Thanks again to atupdate for hosting the most recent challenge and for his helpful comments on the successful entries. As the winner, I get to choose the theme for the next challenge.

The theme is “expressing the passage of time through photography”. Most photos reflect only a moment in time, and yet there are ways for them to reflect elapsed time in a visual way.

The most direct way is simply to photograph something that is old. This is a “Typex” machine, used for decoding secret radio messages during the Second World War. Apart from looking old, I think the machine causes us to reflect on the time taken by thousands of people (mostly women) to do this work and the big gap between this device and today’s computers.



Time and motion are connected, and a time lapse photo can often express both in the same image:



We can also use visual elements that reflect time. The top pine needles on this rock face are not as faded as the older ones on the bottom.



There are many other ways to do this. I look forward to your interpretations, and your comments on how your images reflect the theme.

This challenge will close on March 1 2023 at the same time as this posting.

The fine print:

Every week, a new theme is picked and judged by the winner of the previous week.

Rules:
1. Post ONE photo.
2. The photo must portray an interpretation of the theme.
3. Post your single picture in this thread and explain what motivated you to take the picture and/or how you feel it represents the weekly theme (especially if it's not obvious).
4. The challenge is interactive. Any response is welcome.
5. The judge will pick the WINNERS and choose one of them to be the judge for the next week.
6. This challenge runs for 7 days plus an additional day for the judge to choose the winners.
7. Any Pentax or Ricoh camera can be used.
8. Pictures can be from any time frame, not just within the week of the current theme.
9. In case the winner of a challenge is unable to become the judge for the next challenge, they will PM the #2 winner for that person to be the judge.

[aaacb]

motion blur with a watch dial, as literal of an interpretation as i could think of

[atupdate]

Preserving the past while showing it to the present.



Tim

[Hattifnatt]

Interesting theme. Since I'm some kind of a geologist, I will go with the Cliffs of Moher for this one. They were formed over 300 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period.

[gump]

It goes on forever.

[Kerrowdown]

Here's mine... a telephone that has served me well since the 50's

[rod_grant]

Railway station repurposed as Comfort station (aka toilet/bathroom)

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[Vaskebjorn]

Sousse, Tunisia.

[hcarvalhoalves]

A 6km cave nicknamed "Caverna do Diabo" (Devil's Cave). Each of these stalactites take around 100,000 years to reach this size.

IMGP9139 by Henrique Carvalho Alves, no Flickr

[ramseybuckeye]

The movement of the earth is our basis for time. As the earth rotates it takes about 24 hours for a complete rotation, and about 365 days to r"evolve around" or orbit the sun. So it appears to us that the sun rises and sets each day (in most places). The sunrise is symbolic for the start of a new day, and sunset for the end.

[Kerrowdown]

the sun rises and sets each day (in most places)

I think you've covered Scotland with the brackets.

[djb47]

Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years wearing down layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealing the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.

K30/DA 18-55

[ffking]

I guess 100s is a bit timey

[noelcmn]

Generations come and go!

[Yaki]

A walk thru 20 centuries in one shot


In the lower left part of the photo you can see a medieval Orthodox church from the 11th century, still functioning today. In the middle - ruins of Roman buildings from the 1st - 4th centuries. behind them there is an Ottoman mosque from the 16th century, still functioning today. On the left of it there are buildings from the beginning of the 20th century. Оn the upper left you can see the building of the former largest store in Bulgaria from the time of socialism - from the 1950s. Now a business center. The building on the left in front as well as the staircase are from the 21st century.