https://wp.me/p2owKx-145
    That butterfly is beautiful, nice that it held still for you.
    Cheers!

    1. Thank you! Your post is lovely!

      1. Thank you very much.

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  59. What a gorgeous picture! Added a few pics of someone who defines the word gentle for me. Hope you like it.

    https://soniasmusings.com/2019/01/13/the-little-reason-that-inspires-me-to-become-better/

    1. Awesome post, Sonia!

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