Friday, January 17, 2025 - Three sisters have recreated a photo they took of their arms wrapped around one another, mid-laughter, on a beach in the early 1980s.
“Looking at the photograph,
it really epitomizes who we are as sisters,” Pamela Cook tells CNN Travel
today.
“Us three. Laughing like
that. It’s a photo I held onto for the longest time.”
Cook says she spent years telling her two sisters, Tracey
Waygood and Elaine McCartney, that they should recreate the picture, which was
taken on Castle Beach in Cornwall, in the southwest of England, sometime around
1980.
The three sisters say they remain close and still visit
Castle Beach together, spending long days together laughing, swimming and
chatting.
The three women, who are now in their late 60s and early
70s, figured that this was the best time to do the recreation as McCartney was
diagnosed with dementia a few years ago.
“We know that time is precious, so we make the most of it,” says Waygood. “We wanted to make sure we did it. It was really important to us.”
“It was always a big group of
us,” recalls Waygood. “We’re a large family, and then there were always cousins
and other friends, and there would always be a good crowd on the beach.”
“I don’t know what we were
laughing about when the photo, the original photograph, was taken, but we were
still laughing when the last one was taken,” she says.
Waygood’s advice for anyone hoping to follow in their
footsteps and recreate a favourite photo is “Don’t wait for perfection, just
get out and do it.”
“Tomorrow might not be
there,” she says.
As for Cook, she now has the two shots framed in her home.
“What I loved about it when I
saw the two photographs, was that even though it wasn’t accurate, it wasn’t
perfect — I’d captured what I wanted to capture, and that was the three of us
being who we are,” says Cook
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