Welcome to Thursday Doors! This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.
Welcome back to Thursday Doors. We are ready to kick off a new year of sharing doors of all shapes and sizes from all around the world. Now that I’ve set you up for some wonderful doors, I should tell you that my doors today are quite ordinary and quite local. That’s OK. I don’t have much room to describe the doors. I have an announcement.
Today’s JusJoJan prompt is ‘Shy’ and it’s given to us by Di at pensitivity101. I’ll not be shy — In my post last year in December, I posted an incorrect schedule for the Thursday Doors Badge Contest. I mentioned that it starts today — it does. I also said the the last day to submit an entry is January 13th — that’s incorrect.
Don’t worry. The winning badge will serve for an entire year. If you are interested in submitting a badge entry, the correct dates and rules are listed next:
- The badge should mention Thursday Doors and be something that conveys a doors-related message. It can be a photo, a drawing, a collage, or anything else that works.
- The image should be applicable to all seasons, as we will use the badge for a year.
- The badge should be little taller than wide but can be square. Otherwise, it’s going to be squished to fit in the welcome block – (see the one above as an example).
- Your entry MUST BE an image you have the rights to share, and you must be willing and able to extend those rights publicly. I will be inviting everyone to use the badge. Note: If you need to include an attribution, add it to your image or send it to me and I’ll include it in the caption.
- You may list your name or your blog URL on the image but don’t go overboard – this is about the doors.
- Post the badge image on YOUR blog and leave a link to that post in a comment below or on Any of My Posts Between today and next week – January 16th.
- If you do not have a blog, email the image to noFacilities-at-gmail-dot-com (you know how that works).
- You do not have to be a regular Thursday Doors contributor to create a badge, but you should have a nodding acquaintance with the challenge. Regular readers are certainly welcome. However, Only Thursday Doors Participants will be Invited to Vote. They are the people who will be displaying the badge. It’s only fair that they get to choose. There is no required number of posts, if you participated in 2024, you can vote.
- One entry per person. If you submit multiple entries, I will consider the last one submitted as your contest entry.
Timing – Your link must be posted, or your email must be received by 11:59 pm Thursday, January 16th (North American Eastern Time).
Process – I will assemble the images for review and post a survey for voting on Sunday, January 19th. The survey will be open until 12:00 p.m. EST, on Tuesday, January 21st.
Good luck to all participants. I hope you enjoy my doors, and I hope you take a few minutes to visit some of the other participants’ doors.
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