Welcome to week 194 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!

As this is the first Tuesday Photo Challenge in the new year, I went looking for ideas that might be appropriate for this auspicious occasion. Going from the old to the new reminded me of passing from one room into the next, which led me to the theme of Portal. Of course, there are many types of portals to be found around the world, which makes me look forward to discover which among them will appear in your posts.

Your challenge is to share some portal that might be representative of the great adventure that lies ahead. Unleash your creative eye and let your mind open the portal… Most of all, have fun!!

This mystical portal might lead to the other side…

Mystical Portal

This shot is from an exploration of an old mill in nearby Hardwick, MA. In capturing this, I wanted to create just enough fuzziness in the door that it makes us wonder, where it might lead…

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)!!

Look around, find a portal and take us to the other side!

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  3. I like your door of mystery Frank 🙂

    1. Thank you, Brian!

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  5. Beautiful… you can image a mystical, magical garden beyond that door.

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  7. That door of yours surely promises nothing less of a magical mystery tour behind it.
    Here’s my ‘portal’: https://studiotionghan.com/2020/01/07/moroccan-portal-tuesday-photo-challenge/

    PS sorry for the absence the last couple of weeks.

    1. Your portal is filled with amazing perspective and invites exploration! Great shot!

      1. Thx Frank!

  8. I thought of going with Harry Potter again…

    https://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/2020/01/portal.html

    1. Awesome portal to the other side!

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  10. I love the mysterious look of this portal Frank! Our contribution for this week’s lovely challenge is here: https://whippetwisdom.com/2020/01/07/haibun-beginnings/

    1. Thank you, Xenia! Your portal is truly magical!

      1. Thank you Frank!

  11. Beautiful decay! Wooden doors age well, as far as a photographer is concerned.

    I had the fortune to see a five century old site with lovely doors: https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/the-emperors-tomb/

    1. Fantastic site and amazing doors!

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  14. And may portals let us look back, too. So we not repeat what should not be …
    https://naamayehuda.com/2020/01/07/portal-to-tomorrow/
    Na’ama

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  17. Frank, interesting subject again. This shows how beautiful decay can be in the right eye. If I only knew why my plingback doesn’t work for me. Now I see here above that it has landed properly this week.

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  21. A great start of the new year – a portal to……..the future?

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  27. Happy start of the new year Frank, and wonderful challenge. Here is my entry for this week https://travel-with-tech.blog/2020/01/08/streetart-portal/

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  29. […] invites us to share our take on Portal this […]

  30. […] Here is Dutch Goes the Photo’s (https://dutchgoesthephoto.net) Tuesday photo Challenge.  This week’s topic is: Portal (https://dutchgoesthephoto.net/2020/01/07/tuesday-photo-challenge-portal/). […]

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  32. Happy new year Frank from one portal in Australia to yours 🙏

  33. […] This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Portal. […]

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  35. hi frank a wonderful picture what you show us here I like it very much, here is my contribution for this week,https://wp.me/p2AvI7-3mZ.
    greetings robert

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  41. What a great topic for this challenge! My response is knowledge as a portal:https://wp.me/p2owKx-1q2
    Cheers, Amy

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      1. Thanks, Frank 😊

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  48. […] Whenever I see an unusual door I’m always curious as to what’s behind it. This one has bars on it that let me stick my nose in.Inside the door was a red whale mural, and some intriguing stairs that lead up to what? a portal to another world? Alas the door is locked so I couldn’t just wander in and find out. That door was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and this gateway to another world was nearby. This was one I did not stick my nose into! A silhouette against the light of an arched tunnel in Aalborghus Slot in Aalborg, Denmark. What’s at the end of the tunnel?A portal to another world indeed, the doorway into a monastery on Inle Lake in Myanmar. In October in La Rioja, Spain the grape harvest was in full swing and the aromas of crushed grapes, red wine and alcohol led me to this doorway, which led into a winery mostly in the subterranean tunnels below (Laguardia, Spain).This door leads to a prison cell at the Crumlin St. Gaol in Belfast, Ireland. A room at the Agra Fort, a 16th-century Mughal fortress in Agra, India.Entering a graffiti-carved cave on the Maastricht Cave Tour in Holland.Steps leading down into the Marble Arch Caves Geopark near Enniskellen in Ireland, UK.  Climb out the window and enter a not-so-secret garden, Monet’s exuberant inspiration outside his house in Giverny, France. My personal inspiring view, looking outside my studio on a gloomy Vancouver day. Don’t you just want to run outside? No? I can tell you this former mattress factory is now a maze of around 250 artist’s studios where one can spend the entire day just wandering around, but only during the Eastside Culture Crawl in mid-November. More of Frank’s Photo Challenge: Portal. […]

  49. Happy New Year, Frank. I decided to create my own portal. https://odaciuk.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/unlikely-portal/

  50. […] This is is my nineteenth entry for the Tuesday Photo Challenge. This week’s theme is portal. Hope you guys like this new post. Here’s a link to Frank’s blog https://dutchgoesthephoto.net/2020/01/07/tuesday-photo-challenge-portal/ […]

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    Hello again Frank, we have a reflected portal here as our second contribution for this lovely challenge: https://tranature.com/2020/01/12/haiku-heavenly-portal/

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