Sepia Saturday 769 : 5th April 2025

 

What are you stood around for, looking as miserable as sin? A funeral perhaps? The final day of the trial for murder by poisoning of the family matriarch maybe? Surely it can't be a wedding, and if it is it must be a particularly unsuitable wedding. Perhaps grandfather is about to wed a 18 year old chorus girl and the rest of the family sees the family fortune dancing off into the wings. Who knows? And that is one of the delightful aspects of old, found photographs: they are like a single page torn out of a substantial work of fiction. Whatever the start or whatever the end of the story told by your old photographs, we would love to see them. So share an old photograph on or around Saturday 5th April and add a link to the list below. And take a look at the starting points of so many other old stories by glancing at our future Sepia Saturday prompts.

Sepia Saturday 768 : 29th March 2025

 

There are few things which can compare to the pleasures of sitting back, putting your feet up and reading a good back. Amongst the few, however, is the pleasures of sitting back, putting your feet up and sorting through a pile of old photographs. Just as a good novel guarantees that you are never sure where the plot is going to take you next, a good collection of old photographs means that you are likely to be taken to the most unexpected places and unexpected times. It is this pleasure, this uncertainty, that we celebrate here on Sepia Saturday. This is our weekly invitation to sit back, put your feet up, and embark on suck a journey of exploration .... on or around Saturday 29th March 2025 - and when you have done so to add a link to the list below. And then you can sit back, put your feet up and see what we have in store for April.

Sepia Saturday 767 : Saturday 22 March 2025

 

I can't really explain why, but there is something about the photograph that is our prompt image this week that reminds me of Bonnie and Clyde. Not that I'm suggesting that this charming group of ladies and girls are about to drive into the local town, guns in hand, and rob the local bank. Perhaps it is the car that sparks off a series of visual synapses that carry my mind to the film of Bonnie and Clyde. If nothing else it illustrates the ability of olfactory photographs to transport us to all sorts of different places - from a picnic site in the English countryside to the wild, Wild West. And here is your weekly opportunity to transport yourselves and your followers to unexpected places by submitting your Sepia Saturday submission on or around Saturday 22nd March 2025 and adding a link to the list below. 

Sepia Saturday 766 : Saturday 15 March 2025

 

In these uncertain times, what can you do other than have a good time? If old photographs celebrate anything, it is having a good time. In years gone by, people wouldn't waste precious film by taking endless photographs of their breakfast, or themselves looking moodily into a mirror. When people were laughing, having fun, going to the seaside, enjoying time with friends - that is when the camera would come out. Our theme image this week features my Auntie Annie left) and Uncle Harry (next to her with a grin as big as the English Channel) having a good time at the seaside. And you can have a good time here on Sepia Saturday by sharing your old photographs on or around Saturday 15th March 2025 and adding a link to the list below.

Sepia Saturday 765 : 8th March 2025

 

I'm not entirely sure what is going on in this week's Sepia Saturday prompt image. We have a young lady with what looks like a very fashionable 1920s hair style posing for a studio photograph - but what is going on with her hands? It almost looks like she was holding a mid twentieth century telephone but that has been removed from the image by some twenty-first century Photoshop magic! I suppose she could be brushing her hair, but it would appear to be a convoluted way of doing so. Let it remain a mystery and let us be content with the fact that you can't always find answers when you are exploring the fascinating world of old photographs. 

You can share your exploration by sharing a link to your old photographs on or around Saturday 8th March 2025 and adding a link to the list below. 

Sepia Saturday 764 : 1 March 2025

 

What could be better? A sweet that is food and warmth! You would never get away with advertising it like that today, but times change - even if our love of sweet and sticky things doesn't. This little advert is our Sepia (or Sweetia) Saturday theme this week and it can take you wherever you want - to tins of toffees, to old adverts, to children, or wherever you want to go in terms of your old photographs. Just unwrap your posts on or around Saturday 1st March 2025 and add a link to the list below. And take a look at the other selections we have in the box for the month of March:-

Sepia Saturday 763 : 22 February 2025

 

When I put this Sepia Saturday prompt together I went searching through my digital image archives and came up with this slightly musical image. I have called it "Singing Along" and credited it to "AB Collection", but I must confess that I am not sure where it is from and I don't seem to be able to find the original hard copy. In some ways this makes it even more suitable for Sepia Saturday - it is an orphan image looking for love. I'm not sure what the five of them were singing, but I hope that it was something suitably sepia. And all you need to do to join in with the chorus this week is to post your own old photograph on or around Saturday 22 February 2025 and add a link to the list below. And during the guitar solo, you might want top cast an eye on what is around the corner.