Our theme image for Sepia Saturday 197 does not come from one of the on-line collections on Flickr Commons. Let's face it, no world-class image collection would give album space to this blurred, scratched, undefined, and plain boring image. In fact it comes from the collection of that great photographer, Frank Fieldhouse (AKA "Uncle Frank"), and is entitled "The Pennines (From Express), 1941". Dusty, dirty, and plain as it is, it reminds us that we all have such images in our collections - and sometimes they can be as revealing as a picture postcard. So for Sepia Saturday 197 we are inviting you to by-pass the best, avoid the crystal clear, and focus your attention on the less than perfect, because, as we all know, all too often, life is less than perfect. Everything else about Sepia Saturday remains the same : just post your post on or around Saturday 5 October and link your post to the Linky List below.
I know what you are all going to say - "we don't have any bad photos in our collections", but, fear not, our focus on the unfocused is for one week only. After that, we revert to the normal Sepia Saturday approach - and here are the next two calls so you can do a little planning in advance.
198 : It is 100 years since HMS Queen Elizabeth was launched at Portsmouth. Whilst this is not the Queen Elizabeth, it matters not, because in SS 198 we celebrate the start of something new. It might be a life, it might be a love, it might be a a new chicken coop or it might be a mighty ocean liner.
199 : For Sepia Saturday 199 we celebrate acting and theatre. And dressing up, and silly hats, and daft trousers, and fire escapes, and - anything else you fancy.
Before you dash off in search of the plain and ordinary, the mathematicians amongst you will you realised from the number sequence above that we are rapidly approaching our very special double century celebrations. We have something very special planned for Sepia Saturday 200 which I will tell you about as soon as Marilyn reminds me what it is.
At last! Something I can jump in on. I've got loads of bad photos.
ReplyDeleteTee Hee! First for once in my life....
ReplyDeletenot very well at the moment..but trying to catch up!
ReplyDeletea brief reflection on the imperfections of trying to document our family histories - how little we know about the pets of our forebears.
ReplyDeleteI have lots of not very good pictures, but I could only find one that was bad enough for this theme!
ReplyDeletePhotos of family members apparating in 1925.
ReplyDeleteWell Kristin, I have one from 1925 too. I'm sure we're in for a laugh riot this week.
ReplyDelete1952 and clearing out.
ReplyDeleteA brilliant choice, Alan, which has inspired me to write about two of the most special photos (negatives) in my collection.
ReplyDeleteA series of photos from someone's trip to visit a soldier, somewhere. Blurry, backlit and deliciously curious.
ReplyDeleteAlex - your link is redirecting to that webring again.
ReplyDeleteI'm going blind looking at all these old photos:)
ReplyDeleteWell, I give you not only out of focus but underexposed and grainy! And if these photos had been anything else, they would have been failures, as far as I'm concerned!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad to know that lots of others have awful photos in their collections, too. And what fun to be able to share them. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone else's photos.
ReplyDeletePerhaps not the worst of photos but it wold be nice if these were better of this plane crash. There are a couple of better ones in the NSW Library.
ReplyDeleteGlad to find out not all pictures were thrown out! They were being saved for this post!!!
ReplyDeleteNot many terrible photos in my collection. I think my grandmother only kept the better ones.
ReplyDeleteIt's still Saturday, so I'm not late...but in a mad rush! Here's a blurry me!
ReplyDeleteThanks Whowerethey - I might just remove that from my layout. It seems to be causing problems for a couple of us.
ReplyDeleteNot one of mine, but blurry nevertheless.
ReplyDeleteBetter later than never - sort of!
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