Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by Sean Jeating and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1.technique  2.think  3.taught  4.way  5.completely

and/or:

1.learn  2.write  3.exist  4.reading  5.without

Charlotte's colour of the month is Heavenly Blue which can be seen in the photo above with the sea caves by the ocean.

Here is my story:

Russell had sent word to Jim that the photographer would be there and might be interested in meeting the boy who had “found” the cave. Of course Jim was interested and arrived a few minutes after Marty with his own camera hanging from a strap around his neck. Marty introduced himself, “Martin Shaw, but people call me Marty,” and shook hands. “James Anderson, but everyone calls me Jim,” he said with a grin. They compared cameras for a minute, then Marty got to work, with Jim following and learning a little about lights and shadows, the best angles for different effects and where to use a flash.

Marty was most interested in the scrap of wood and asked if they knew yet how old it was. The answer was no, and there followed a long discussion on the technique of carbon dating and how nothing can exist without oxygen which is the first thing to disappear when something dies, with the carbon content gradually reducing over time and testing the levels then comparing them to other findings is a good way to estimate how old something is.

“I think I’d like to learn more about that,” said Jim, “it isn’t something taught in school though, I’d have to wait until University.” “That doesn’t leave you completely without options,” said Theo. “You can do a lot of reading at your local library, you can write to Archaeology professors for information to explain things you find in books that you don’t quite understand and of course the most obvious way of all,” he winked at Jim, “which is to hang around here and soak up the conversations.”

“Bring a notebook,” said Russell, “you can write what you see us doing and tie it in with the photos you take, just don’t touch anything without permission and gloves.”