JANUARY 2011 - MONTHLY CHALLENGE - GATES AND GATEWAYS

[birsay]

I think this has the potential to be much broader than allowed in some of this discussion. If you "open up" (pun intended) and use gate and/or gateway not only as a noun but their verb tense the creativity and photographic potential can broaden greatly. Think about depicting transition points, a stride, etc. How about being a little liberal in your twist or take on the word (that is always common in these monthly challenges). This should not be limiting or exclusive in any way.

I personally plan on studying literal gates hopefully in creative ways. I hope others will be able to join in by not allowing themselves to be boxed in by some literal translation of the theme. Add to the variety and flavor!

Glad to be in 2011!

+1 ...I'll be being very creative in my interpretation of gate/gateway/door/doorway....

Doug

[mairead]

Count me in - lots of gates in the countryside.
My first image:
http://www.pbase.com/image/131541992

[heez10]

Like they say...keep it simple s...here's a gate:
http://www.pbase.com/image/131544900

[reedjr]

http://www.pbase.com/reedjr/image/131544924

[chenchena]

My second gate of this month

http://www.pbase.com/image/131545117

Mieke

[lynnh]

My second Gate. How's this for an creative use for the word???
While I was at our town's New Years celebration, there were lots of people dancing in the streets. I saw these girls dancing and remembered an old dance move called a Gate. http://www.pbase.com/image/131545242

[mclew]

My city is full of gates too! But it's cold and damp today so I'm starting off simple with this gate to a neighbor's side yard. I like how the little vine tries to cover it every year.

http://www.pbase.com/image/131545929

Margaret Lew

[herb1rm]

DAY ONE
http://www.pbase.com/herb1rm/image/131547057

[cjphipps_servo]

http://upload.pbase.com/cjphipps_servo/image/131547629

[1designguy]

January 1:

[yazziegirl]

1. Happy New Year! http://www.pbase.com/yazziegirl/image/131549795/large

[timbg]

http://www.pbase.com/timbg/image/131549929

[texces]

gate 1 (gt)
n.
1. A structure that can be swung, drawn, or lowered to block an entrance or a passageway.
2.
a. An opening in a wall or fence for entrance or exit.
b. The structure surrounding such an opening, such as the monumental or fortified entrance to a palace or walled city.
3.
a. A means of access: the gate to riches.
b. A passageway, as in an airport terminal, through which passengers proceed when boarding or leaving an airplane.
4. A mountain pass.
5. The total paid attendance or admission receipts at a public event: a good gate at the football game.
6. A device for controlling the passage of water or gas through a dam or conduit.
7. The channel through which molten metal flows into a shaped cavity of a mold.
8. Sports A passage between two upright poles through which a skier must go in a slalom race.
9. A logic gate.
tr.v. gat·ed, gat·ing, gates
1. Chiefly British To confine (a student) to the grounds of a college as punishment.
2. Electronics To select part of (a wave) for transmission, reception, or processing by magnitude or time interval.
3. To furnish with a gate: "The entrance to the rear lawn was also gated" (Dean Koontz).
Idioms:
get the gate Slang
To be dismissed or rejected.
give (someone) the gate Slang
1. To discharge from a job.
2. To reject or jilt.

Above are some definitions so I think this will help those who only see gates as one thing. I love this challenge and is a way to think outside the box too! I'll be posting asap. I had a wedding to shoot and it is taking forever for the pics to download!

Cindi

[emmelafoto]

My 2nd.
http://www.pbase.com/image/131551886
Maaike

[janicecd]

I had a day out today photographing at 2 cemeteries in Auckland City with 2 friends. What an interesting time we had.
And I had my eye looking all the time for gates - and I was surprised at how many I found too.

http://www.pbase.com/image/131551923