Thought | Remembrance | Reflect
Continuing with the "Give Thanks For" theme. This time it's about giving thanks for the memories.
Photography has always been important to me as a way to capture moments in time; a way to bring the past into the present, to look back, reflect and remember.
I received my first camera for Christmas 1976. The photos below are some of the very first photos taken at the end of that year and the beginning of 1977 - you can just see the year on the album in the background. There's photo of my dad sleeping in front of the TV, mum and dad in front of the Riverview Hotel that was our home for awhile, a family photo at some creek somewhere, my gorgeous cat Brandy and one of the birds we had. Another is of my friends and I on arrival at Townsville College of Advanced Education ready to start on our new adventure in life, 17 and doing a Diploma of teaching, one of the classes I did 'prac' with in my first year, and one of a friend who has been part of my life for a long, long time now.
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
Aaron Siskind
However, the photo that really shows today's 'real life' is this one. I went down to the chicken coop to collect the eggs and got rather a surprise when I looked in to discover a carpet python very happily asleep in one side of the nesting box. After much fuss Steve managed to get it out and down into the pony trail area. I'm not sure what it had to eat as there were two eggs in the other side, but there was a definite bulge. I was amazed that Barossa appeared to be content to sit in the other side to lay her egg. That's the first python I've seen down here.