Let's have a little fun this month..
Show us photos of signs where you live. It could be an odd sign, a street with a weird name, or a town with a strange name, or a sign that makes you think HUH?
If you want you could also just take a really creative or artistic photo of a sign.

I found a few examples on the web.

Say What?
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In Plain English
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www.bclaytonphoto.com

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This should be fun..I've got a few in mind already !!

www.bclaytonphoto.com

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Oh yeah! I know where a good one is, I have to go take that one soon..... a picture of it that is.... I wasn't going to "take" the sign! LOL :P

Kim Hawkins

 

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I already have one up.  ;)

lol!

Everyone should have at least one sign. lol ;-)

One more. ;-)

  I don't have anything as inventive as the above, but here's my entry.

Have a good weekend, all!

 

 My father sent me these photos from out in Oman a few weeks back - i think they fit the challenge (although i will put up my hand and say they are out of date and taken by a relative (with permission reproduced) rather than me).

"In every colour, there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the Dolphin"

Rich Meadows Photography

What a great idea!  I'll have to start looking around.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Wonderful signs. I have tried to get a sign for over 10 years but its on the freeway and there is no place to stop to take it. And slowing down in that spot could get you killed.  And of course, its a small sign to make it more difficult.

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Great idea Bruce! My first sign is self explanatory... I just don't know how many people know that crocs are also known as Flatdogs!!!!

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

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This one was also in Swaziland and had Bruce and I tickled pink! It was posted just before crossing a small lake which led one out of a wildlife area. In the end we decided that it is telling trees and plants that they are prohibited to cross the bridge - especially on their own!

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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With all the snow here in New Jersey, its hard to get out for some NEW sign photos.  Took this "Public Punishment" sign at a local Renaissance Festival a few years back.

J:woot:e

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In croatia

that would certainly keep me from going any further!

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South Beach, Florida

Now that's something!  Most of our beaches like this have been closed because there were too many people hiding in the bushes watching.  Good find and good shot.

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 I don't know what this means but here it is....

LOL!  It's wonderful, but not very informative!  :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Here's one I took in Seattle last week ... it appears someone has altered the sign a bit! 

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

And here's another from just down the street.

I want to know more about take out candlelight dinners!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

 LOL! Those are great!

Ok, that airplane thing is baffling. :-)  There are certainly a lot of signs.  Reminds me of that song...

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Foto-Arte the sign reads... Be by the tree at 7:14 pm to go to the airport.  ;D

An oldie but a goodie (For Bruce!) Captured this in InfraRed when I was up in the NY Catskills last summer

J:lol:e

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Death Valley, lowest point in the United States.  282 below sea level.

So Bruce has a street named for him?

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If there is a prize JC wins.

Dana

Bad case of T.M.S. (Too Many Signs!)   New Hope Pennsylvania

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Holy cow! You could go blind just trying to read them all! Incredible!

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Now it it's posted but you can't read it anymore, does it still apply?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

So where do they go when a photograph leaves you speechless? 

Sort of goes with if you are alone and pass gas, do you still need to say "Excuse Me" ?  LOL

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#Signs..signs everywhere are signs#  There was an old song with them words in it. That picture fits!

Here's a good one! 

How many bullet holes you count?

Wow.  You gotta wonder what precipitated THAT sign!  LOL!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Now that's funny. :-)

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So, as long as the car has no motor, it can legally sit on the lake bottom, right? :unsure:

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

So where do they go when a photograph leaves you speechless? 

Ok, so I should pre-key in those phone numbers on my cell phone, so when I get swept away by that "high velosity flow" I'm sure to call the correct beaurocratic agency so they can dispatch the appropriate governmental department to come fish me out, is that what they are saying???

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

So where do they go when a photograph leaves you speechless? 

It's interesting what you find when you start looking for unusual signs.

This is for a cosmetics shop, not t-shirts or jackets. Too bad.

The little signs - those are for 50% and 70% discounts.

 

Too cute to pass up.

This one is for when it's time to take a break from walking around and looking at all the other signs.

I think it's time they used a different name.

 Shame i didnt have a camera with me the other day but there was a sign in the entrance to Victoria St Station in London on a rather large A-Frame board which was positioned so that it took up about a 1/3 of the width of an already congested chokepoint into the station - so very visible to everyone...  What did it say?

"How you we can improve this station for you? Call 020 ...[etc]"

I just laughed out loud as i walked past it at the irony of it during rush hour. I think someone gave me a funny look as i was by myself.

"In every colour, there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the Dolphin"

Rich Meadows Photography

I travel eight miles of this road to reach the highway. There are curves where I am looking at my tail lights!

LOL.. these are great.  I enjoyed and laughed my way through.  As for the airplane sign.....   Duck.. Low Flying Planes??? 

Luvin' all the cool signs everyone's sharing!

Here's one I took in Wildwood NJ....Up...UP and AWAY!

J:woot:e

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beautifully done! too funny!

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interesting signs of our times

Found a weird sign some time ago. Well the sign itself ist pretty ordinary and common, but the words below it say "Beware of boars/wild pigs"...

someone needs to go back to animal identification 101

Well, leaping lizards! Or perhaps in this case, leaping pigs... if pigs could fly... LOL Love it.

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LOL maybe that's why the deer is running...  

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

So where do they go when a photograph leaves you speechless? 

How about a "sign" that spring is on the way?

True! but that still looks cold, too cold for these old bones

Anytime wild water thaws, it is a good sign and that is a sign in itself. :-)

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Late as I can be but join in anyway. I enjoyed reading all the signs you guys and gals shared. Great fun.

Here is mine.  On the country road we need to watch out for them. Wild camel, wombat, kangaroo.

seeyus  Tunde

...second

Signs in a Maori village New Zealand.

3rd...well the sign pretty much say it.

seeya

that's a busy place! And how often have you seen a camel, Koala (that's a Koala, right?) and a kangaroo cross the road here?

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Well, Camels roaming free and in the early hours of the day they do cross the road. Thanks they do run a cross so no accident with them. Very timid animal. 

The middle animal is a Wombat.  They moving in the early morning when the sun is not in full blast yet. Later they go back to their borrow away from the heat. They not a fast animal and they have a hard firm body. In the back (bum) they do have a hard plate if you knock on it sound like a wood...lol. If you hit a wombat probably the animal will survive thx for the hard body but make a big damage in a car.

Kangaroo....pure nightmare on the road. Same story, they very active in dusk and early morning and close to sunset. They up all night hopping all over the place looking for food. They hide under the bush far back from the road later in the day.They just grazing along a road side. When they hear a car coming they don't know which way to jump and many times they choose to jump front of the car, unfortunately. Make a huge damage on the car and most likely the animal will suffer fatal injury. It is a law in australia if we hit a mamma kangy we have to check the pouch for the joey (baby kangy) . Harsh but we have to kill it unless the baby died too in the impact. The little one can not survive on its own.
I know your wildlife saving instinct cuts in and want to take it to the vet or wildlife resque. They put the poor thing down, not saving it. Don't ask me why not. I would.

Opps talked too much...seeya

Wombat... I have seen documentaries on them and they are difficult creatures - they don't seem too bright. :-)  Around here its skunk, raccoon, possum, barn owls, coyote, deer and elk that we watch for but they only have signs for the larger animals that will wreck your car when you hit them...the deer and the elk. :-)

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After the snowstorm ended today here in NJ, I went for a li'l drive on some back roads and THIS SIGN caught my eye on the side of the road. Like all the empty space.

J:woot:e

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This is a riot! but on the other hand, how very sad!

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Different perspective...captured with my wide angle lens @ 11mm

Je

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Great one

Good stuff folks!

:D 

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