For Paula’s Thursday Special this week, her Guest Challenger Debbie has asked us to come up with images around the theme of Time.
Two images from me to illustrate the relentless passage of time…in nature:
ivy on a wall, seen better days
….and it’s a long time since these instruments were used:
Instruments frozen in time
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so artistic, especially the first one, Loved so much. Thank you dear Sue, love, nia
Thank you, Nia! Glad you like these….the first one was taken yesterday, as I was strolling around a local garden – I always find something different to photograph there, and I loved the pattern of the ivy on the wall 😀
you did great. It is amazing composition with colours, pattern, etc. You are welcome, love, nia
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Well captured
Thanks! Much appreciated 🙂
This is very clever, Sue. I love the abstract quality of your first example and the documentary value of the second. I appreciate your contribution.
Thanks, Paula! The abstract appealed to me yesterday when I took that shot. Glad I used it, as it was going to be two documentary shots originally! 😀
I like the old dials and rusty machine a lot, Sue. It left me wondering what it was used for. Looks like some sort of heating boiler.
Best wishes, Pete.
This old machine was in Paddock Bunker, the alternative Cabinet War Room bunker back-up for Churchill’s cabinet located in Dollis Hill – Wikipedia has a short article here.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddock_(war_rooms)
I believe this comprised part of the generator equipment.
Good choices, Sue, particularly liked the vintage dials.
Thanks! 🙂
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Two great images, Susan.
Thank you, Mike, glad you like them 🙂
Both are very nice in very different ways…it would be had to pick a favorite here. Quite well done!
Thanks, Robert! (Only quite…?)
Both nature and man fall victim to nature in the end.
Very true, Gilly 🙂
Your ability to focus on the antique and decrepit never ceases to amaze, Sue 🙂
Haha, I think my leitmotif is decrepitude…..
Oh what amazing images of decay and deterioration, Sue. Perfect for the challenge. 🙂
Thank you, Sylvia – glad you think so!
It’s your speciality. 😄
Hmm, it would seem so!
Your leitmotif – and mine not quite so gloriously – is haunting me. Last night, a chapter called “Abandon” in Rebecca Solnit’s “A field guide to getting lost”.
Your photos express the theme beautifully and in two modes. Colour and arrangement are both perfect, as is the decrepit bean-shaped gleam on the circles in the second one. What an archive of decrepitude you must have.
So what is your leitmotif, Jo? That book sounds interesting, I must search it out.
As to your question, I have a small photographic archive of decrepitude…would that it was larger. I also have a very small archive of mental images, from before I had a camera… And a list of many, many missed opportunities, places never seen.
My leitmotif? Bark is the most long-standing.
Bark? Worse than bite?
Much worse. Bite is intermittent!
Oh….😳
So tell me about the ‘Abandon’ chapter in Solnit’s book…….
Oops, Meg – why did I call you Jo! Sorry! Trying to multitask unsuccessfully!
You could have called me something much worse! I’m honoured.
Tee hee! Waiting for your answers, Meg…. 🙂
Great texture in each shot Sue, just lovely 🙂
Thanks, Kaz! I think I’m a texture girl….
Both are fantastic, but that ivy shot is really special!
I was wandering around this little garden locally, and paid attention to the out-of-the-way bits, and that’s what I found 😀
so beautiful.
Thanks, Gavin!
Two great interpretations Sue. The first is an inspired choice and I just love the second shot with all those colours and textures
Thanks, Debbie! It was a good theme, and I didn’t want to do the obvious timepiece…