Sepia Saturday 404 : 3 February 2018

SEPIA SATURDAY 404 : Saturday 3 February 2018

Students of Margaret St. Ledger performing The Dance of the Hours, ca. 1916

DANCE : PERFORMANCE : COSTUMES : STAGE

It is February and the source of our Sepia Saturday prompt images this month is the Flickr Commons stream of the State Library of Queensland. For Sepia Saturday 404 (post your sepia posts on or around Saturday 3 February 2018 and add a link to the list below) we have a century old photograph of some students performing The Dance Of The Hours. You can interpret the prompt in any way you want - the choice is up to you.

Our next two prompts are listed below - full details of the source of these images can be found HERE

Sepia Saturday 403 : 27 January 2018

SEPIA SATURDAY 403 : 27 January 2018

Vice-Regal Lodge Boudoir, Dublin City

ROOMS : FURNITURE : BOUDOIRS : INTERIORS : COVERS

This is the last of our current round of prompt images from the collection of the National Library of Ireland and it features a late Victorian photograph of the boudoir of the Vice-Regal Lodge in Dublin. So it is time to look out all your boudoir photographs and share them with the rest of the Sepia Saturday community. Simply post your post on or around Saturday 27th January 2018 and add a link to the list below.

In February we are moving onto theme images from the State Library of Queensland and, in order that you can get some preparation in, here are the first two. The full list and potential themes can be found by visiting HERE.

Sepia Saturday 402 - 20th January 2018

SEPIA SATURDAY 402 : 20 January 2018

Cemetery, Glasnevin, Ireland by Robert French : c. 1910

GRAVEYARDS : DEATH : MEMORIALS : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

For Sepia Saturday 402 (Post your posts on or around 20th January 2018) we have another image from the collection of the National Library of Ireland and this one provides an aerial view of Glasnevin Cemetery in County Dublin, Ireland. You can choose how to follow this prompt yourselves, and now doubt however you do so, you will be dead right.

Whilst you give this some grave thoughts, you might like to look at what awaits you on the other side.

Sepia Saturday 401 : 13 January 2018

SEPIA SATURDAY 401 : 13 January 2018

Balls Bridge, Dublin by Robert French : c. 1901-5

BRIDGES : BUSY SCENES : TRAMS : TRANSPORT : STREETS

Our prompt this week comes from our January Archive of Choice - the National Library of Ireland. It shows us a busy scene from Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century, complete with almost every form of transport you can imagine. All you need do is to decide how you want to travel and then post your post on or around Saturday 13th January 2018 and add a link to the list below.

Whilst you are waiting for the tram, or the horse and cart, or the cab, or your bike; why not take a look at what other themes are just around the corner.

Sepia Saturday Prompt Images : February 2018

Our four Sepia Saturday themes for February 2018 are taken from the Flickr Commons stream of The State Library Of Queensland. As always, you are free to interpret the themes as you wish, but you may  find the following suggestions useful:

SEPIA SATURDAY 404 : Saturday 3 February 2018

Students of Margaret St. Ledger performing The Dance of the Hours, ca. 1916

DANCE : PERFORMANCE : COSTUMES : STAGE

SEPIA SATURDAY 405 : Saturday 10 February 2018

John Henry Nicholson and his wife, Anna Cordes ca. 1890

COUPLES : TEA : HUSBAND & WIFE : BEARDS

SEPIA SATURDAY 406 : Saturday 17 February 2018

Manly Swimming Pool Brisbane 1936

SWIMMING : WATER : STANDING AROUND : HANGING AROUND

SEPIA SATURDAY 407 : Saturday 24 February 2018

Ida Zornig ca. 1911

DOGS : BICYCLES : CIRCLES PATTERNS

Sepia Saturday 400 : 6 January 2018

SEPIA SATURDAY 400 : 6 January 2018

1914 Family Group Of Women and Children

FAMILY GROUPS : LINES OF CHILDREN : HATS : HEIGHTS

It is time to get your ducks in a row, time to get the family out onto the parade ground, time to get ahead by getting a hat, and a time to reach new heights; as Sepia Saturday enters its eightieth year (or something like that). Our theme image this week - like all the theme images for January - comes from the Flickr Commons collection of the National Library of Ireland and features a 1914 photograph of the Mote Family. Interpret the prompt as you wish, just add an image and a description and post it on or around Saturday 6th January and add a link to the list below.

Here are the next couple of prompt images (the full set of January prompts can be found HERE), and the prompts for February will be published shortly