Monday, March 27, 2017

Sepia Saturday 361: Heads Off to Fun



I loved the prompt this week. We weren't clever enough to think of posing this way. My family beach photos are standard fare. 

This photo of my sister and me makes me laugh. We look so helpless and puzzled, like we just landed on Grand Beach, Manitoba from another planet. I'm guessing our father was manning the camera and shouting instructions for us to look like we're having fun. That never works does it? 

I'm fond of this photo because my father looks like he's enjoying himself. He would come to the beach on the weekends and I believe he came by train, as we did . . . but we got to stay during the week as well.
There was a plan to take my photo every year under the little tree and there would be a record of
both of us growing. I don't think the plan worked out as I could find only two photos, perhaps two years apart.

And finally, two of my favorite beach photos taken sixty-six years and eight thousand sixty-six miles apart. I felt the same joy of the moment: warm clear water, silence but for lapping waves, blue sky, contentment. 

Grand Beach circa 1947


Angel Island, Indonesia, December 2013

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11 comments:

  1. You might think your photos are standard fare, but I am sure to your family they are precious memories. The colours in the final photograph are amazing, and I love the idea of the same pose years apart.

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  2. On seeing your first photo, my first thought was, that's Wilson, the volleyball totem that Tom Hanks' character invents in the movie Cast Away. Lovely beach memories but the last is brilliant!

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    1. I cried when Wilson was lost...really cried.

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    2. Funny, I thought the same thing abiut Alan m's post this week, before I read this.

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  3. Those last two photos are especially wonderful, as is your description of the sense of contentment evoked.

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  4. LOVE the 1947/2013 shots! We're having a snowstorm here in Maine; that warm water looks delicious!

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  5. My favorite photo here is the one of your Dad looking so relaxed with his two girls. It looks very shallow. I don't tend to think of sand and waves on lake beaches.

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    1. I mean the water looks shallow.

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  6. The Tree Idea is a really good one! Much more fun than the usual indoor 'pencil-line' against a wall or door frame .
    Lovely Photos Helen.

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  7. Great scope of ages, distances, and beach ideas...I don't think I ever saw a beach with a tree, especially a nice small one which provided shade!

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  8. Your beach memories are so sweet. In some ways they remind me of my own summers when Daddy's day-off was every Tuesday. That's when we went to the beach. He rented a raft for the day and would pull us out into the ocean and shoot us back to shore on the next big wave. No pictures though.

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