Tag: history
So much for Sunday
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vehicle Details
History has evidently taught us nothing
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Get your motor started with the entries in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vehicle Details
Weekly Photo Challenge: Humanity
Where once the world had been so small
that letters wore stamps
postmarked weary
like travellers on foot
siberia to africa
in another life
another time
where once eyes wide
with all that was wonderful
in this bright new world
saw promise and hope
reflected upon the screen
now
it is all of humanity
that pours forth
ignoring and repeating
reviling and revolting
having forgotten history
and how
to just turn it off
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Stay tuned to the entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Humanity.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Photograph Something New
Some of us are curators for OPS – other people’s stuff – whether we choose to or have the mantle bestowed upon us by family and friends. With some of it, we scratch our heads and wonder what the initial attraction was and then gently pass it along; other objects have their own fascinating history – where they came from, whose hands caressed their smooth surfaces in passing, why they were so well-loved in the first place. These things become our legacy, but unless we take the time to tell their stories and get others to look at them in a new way, it is just OPS…
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Photograph Something New asks us to cast an eye on our immediate surroundings – See what fresh perspectives have been captured there!
For more on giving your belongings a voice, have a look at What is the Memory Book?