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Frozen in Time
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Time in Motion
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More time and motion
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Going back in time
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Frozen, thinking it was a dummy advertising a dress shop she gave me a real shock when she moved.
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I have attempted myself to go back in time.
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Time is important at Flinders Street Station if you are to catch the train on time.
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This, however, is the photo that I think really shows time in so many different ways. We have my Mum, at 87, who has seen a lot in her time. Muffin, a puppy, who thinks time belongs to her and at this age we were wishing time would hurry along so she would stop piddling and chewing in inappropriate places. Bundy and Roger, at the same point in time, both feeling the passage and ravages of time. I know that there are three visible time pieces in this photo (but you will be lucky to pick out more than 1). Roger collects clocks and they stop for no-one. However, the item that for me is the most representative of time is the memoir sitting on the table. A memoir tells of a past time and life by an in the present time narrator. The past they relate is not the past that was lived but rather the time as the present day person constructs from memory. Why do they go back in time? Maybe to make sense of a time past but I believe rather, it is to create a future. Memoir for me is the ultimate in time travel.
In response to the Weekly Photo Challenge
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
So fascinating the way you push yourself to interpret each prompt in imaginative ways.
I love the sculptures of the people and the horses with the suggestion of animation amidst the knowledge of stillness. I think that might have been intended in the Lascaux Cave paintings with the numerous images of animals overlaid on similar images. Squint and there is motion
And the one of your mom, Roger, Bundy, and Muffin, each at such different stages of their lives, time meaning more or less or nothing to each of them, and you as the photographer, being aware of all.
Now, another question about time, sort of. How is your thesis coming? Well, I hope.
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Thanks Sharon. The creativity of the interpretation is part of the fun. Sometimes I get an immediate plan for the post, other times I let the photos fall into the prompt. This one was one of the latter.
You are probably right re Lascaux Caves. Roger was lucky enough to see them before they were closed to the public. When we went we went to some other caves but still amazing to consider life then.
I still have a little bit to do. Quite daunting but I am going to get there hopefully this week but definitely by the next week.
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What a great response to the theme. Well done Irene.
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Thanks Miriam. Glad you liked it.
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Memoir writer – the ultimate time traveller. What an interesting way of looking at it.
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What a wonderful take on the WPC challenge Irene. Love the photo especially of you and Roger from your earlier time travels. No wonder you jumped when she moved 😉 But the most poignant for me, naturally, is your exellent definition of what a memoir really is and why we who write memoir feel so compelled to do so. I truly do believe that it’s central message is all about reconstructing the past as we write in the present, with reflection, and so giving hope for the future 🙂
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Thank you Sherri. It was quite funny as I had no idea she was alive. Glad you like my thoughts on memoir. l don’t believe you can go into the future without memoir and without memoir you don’t have an identity. I have been trying to think about the big difference that makes some people write fiction and others memoir. I’m getting close to writing a post on it but it won’t be until after I finish all this stuff. So glad you made headway this last week. Hope this week sees you smiling at the end of it. 🙂
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I really look forward to that post Irene, it will be so good to read it. I love everything you write, but especially about memoir whatever it is. I am smiling Irene, you’ll be pleased do know, and still writing. I feel that I’m back in the flow of my memoir again and I don’t want it to stop this time. I am like that little engine that could…as I know you are right now with your Wednesday in sight and your huge smile at the end of it 😀 Keep going my friend…a.l.m.o.s.t. there… 🙂
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I just hope I remember every thing I am planning on writing when I have finished. I should start making a list. Great the flow is happening Sherri. We are both getting near. 🙂
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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Great idea…stopping time. Nice post, Irene.
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Thanks Jane. It would be nice if we could stop time (as long as it was at a time of our own choosing.)
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You have lots of time! 😉 Don’t you wish that were true! I especially like the last photo and the touch-points to time.
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I will have lots of time. Glad you liked the last photo. Points to time – I like that.
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