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Lens-Artists Challenge: Looking Back
Posted on October 15, 2024
A particularly interesting theme for this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge: ‘Looking back’.
If you think about it, every photo you’ve ever taken – even the one you might have captured less than a minute ago – is looking back: a split second of a memory preserved for ever (or at least until you press the ‘Delete’ button). Indeed, why do we take photos in the first place, if not to create a memento?
I’m fortunate to have many happy memories – and perhaps even luckier to be able to remember them, but I’d be lying if I said that having a photographic record hasn’t helped in that.. So, the choice wasn’t easy, but I finally settled on something.
Madame and I have been lucky enough to visit Venice four times, all for wedding anniversaries, of which three were significant milestones. This is the hotel , on the Grand Canal, that we stayed in on two of those occasions. Happy days…
Lens-Artists Challenge: Music To My Eyes
Posted on May 1, 2024
I know I wasn’t the only one whose first reaction, on seeing what this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge was, thought something along the lines of ‘Nah, what’s that even about?’ In my case there may also have been an element of ‘WTF?’
And yet – also like others – when I thought about it a little, I understood what Egidio was getting at more fully and realised I could give it a go.
Okay, so it’s just a decent enough image of a rainbow, albeit an unusually close one, but it did trigger a musical memory.
Picture this: October 1970 and it’s the first day at university (in the south of England – more specifically, Canterbury) of a callow youth from northern England. After the welcome speech from the Master of the College, the new recruits mingled and formed small groups. I found myself, with about half a dozen others, none of whom had met before, in the college room of a fellow freshman..
Being English, they put the kettle on and made tea. It was my first experience of Earl Grey (callow and northern, remember). This album – ‘A Rainbow In Curved Air’, by Terry Riley – was playing gently in the background.
Heaven help us, that was over half a century ago, but I still listen to it often and the sight of a rainbow – any rainbow – takes me back to that quiet afternoon.
Try it for yourself, if you like…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Future
Posted on April 9, 2016
When I saw that this week’s topic was ‘Future’, I knew exactly which image I wanted to use. Unfortunately, I didn’t take it (my son did) and nor do I have a copy in my library. However, the immensely talented Madame made a wall-hanging based on it, which now sits over our stairs. Here is my photograph of that:
It shows our twin grandsons taking their first unaccompanied walk together down the beach to the Arabian Gulf in Abu Dhabi. It always looked to me that they were heading off into the future.
I think I know why, too. When I was about their age now (eight), I remember a big – or so it seemed to me at the time – picture painted on the wall of the old Birkenhead Market. It showed a boy and a girl heading off down a path together towards a brightly shining sun: As I recall, it was actually an advert for childrens’ shoes and was captioned ‘The Highway To Health’. Anyway, the photo on the beach brought it back to me.
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