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Thursday’s Special: Time (response to guest challenge)
One of the three sundials in Zagreb can be found in the oldest street in the city, Tkalčićeva. It’s summer, early in the morning, a week day, and many of the residents have fled the town to enjoy their holidays at the coast.
The place looks still and strangely empty, as if frozen in time.
(click on the image to zoom in)
This is my response to Debbie’s guest challenge time. Check out her post and join us this Thursday with your interpretations of the theme. Your links are eagerly awaited; link here and to Debbie’s guest post.
Click on the titles bellow to see the entries to this challenge:
Time by the Jagged Man
Time by Restless Jo
Time by Middleton Road
Time by Pommepal
Time by Susan Judd
Time by Art is Horseshit
Time by Irene Waters
Time by Tish Farrell
Time by Klara
Time by Anna
Time window by Tobias
Right time by Tobias
Lost in Translation 
Wow this place looks familiar to me (😉). It’s a lovely shot Paula and so inviting with that pathway leading you in. Gorgeous colours too!
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😀 Thank you, Desley. I appreciate the extra effort you put to see this 🙂 This is my home town and I want to make it pretty 🙂
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Of course! Oh it’s your hometown? It’s gorgeous. You’ve done it proud.
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😀
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The whole colour palette seems to belong to the past, as does the figure in the street. As you often do, you manage multiple interpretations of the theme in one image.
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🙂 Thank you kindly Meg. The figure you mentioned (I guess you were referring to a female figure) is a bronze statue of a famous writer from Zagreb from some past times.
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It does look frozen in time. So quiet and still. I enlarged it because I thought it was really a painting! Lovely.
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Oh I am glad you have zoomed in DM 🙂 and so happy that you like it. Thank you.
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Paula,
The photo is great! Nice all the way around!
Here is my take on your guest’s challenge: http://daffodilhillphotography.com/2015/08/12/thursdays-special-time/
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And you are faithful to b&w still 🙂 Thank you very much John. I am enjoying your close-ups.
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I won’t have “time” to work on anything photo related for a few days. So I had to use what was available….
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I hope that you are well now, and that you found the work you had been looking for. There is opening for December for colour challenge 🙂 So either Thursday in any of the first three weeks, cause later on it is 24th and 31st which are not good dates for our crowd.
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How about the 3rd of December ? I am fine with coming up with a theme as well.
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That sounds perfect John. I look forward to it very much. On Scheduled challenges page you can see the themes that have been and will be used this year. I am sure it will be no brainer for you to come up with something tha none of us have thought of before 🙂
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You give me to much credit but thanks for the kind words Paula.
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It does look strangely silent and frozen. A very interesting photo.
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Many thanks Suzanne 🙂
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Beautiful shot Paula and a great interpretation of the theme. I would love to be walking into that photo right now
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Interesting shot, Paula…a definite moment in time, strangely frozen…
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🙂 thank you, Sue. I look forward to your entry if you decide to post.
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Just posted!
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And it was a wonderful surprise. Not one, but two different takes on the theme. I have displayed your macro shot, cause I am a sucker for macro and I find it more creative of the two, but I assure you I love your take on the obsolete instrument as well. Have a good Thursday, Sue!
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Glad you liked them Paula, and pleased you display my creative image! And I hope you have a good Thursday 🙂
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Ha la leggerezza di un antico acquerello …..
Bellissima interpretazione!
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Voleva vere Zagabria ed adesso si puoi vedela. (Mi correggi per favore? :D)
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Ciao, Paula!
“you wanted to see Zagabria and now you can see it” = “volevi vedere Zagabria e adesso puoi vederla”..
Baci grossi,
A.
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😀 I made fewer mistakes than I had thought. I appreciate this a lot Anna 🙂
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Another aspect that strikes me about this image is that it’s got the air of a parallel universe – yet another take on time. The way you’ve composed it invites the viewer to step into the path as if through some portal, rather like Alice going through the mirror into Looking Glass Land. Very very intriguing, Paula.
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Spot on analysis dearest Tish 🙂
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Not quite to the point, Paula, but then, you wouldn’t want me to be, would you? I hope you like it anyway. It would probably have gone well for Debbie’s Look up Look down, but sadly I never did get to fly. 🙂
https://restlessjo.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/the-time-of-my-life/
I like your fairy tale snippet, too 🙂
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Great to see you had such fun Jo. Your post really responds to the theme and Debbie will love it. Here I chose to display the one that I found the most relevant 😀
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It has to be Swatch then 🙂 I almost put a comment to that effect. I have a Look up Look down in mind for Debbie, whenever I get to post it. 🙂
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Certainly frozen in time. Where have all the people gone, looks almost ominous, but I love the colours. I’m cheating a bit this week and “saving time”…. https://memoriesaremadeofthisblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/time-piece/
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Lovely examples, Pommepal. Thank you.
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Beautiful and interesting photo, Paula. I’ve never seen a vertical sundial before.
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🙂 Thank you
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Love those empty streets. Oslo is at its best during Yule (Christmas) and Easter when all the farmers have left the city to visit their home places on the countryside.
Here’s my entry: https://artishorseshit.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/the-best-antiques/
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That’s odd.. our farmers are unusually busy around Christmas bringing produce from their farms around Zagreb and supplying our produce markets. I would love to have Zagreb empty in winter, but it never happens.
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The “farmers” in Oslo are usually students and young workers that moved here to work/study. During the holidays, they return to their home places to visit.
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Ah, that type of farmers…
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Your photo does look surreal as though it is frozen in time.
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Here’s my walk through time, Paula: http://tishfarrell.com/2015/08/13/walking-through-time-on-lincolns-steep-hill/
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You’ve shared the most scenic street in Britain for this challenge. I am happy Tish. I hope that I’ll be lucky to visit it some day. That cathedral looks glorious. Thank you.
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I thought this would appeal to you 🙂
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so, here comes Thursday ;-). lovely colours. nice atmosphere, I looove early mornings in summertime.
http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2015/08/thursday-special-time.html
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🙂 where in the God’s name did you find those hats?
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Riga 😉
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I posted a view of Castello Sforzesco, Milan…
The tower clock has been telling the time since 15th Century!
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Meraviglioso! Ti ringrazio, Anna!
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Grazie a te , Paula!
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Nice colors…
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I am glad you like it, Lor 🙂
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Really fantastic photo for time challenge.
So many time layers in one picture.
It looks and feels like early color postcards.
Sundial hiding in plain sight and telling the current time.
Statue depicting someone from the past.
Path leading to modern men’s favorite pass time (sitting in the pub)
I guess that this is one of timeless streets that looked pretty much the same 100 years ago so to conclude Time Time Time.
Bravo!!!!
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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Very nice style to this one and the colour is great. Can I ask if you added a little HDR treatment to this one?
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Oh yes I did 🙂 Usually I take several bracketted exposures, but this time it was a very hot morning and I was there only for a few minutes to snap it, so I had to apply fake HDR later.
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It’s a great shot and the HDR works very well for this one.
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Thank you very much, Mark 🙂 Did you start you holiday?
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I have 3 more days, so sad :(. I spent some time enjoying the country side and I think I will post a photo very soon. It was fun taking landscape shots so different than street work, I really enjoyed it.
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I guess it is more relaxing than street photography. I look forward to seeing your photos, Mark.
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Intriguing shot and magical colours. Hometown? You have succeeded in making it pretty!
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Thank you very much Leya 🙂
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Gorgeous colours and a very nice composition, Paula. I like how the trees frame the image. The bars on either side of the pathway act as leading lines, guiding the viewer’s eyes right through to the sculpture.
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It’s in my home town 🙂 Thank you so much.
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