Swimming

I had not played with vintage for a while, so I also wanted to do a vintage tag. I found a wonderful old photograph of people swimming on the beach. I used Tim Holtz products to age it even more and colored pencils to tint it very lightly. Next, I found a picture of a contemporary bathing suit model and superimposed her on the beach. Her comment is from the old Virginia Slims ad campaign, "We've come a long way baby." I love the way that it appears that the boys in the foreground are staring at her stunned while the mother on the right seems to be quickly ushering her daughter away from this appalling scene.


When we were all small, we were thrown into the water to sink or swim. All of us became competitive swimmers, although I was the worst of the lot. My mom quit smoking when she was 50 and was worried about getting fat, so I told her, "You've made us swim all of our lives, get your fanny in the pool and work out." Mom is 81 and is still a competitive swimmer. She has been on a first place National US Master's Swim Team and holds several records. The first picture is of my Mom wearing her US National Championship medal and the other picture is of her in competition swimming backstroke.This tag is a tribute to my mom and I hope she reaches her goal of  "I'm going to outlive all of my competition!"

I apologize for the late posting but I had mine scheduled to post on Tuesday and for some reason, it did not post.