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.

Sepia Saturday 762 15 February 2025

 

Not so much sitting on the fence, more standing on it. In case you are wondering, that's me - I am now so old I have become a Sepia Prompt. You can post old photos of fences, handsome young chaps, houses, or even me on or around Saturday 15th February 2025 and add a link to the list below. You can also post any old photo you want - we don't like rules here on Sepi Saturday, that's why we stand on the fence.

Sepia Saturday 761 : Saturday 8th February 2025

 

I'm back on my feet again - which is more than can be said about my father in this photograph taken sometime around 1930. He was doing a handstand on the seaside sands when some enterprising amateur photographer took a photograph. He probably knew that the photograph would become a perfect prompt image for Sepia Saturday ninety-five years later. So get out your old photographs - whether they be upside-down, inside-out or skew-whiff - and share them on or around Saturday 8th February 2025 by adding a link to the list below. And whilst you are standing on your head, take a look at what is around the corner here on Sepia Saturday.

Sepia Saturday 760 (1st February 2025)

 

This is your weekly call for your Sepia Saturday contributions. Please post your posts and add a link to the list below on or around Saturday 1st February 2025. Advance notice of the next few calls will go up soon (I promise).

Sepia Saturday 759 : 25 January 2025

 

Sorry this call is late, but unlike the man stood healthily outside his front door in this weeks prompt image - I have not been fit to stand anywhere.  Ive spent the last few days in bed fighting some dreadful infection of which I won't bore you with the details. Hopefully normal service will return next week. Until then post your posts on or around Saturday 25 January and leave a link on the list below.

Sepia Saturday 758 : 18th January 2025

 

You can sometimes look at old photographs of young people and lose yourself in speculation over what became of them. So many of our old photographs fall into the "unknown" category and these present the greatest opportunity for speculation. Our prompt image this week is one such photograph: I have no idea who these four young men are, but you can look at each of the faces and imagine where life took them in the sixty or seventy years after the photograph was taken. Some look confident about what life might have in store for them, some look more dubious. Photographs have that unique ability to freeze existence, to halt the constant motion picture that is life. What questions do your old pictures ask? Share the questions and even some of the answer by taking part in Sepia Saturday. Post your posts on or around Saturday 18th January 2025 and leave a link on the list below.

And you can see what is next on Sepia Saturday by looking at our next two prompts.

Sepia Saturday 757 : 11 January 2025

 

My Sepia Saturday prompt this week celebrates that great institution - the school photograph. We all have these in our collection, whether they be our own school photos, those of previous generations, or those - such as the one above - featuring unknown faces in unknown places. Schools might be places where you learnt to do what you were told, in which case you might want to feature an old school photograph from your collection this week. And, school might have been the place where you learnt to go your own way and set your own rules for life, and in this case you might want to feature any old photo you want this week. Whatever you choose, post your post on or around Saturday 11th January 2025 and add a link to the list below. And you can take a look at what is on the curriculum for the rest of the term.