Nowadays it’s easy to take a photo with your phone. We have hundreds and hundreds of images clogging up our phones that we put on social media. But remember the days of having to get photos developed and waiting days for them to be ready? I was so excited to go and collect them to see how they turned out – only to find that half of them were no good, as I’d managed to cut people out of the photo or it was too dark. But I do have some that I cherish and which I’ve kept in an album. I also have some displayed around the house of family and friends. They always make me smile when I see them.
So your prompt this week is
PHOTOGRAPHS
What photographs are precious to you? Do you have albums full of old photos? You can write a true-life piece or something fictional – maybe a story about a photograph that’s important to someone, that they’ve held onto for years, or maybe it’s a crucial piece of evidence in a crime.
You don’t have to share your work, but I always enjoy seeing what you come up with if the prompt gives you inspiration. Here is the work you shared on the last prompt BEAUTY.
Yes, to the starving, pizza is a beautiful thing! Myself, I find beauty in nature; plants, animals, people that you can see are beautiful on the inside.
natural beauty
veiled in sensual perfume
all she needs to wear
My sister-in-law was what you would call drop-dead gorgeous. I envied her and wished I had the same looks.
I didn’t know then that it took her 2 hours to put on her makeup to create what we all saw. She was not beautiful at all. I could now see why it took her 2 hours to put on her make-up. She created a face that was not her.
After seeing this, I no longer envied her beauty. It was only skin deep in reality. I would rather be me.
There is beauty all around us if we just choose to see it. I hate spiders, but think their webs, especially when bejewelled with morning dew, are totally awesome.
I used the photo of one of the world’s ugliest dogs for another challenge, and thought the dog has a certain charm. You can read that entry here if you wish.
I see beauty in the night sky, the landscape, people, birdsong, animals, of course dogs, music, plants and poetry. The sand art on the beach as the water recedes is picturesque, a once in a lifetime sight before it is washed away on the incoming tide.
Some of the responses to my Three Things Challenge have been wonderful.
We all see things differently, but IMO if you look beyond the outer casing, there is quite often a treasure therein.
Wilf Leahy:
0430hrs on a summer morning I open the gate to the allotment and drive to my plot parking at the bottom of the plot. I sit and look out over the valley then getting out of the car I bend over, rub my hands in the morning dew then hands to my face thinking what a beautiful view. I have been to many countries and seen many lovely places but none as beautiful as the English countryside: the quiet majestic countryside beautiful plants and trees so peaceful nature the God of all things beautiful. That’s beautiful to me.
Beauty can be on the inside, you don’t have to look amazing to be alive and well thought of. If people could read your thoughts? How would they interpret them. Odd or plain, ugly or old? It’s your brain and thought processes are important. Consider the world around you and how people are perceived. Media makes things worse.
Beauty (shadorma)
Young beauties
Skin smooth rose petals
Lips plump fruit
Hair fine silk
Life a freshly planted field
Just waiting for rain
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An old photo of my dad taken in the 1940s.
Esther Chilton 
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