Sepia Saturday 775 - Saturday 17th May 2025

 

By the time you read this I will be strolling down the promenade of a classic English seaside resort. It is therefore quite apt that this week's Sepia Saturday Call image is a group of people strolling down the promenade of a classic English seaside resort. You can join them, and you can join us, by sharing your old photographs this weekend - either your holiday snaps or your studio portraits, your family groups or your Aunty Bessie's pet cat. Just post your post on or around Saturday 17th May 2025 and add a link to the list below. And take a moment or two to see what lies ahead here on Sepia Saturday.

Sepia Saturday 774 : Saturday 10th May 2025

 

For the seven hundredth and seventy-fourth week of Sepia Saturday we have a look, and it is the look of the actress Arline Judge in a still from the 1936 film "Valiant Is The Word For Carrie". You probably don't remember the film and the plot is far too complicated to explain here, but all we are interested in at the moment is that look. It is what makes the photograph memorable, and that is the case with so many of the old photographs we treasure. We invite you to share your look - or indeed any of your old photographs - on or around Saturday 10th May 2025 and add a link to the list below. Once you have done that, you can take a look at what is to come on Sepia Saturday over the next couple of months.

Sepia Saturday 773 : Saturday 3rd May 2025

 

Our Sepia Saturday theme image this week looks at that most familiar item of household furnishing - the desk. Whether covered with books or papers, photographs or paintings, typewriters or computers; the desk is always with us. I know that these days people are enticed by laptops and palmtops and tablets you can curl up on an easy chair with, but for me you can't beat the sensible solidity of a desk. My image for Sepia Saturday 773 - post your posts on or around Saturday 3rd May 2025 and add a link to the list below - is a photograph of my desk from more than fifty years ago. For younger readers I should point out that the strange machine is in fact a typewriter! If you want to follow the theme you can feature desks or typewriters, books or papers - or you can ignore the theme all together. Just share an old image and what it means to you. 

Sepia Saturday 772 : Saturday 26th April 2025

 

Here we are again - at the seaside. Old photographs and the seaside seem to go together like .... bread and butter or fish and chips or sand and shingle or sea salt and sunburn. We invite you to share your old photographs here on Sepia Saturday by sharing a photo and the adding a link to the list below on or around Saturday 26th April 2025. And here is what lies ahead for the next couple of months on Sepia Saturday.

Sepia Saturday 771 : 19th April 2025

 

Sometimes you can spend too much time looking through a camera lens and consequently forget to put up the Sepia Saturday prompt image! My apologies to you all. Once you have looked through the viewfinder of history, why not post whatever you see and add a link to the list below on or around Saturday 19th April 2025. 

Sepia Saturday 770 : Saturday 12 April 2025

 

It's the shoes, isn't it? You can look at some old photographs and know what is going on. Here we have a beach, two rather stylish ladies, and half a man. There's nothing odd about that. The fact that they are probably going out of their way to get skin cancer and lung cancer at the same time, given the historical context, there is nothing all that odd about that either. It's the shoes! What are they doing stood there? Whose are they? You can't beat a picture that gives you more questions than answers. If you have a questioning old photo, a questionable old photo, or any old photo at all you can share it here on Sepia Saturday by posting it and adding a link to the list below.

Take a look at what questions lie around the next bend in the road here on Sepia Saturday.

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.