Commons:Photo challenge/2025 - February - Absence

2025 – February – Absence

The new challenge features Absence

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout February UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. February 2025 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

This challenge has already ended. (refresh)

• Photo challenge/2025 - February - Absence/Voting
• Photo challenge/2025 - February - Absence/Voting/Result
• Photo challenge/2025 - February - Absence/Winners

Examples

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Entries

• 
  Absence of people and cars
• 
  Absence of people in a park
• 
  Absence of people in a park
• 
  Absence of people.
• 
  Absence of life in an house
• 
• 
  Constantly empty paper tray... because of remote work
• 
  Empty playground in Saltivskyi yard, Kharkiv
• 
  empty light bulb socket
• 
  The lost bridge
• 
  A bunch of clam shells on the shore
• 
  The remains of trees awaiting stump grinding
• 
• 
  Paysage desertique dans le parc du Connemara
• 
  Pied des falaises de Moher
• 
  An empty embankment during the storm
• 
  The Imeretinskyi seaport after demolition of commercial buildings and restaurants
• 
  The Important Bird Area in Sirius, Russia
• 
  An empty alley at the Arboretum in Adler
• 
  Two empty red Adirondack chairs, Two Jack Lake, Banff, Canada
• 
  Empty bench sitting atop a hill ravaged by the Woosley Fire, Thousand Oaks, California
• 
  Barren landscape after Woosley Fire, Thousand Oaks, California
• 
  Headless mannequins in Samarkand museum, Uzbekistan
• 
  Autumn morning in the sanatorium park, Shklo, Ukraine
• 
  Before the storm on the Ros River
• 
  An empty dock floating on Lake McDonald
• 
  A bicycle parked at the Paracas National Reserve
• 
  A Bolivian playground overgrown with weeds
• 
  Floating branches from absent trees
• 
  Absece of lifeguards in tower at night
• 
  No one watches
• 
  Absent house in gentrified seaside resort Ustka
• 
• 
• 
  Lake Lungern
• 
  Remains of former bakery and mill buildings Odkolek, Prague, Czech Republic
• 
  Please come sit
• 
  Lonely time at the sea
• 
  The Lake of Geneva in Préverenges.
• 
  Beach of the Lavezzi islands, Corsica.
• 
  Ponte de le Bande, Venezia, by night.
• 
  Where did all my friends go?
• 
• 
• 
  Niemand wartet am Bahnhof Schönfließ im Mühlenbecker Land (Brandenburg).
• 
  Absence making presence
• 
  No food or water, just ice, Ireland.
• 
  A tree full of flowers but absence of leaves
• 
  No leaves only buds
• 
• 
  No leaves for the nest
• 
  Inside the supermarket on closing day in Japan
• 
  Inside the supermarket on closing day in Japan, vegetables corner
• 
  The old Jewish cemetery in Libeň that no longer exists, Prague, Czech Republic
• 
  People's Park, Berkeley, California, cleared out in 2024 amid much protest
• 
  Remains of monastery church in Benešov, Czech Republic
• 
  No water in Borovice pond, Czech Republic
• 
  Empty bench on Watles mountain, South Tyrol, Italy
• 
  Historical house ("Krautwächterhäusel") of the guard of the vegetable fields ("Krauthügel") below fortress Hohensalzburg, Salzburg, Austria
• 
  Empty grandstand in front of mining museum, Röros, Norway
• 
  Historical dinner table in museum of Jenisch-Haus, Hamburg, Germany
• 
  Empty soba bowl and empty water glass.
• 
  Empty silver mug with 100ml-250ml scale.
• 
• 
  Lonely trunk without leaves Tamilnadu India
• 
  An abandoned broken toy plane. Taken in Padua, Italy.
• 
  An abandoned toy car. Taken in Padua, Italy.
• 
  Waiting for a ball.- Dodgers Clubhouse, Universal CityWalk Hollywood
• 
• 
  Shopping cart left behind in the snowy II. János Pál pápa tér of Budapest.
• 
  Berlin-Charlottenburg. Reste der Bogenhalle vom ehemaligen Eingang der Borsigwerke in der Chausseestraße.
• 
  Chairs in Frari Church of Venice are protected during absence of honoured church seniors
• 
  No session in the United Nations General Assembly Hall therefore Absence of the representitives
• 
  Absence of people in Hamburg's underground trains during COVID-19 pandemic times
• 
  "Stolpersteine", stumbling stones in Berlin in front of former Jewish flats to remember the forever absent Jews that were murdered bei German Facists in Word War II
• 
  Abandoned crane Kubota KX080-4 at the Princess Margriettunnel.
• 
  Box office of a Wild Mouse roller coaster with absent cashier
• 
  Boat lift with absent ship
• 
  Low tide (absence of water)
• 
  Absence of guests at the Deidesheimer Hütte during the Corona pandemic
• 
• 
  Assenza e attesa, Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta a Sutri (Lazio)
• 
  Giostra ferma senza bambini una sera a Cortona
• 
  Croatia, the coast near Brela, a bench and a shower without people.
• 
  Put van Nederhorst (municipality of De Friese Meren) abandoned children's play beach.
• 
  Berlin Breitscheidplatz. Mahnmal für die Opfer des Anschlags auf den Weihnachtsmarkt vom 19.12.2016.
• 
  Absence of water in Ireland.
• 
• 
  Empty stairs at the morning winter forest.
• 
  Where is Petra - the beloved Petra is sorely missed
• 
  This room is an extremely tidy one
• 
  Empty boxes for horses "Mireille" and "Gusman" in the Chambord castle
• 
  Female figure with missing middle section in a shop window in Venice
• 
  Fishing boat HL6 lies abandoned in the harbour of Laaxum (Laaksum). (smallest fishing port in Europe)
• 
  under construction without trees, Stuttgart
• 
• 
  the missing numbers in the elevator
• 
  ready to install on top of the building
• 
  Before customers arrive at the hotel
• 
  waiting for someone to arrive
• 
  empty chairs in Bayeux cathedral
• 
  Emmanuel Church in Bestwood, Nottingham, before a wedding
• 
  absence culture
• 
  spring fair in Speyer before opening
• 
  An old boat for crossing the Vistula River - Mięćmierz, Poland
• 
  A lonely walk through the Old Town in Lublin
• 
  Emptiness on the market square in Kazimierz Dolny
• 
  At the lunch table
• 
  Absence of essence
• 
  Covid times
• 
  Absence of residents
• 
  Darkness
• 
  Once a home, now just an empty space in Kerala, India
• 
  Absence of life, yet the illusion of thoughtfulness.
• 
  A dark empty tunnel, lit only by red lights.
• 
  No bus, nobody waiting at this bus stop in Freiham, Munich
• 
  Buildings will be going up soon here in Freiham, Munich
• 
  Missing the flood, South coast of Cornwall, UK
• 
  Waiting for sunshine and guests, Weser river banks, Rinteln, D
• 
  Kiddie rides
• 
  Strandkorb without beach
• 
  Invisible Man street performer
• 
  Missing head of Invisible Man street performer
• 
  Empty Classroom
• 
  Maison abandonnée
• 
  Nid abandonné
• 
  Tombe de Chateaubriand
• 
  Bibliothèques vides de l'ancien Palais de Justice de Béziers (Hérault)
• 
  Moon in the abyss
• 
  Absence of students in the classroom
• 
  Absence of some cows in the cowshed
• 
  Absence of passengers in the royal wagon
• 
  Absence of some petals of the flower
• 
  Lake Pian Palù (1800 m). in Stelvio National Park (Italy). Abandoned picnic bench.
• 
  Lunch break
• 
  Mountain hiking trail in Poland
• 
• 
  A street in the Old Town in Lublin
• 
  Absence of objects on the shelf
• 
  Absence of locks on the door
• 
  Absence of substance in the passing by goods train
• 
  Absence of pedestrians on the road
• 
  File:Railway tracks - there was no train
• 
  Chickens leave a dilapidated shit house at Arpisson farm (2327m) above Gimillan.
• 
  Former inhabitants of Lublin. Tenement house in the Old Town of Lublin
• 
  Absence and presence of teeth Tamilnadu India
• 
  Nobody on river
• 
  Empty pews in church
• 
  A quiet corner in the Polish Masuria - Lake Nidzkie, Poland
• 
  On an empty beach - Baltic Sea, Sarbinowo; Poland
• 
  A bench along Dongfeng Road, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China.
• 
  Gesehen in Barcelona
• 
  Cat is hungry
• 
  A completely empty farmhouse
• 
  Absence of people at Jhati Pahari railway station, West Bengal, India..jpg
• 
  Empty
• 
  Белое безмолвие
• 
  Раздетый велосипед в Нью Йорке
• 
  Неполное собрание сочинений
• 
  Table setting
• 
  Empty rest stop of bikeway in Xizhi Dist., New Taipei City at night
• 
  An empty room in a school
• 
  An empty road in rural Wisconsin
• 
  Scientific conderence in Moscow
• 
  Linden alley at Kalevankangas Cemetery in Tampere, Finland
• 
  hundreds of thousands absent humans
• 
  Man made landscape and tools close to Baz-sur-Mer
• 
  A single tree in the afternoon
• 
  The absense of visitors to the park
• 
  The absence of antique lovers at Arts Gallery
• 
  The Absence of players in the foot ball field
• 
  The absence of busses and passengers in the Bus Station Platform
• 
  The absence of decorations on the Christmas tree
• 
  Absence of believers in church
• 
  Absence of pedestrians at the crossing
• 
  Absence of a guest
• 
  Farm
• 
  Break
• 
  End of Work
• 
  The Empty Gallery
• 
  An Empty Ground
• 
  A sailboat on Adriatic sea
• 
  Lonely man on a bicycle
• 
  Empty benches in sunrise
• 
  October's Hunters full moon
• 
• 
• 
  Abandoned "Slyudyanka" base of Central Kola Geological Expedition
• 
  Father and child
• 
  Absence of the bird mother, Norderney island, East Frisia, D
• 
  Deckchairs on a cruise ship
• 
  will they come?
• 
  children were evacuated
• 
  Buteo buteo feathers in a frame
• 
  Empty plate with fork
• 
  A gull rearranges its "cloak" after a fresh snow.
• 
  Paris, November 14, 2015. The first day of the rest of our lives
• 
  Nobody in front of St. Peter's Cathedral
• 
  Nobody in the boat
• 
  Strike day. Nobody. No train. Paris Gare de Lyon, October 18, 2007
• 
  Casa diruta senza il tetto
• 
  Assenza. Giardini di Villa Albani a Roma
• 
  Tables
• 
  Absolutely nothing happened.
• 
  Lonely An L-shaped hand carts bind with extra-large orange storage plastic bin
• 
  The sea horizon is too pure. Just two seabirds did fishing.
• 
  Solar Eclipse
• 
  That landscape and building is keep absence of people and scary during evening to next morning on every year in Amuping, Daxi District, Taoyuan City.
• 
  Leere Bank vor einem Haus auf Fuerteventura
• 
  Fast leerer Airbus A320 200
• 
  Fußgängerüberweg ohne Fußgänger und Straße
• 
  Karhornbahn im Sommer
• 
  Missing brick
• 
  Lots of e-scooters on a parking, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia
• 
  Automatic river lighthouse. Yenisei River, Krasnoyarsk
• 
  Almost ready
• 
  Waiting for the audience
• 
  Deserted tourist bus on the Belgrade-Herceg Novi route during a temporary stop in the mountains
• 
  Lonely sandal in Tamilnadu India
• 
  Absence of life.
• 
  Lonely Slug.
• 
  Absence of people in an office
• 
  Absence of any other ways to follow different paths.
• 
  Cutting out the busy city life and spending time alone near a river.
• 
  Staying alone in such a place where no one is living and almost no one can reach.
• 
  To submit pictures please follow this link