Posted by Amarachi on Fri 17th Jan, 2025 - tori.ng
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.
Three sisters who took a photo with their arms wrapped around eachother on a beach in the early 1980s have recreated the photo.
“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.