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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.

 

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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.

 

 

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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

Paula
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70 responses to “Thursday’s Special: Time (response to guest challenge)”

  1. desleyjane Avatar
    desleyjane

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      😀 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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      1. desleyjane Avatar
        desleyjane

        Of course! Oh it’s your hometown? It’s gorgeous. You’ve done it proud.

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        1. Paula Avatar
          Paula

          😀

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  2. morselsandscraps Avatar
    morselsandscraps

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      🙂 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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  3. DailyMusings Avatar
    DailyMusings

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      Oh I am glad you have zoomed in DM 🙂 and so happy that you like it. Thank you.

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  4. Thursday’s Special: Time | Daffodil Hill Photography Avatar
    Thursday’s Special: Time | Daffodil Hill Photography

    […] I love wrist watches. Just love them period. And I am amazed at how many flavors there are of them. As it is with many things in life there is an irony to that. Why? Because when I wear a watch it will slow down. Now I haven’t tried wearing a wind-up watch as the one I inherited from my dad do not functional at this time. So in that quirky light here are two shots of watches for Paula’sThursday Special: Time. […]

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  5. The Jagged Man Avatar
    The Jagged Man

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      And you are faithful to b&w still 🙂 Thank you very much John. I am enjoying your close-ups.

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      1. The Jagged Man Avatar
        The Jagged Man

        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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        1. Paula Avatar
          Paula

          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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          1. The Jagged Man Avatar
            The Jagged Man

            How about the 3rd of December ? I am fine with coming up with a theme as well.

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            1. Paula Avatar
              Paula

              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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              1. The Jagged Man Avatar
                The Jagged Man

                You give me to much credit but thanks for the kind words Paula.

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  6. Suzanne Avatar
    Suzanne

    It does look strangely silent and frozen. A very interesting photo.

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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      Many thanks Suzanne 🙂

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  7. Debbie Smyth Avatar
    Debbie Smyth

    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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  8. Sue Avatar
    Sue

    Interesting shot, Paula…a definite moment in time, strangely frozen…

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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      🙂 thank you, Sue. I look forward to your entry if you decide to post.

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      1. Sue Avatar
        Sue

        Just posted!

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        1. Paula Avatar
          Paula

          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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          1. Sue Avatar
            Sue

            Glad you liked them Paula, and pleased you display my creative image! And I hope you have a good Thursday 🙂

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  9. 76sanfermo Avatar
    76sanfermo

    Ha la leggerezza di un antico acquerello …..
    Bellissima interpretazione!

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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      Voleva vere Zagabria ed adesso si puoi vedela. (Mi correggi per favore? :D)

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      1. 76sanfermo Avatar
        76sanfermo

        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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        1. Paula Avatar
          Paula

          😀 I made fewer mistakes than I had thought. I appreciate this a lot Anna 🙂

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  10. Tish Farrell Avatar
    Tish Farrell

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      Spot on analysis dearest Tish 🙂

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  11. The time of my life! | restlessjo Avatar
    The time of my life! | restlessjo

    […] it with me.  Please click on the links to see Debbie’s wonderful post, and Paula’s interpretation of it.  I hope I can play my part in making Thursday […]

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  12. restlessjo Avatar
    restlessjo

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      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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      1. restlessjo Avatar
        restlessjo

        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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  13. Time piece. Paula’s Thursday Special… | Memories are made of this

    […] Paula’s Thursday Special is a guest challenge this week. Debbie has chosen the subject of time. […]

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  14. pommepal Avatar
    pommepal

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      Lovely examples, Pommepal. Thank you.

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  15. Lignum Draco Avatar
    Lignum Draco

    Beautiful and interesting photo, Paula. I’ve never seen a vertical sundial before.

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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      🙂 Thank you

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  16. The Best Antiques | artishorseshit

    […] https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/thursdays-special-time-response-to-guest-challenge-2/ […]

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  17. Cardinal Guzman Avatar
    Cardinal Guzman

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      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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      1. Cardinal Guzman Avatar
        Cardinal Guzman

        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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        1. Paula Avatar
          Paula

          Ah, that type of farmers…

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  18. Thursday’s Special: Time | Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist)

    […] response to Paula’s Thursday’s Special  which this week has been set by guest challenger  Debbie from Travel with […]

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  19. Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist Avatar
    Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

    Your photo does look surreal as though it is frozen in time.

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  20. Walking through time on Lincoln’s Steep Hill | Tish Farrell

    […] Debbie Smyth, at Thursday’s Special is asking us to think about time. Please visit Debbie and Paula for their own interpretations of the […]

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  21. Tish Farrell Avatar
    Tish Farrell

    Here’s my walk through time, Paula: http://tishfarrell.com/2015/08/13/walking-through-time-on-lincolns-steep-hill/

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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      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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      1. Tish Farrell Avatar
        Tish Farrell

        I thought this would appeal to you 🙂

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  22. klara Avatar
    klara

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      🙂 where in the God’s name did you find those hats?

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      1. klara Avatar
        klara

        Riga 😉

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  23. 76sanfermo Avatar
    76sanfermo

    I posted a view of Castello Sforzesco, Milan…
    The tower clock has been telling the time since 15th Century!

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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      Meraviglioso! Ti ringrazio, Anna!

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      1. 76sanfermo Avatar
        76sanfermo

        Grazie a te , Paula!

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  24. lumar1298 Avatar
    lumar1298

    Nice colors…

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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      I am glad you like it, Lor 🙂

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  25. bumbartusti Avatar
    bumbartusti

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      🙂 🙂 🙂

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  26. Mark Kertesz Photography Avatar
    Mark Kertesz Photography

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      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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      1. Mark Kertesz Photography Avatar
        Mark Kertesz Photography

        It’s a great shot and the HDR works very well for this one.

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        1. Paula Avatar
          Paula

          Thank you very much, Mark 🙂 Did you start you holiday?

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          1. Mark Kertesz Photography Avatar
            Mark Kertesz Photography

            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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            1. Paula Avatar
              Paula

              I guess it is more relaxing than street photography. I look forward to seeing your photos, Mark.

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  27. Leya Avatar
    Leya

    Intriguing shot and magical colours. Hometown? You have succeeded in making it pretty!

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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      Thank you very much Leya 🙂

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  28. Uday Narayanan Avatar
    Uday Narayanan

    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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    1. Paula Avatar
      Paula

      It’s in my home town 🙂 Thank you so much.

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