Tuesday Photo Challenge – Toys

Welcome to Week 122 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!  All those great posts, each one in a Row after the other, were a delight to read and view!

Quite often I spend time looking at a variety of images to decide on the theme for the week.  This time, the theme came to me right away, as this playful image guided me to Toys!  I think that our human condition puts a premium on play and inventiveness, of which toys are a perfect expression!  Of course, there are lots of different toys, many of which can be found in the most unusual locales!  One of my favorites is the spindle of adhesive tape dispensers, which makes a fantastic top 🙂

For this week’s challenge, share some of your favorite toys, whether they are found in everyday objects or true expressions of a creative mind.  I’m looking forward to seeing what you may share in these images!

As I’m a bit of a collector, here are some of mine…

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Jumping Brains gather for a meeting

These are Jumping Brains, a design from the super creative mind of Emilio Garcia (website), whose art products often sell out within minutes of their release.  I’m fortunate enough to have a substantial collection of Emilio’s work, particularly some of his early work.  They are displayed with pride in my studio and a lot of fun to look at.

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)!!

I’m looking forward to seeing what winds up filling your posts!

Comments

96 responses to “Tuesday Photo Challenge – Toys”

  1. […] *** Tuesday Photo Challenge : toys. […]

  2. mammasquirrel Avatar

    I love frogs!!!!

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      They are the best!

      1. mammasquirrel Avatar

        Yes!

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  6. Shelley Avatar
    Shelley

    Oh, my goodness…I had to do a double take after I read the name of the toys in your picture! Yeah…at first glance I just thought they were frogs! Your collection is fun and very colorful. Here is my entry for the week – thank you for the opportunity to play along! https://www.quaintrevival.com/why-do-we-love-our-toys/

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Yes, they are little jumping brains 🙂 Love your post!

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  8. Follygirl Avatar

    🙂 .. another great job for me !!! THANK YOU! <3

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      I can see why 🙂

      1. Follygirl Avatar

        🙂

  9. pensitivity101 Avatar

    Like the brain collection Frank! At first, I thought they were frogs.
    Here’s mine.
    https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2018/08/14/tuesday-photo-challenge-toys/

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Wonderful sets of toys!!

      1. pensitivity101 Avatar

        Thanks Frank!

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  11. syncwithdeep Avatar

    Thank u for the prompt.. Here is my take..
    https://syncwithdeep.wordpress.com/2018/08/14/toy-story/

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Wonderful poem!

      1. syncwithdeep Avatar

        Thank u jansen

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  13. whippetwisdom Avatar

    A fun prompt Frank, I love frogs and those jumping brains are fabulous! There is only one toy Eivor and Pearl love chasing and playing with and you can probably guess what it is: https://whippetwisdom.com/2018/08/14/tuesday-photo-challenge-toys/

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      I guessed it! Love that shot floating through the air!

      1. whippetwisdom Avatar

        Thank you Frank! :o)

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    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      That is a truly fantastic place! Love your post!

  15. I. J. Khanewala Avatar

    Beautiful pieces. Thanks for introducing me to an artist I didn’t know of.

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    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Great post!

      1. Tatiana Avatar

        Thank you Jansen 🙂

  20. PurplePumpernickel Avatar

    Fun fun! Love how you have styled your Jumping Frogs collection!

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Thank you! Those Jumping Brains are among my favorites.

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  25. Sonia Chatterjee Avatar

    That’s a cool set of collection. I love the way you have arranged. My post today might not have a great visual appeal today but it stands for a cause close to my heart. I would love to know what you think of it.

    https://soniasmusings.com/2018/08/15/freedom-from-bias-through-toys-indian-independence-day-special/

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Wonderful entry for this week!

      1. Sonia Chatterjee Avatar

        Thank you.

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  27. Photography Journal Blog Avatar

    These are well, different, I’ll be honest though, not really sure I like them, not quite sure why they don’t appeal to me.

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      They are not to everyone’s taste, which is fine 🙂

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  30. oneletterup Avatar

    What cool toys! Once again, I love the prompt. A fun inspiration!
    My contribution:
    http://oneletterup.com/2018/08/15/tuesday-photo-challenge-toys

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Wonderful post! Love the nostalgia!

      1. oneletterup Avatar

        Thank you!

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  32. sandyjwhite Avatar

    Love your cerebral frogs! Here is my entry: https://outofmywritemind.com/2018/08/15/turn-back-the-hands-of-time/

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      That is a fantastic post!!

      1. sandyjwhite Avatar

        Thanks, Frank. As I turn 70 this year, it was fun to look back.

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  34. robert20359 Avatar

    hi frank, a great idea and picture this week, here is my post for this challenge theme,https://wp.me/p2AvI7-2Pw.
    greetings robert

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Thank you, Robert! Those are fantastic photos!

  35. ForgivingConnects Avatar

    Hi Frank!
    What a great challenge – and I love your photo. 🙂 I’m going to be missing it this week – will be traveling so my post this Friday is likely to be brief. Have a wonderful week, and I know they are going to be amazing.
    Blessings to you and your wife,
    Debbie

  36. Marie Avatar

    Love the brains, Frank. Do any of them actually jump? 🙂

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Thank you, Marie; the only jump when you blink 🙂

      1. Marie Avatar

        🙂 🙂

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  38. bushboy Avatar

    Hi Frank,
    here are my Toys
    http://bushboy.blog/2018/08/16/toys/

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Wow! Those are some truly classic toys!

      1. bushboy Avatar

        Thanks Frank I love the older toys

  39. Hammad Rais Avatar

    These little jumping brains are certainly a wonderful treat for not only sore eyes but tired minds as well 🙂

  40. […] A small toy story […]

  41. mirymalu Avatar
    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Great post! Awesome to see Mommydaddybaby in front of Malahide Castle, as I had meetings there earlier this year.

      1. mirymalu Avatar

        Impressive that you recognized it!

  42. Tatiana Avatar

    Nice theme, and although I’m not too much into toys – my only one is the camera 😉 I did take some during my travels… I made a post Tuesday but probably the pingback didn’t get through, so I’m inserting it manually:
    Toys ins the world – http://www.travelways.com/toys-in-the-world
    Thanks for looking 🙂

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      That’s a really fun post!

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  46. Olga Avatar

    Hi Frank. I was almost stumped by this one. No new toys to photograph, other than a beanie baby collection my daughter saved in our move. I decided to go with beach toy photos that I almost forgot I had. https://odaciuk.wordpress.com/2018/08/17/beach-fun/

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Olga, glad to hear that I didn’t stump you! Great post!

      1. Olga Avatar

        Thank-you, Frank. 🙂

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  51. MNL Avatar

    That’s a cool collection of frogs. I’ve never seen jumping brains before. It’s fun to look more closely at the texture and then realize that it’s a brain.

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Thank you! Glad you enjoyed them.

  52. MNL Avatar

    Just a heads up, I sent a pingback from Cactus Haiku but it’s not showing. So I put the url in a comment and it’s not showing either although the other comment I posted later is showing. You might check to see if my pingback or url comment went into the spam folder. It’s a dog haiku with my photo of a dog with his toy.

    1. jansenphoto Avatar

      Thank you for letting me know. It had gone to spam and should be visible now

      1. MNL Avatar

        Thank you for checking the spam. I do the Saturday prompt for Ragtag Community and I’ve noticed people with legitimate posts randomly get put in the spam folder. Don’t know why though.

      2. jansenphoto Avatar

        I can’t figure out how spam is determined in some cases, although there’s plenty of true spam that is being filtered out, so I won’t complain too much 🙂

      3. MNL Avatar

        I don’t know either about how spam is determined. On ragtag, i’ve noticed that certain people end up more often in spam but there’s nothing wrong with their pingback or comment. I can’t really figure it out. I think people who are selfhosted wordpress rather than on wordpress.com end up in the spam folder. Haven’t noticed it happening to the wordpress.com hosted folks. So I just make it a habit to check the folder. On my own blog, 98% is spam. On Ragtag, only 10% is spam but 90% is good pingbacks in their spam folder unless other editors are catching the bulk of the spam (there are 7 of us monitoring things as we each have a day to give a prompt and a lot of them check things a lot more often then I do) and I just happen to be the one catching the nonspam comments since I check things late in the day being in a later timezone.

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