It's time to gather around the Christmas tree and celebrate here on Sepia Saturday. The last of our "Life Indoors" prompts features three people posing in front of a Christmas tree. For this festive share your old photos with other Sepia Saturday followers by posting a post and linking it to the list below at any time between now and twelfth night.
We will be back in 2024 and our foist monthly set of themes will celebrate "the Sound Of Music".
We are living indoors in a very posh house this week on Sepia Saturday, but don't believe everything you see - especially when you are at the cinema. Our prompt this week is a still from the 1913 film "Flaming Heart". As always, you can do with it what you want - just do it on or around Saturday 16th December 2023 and add a link to the list below.
And remember, there is just one posting day before Christmas - here is the last prompt of 2023. See you all in 2024
It's the last of our November Sepia Saturday prompts - the last time we will be walking about. Our interpretation of the monthly theme this week features a group of unemployed workers walking from Jarrow in the North-East of England to London in 1936. You can reflect the theme in any way you want, just post your post on or around Saturday 25th November 2023 and add a link to the list below. And once I have stopped walking about, I will let you have the weekly themes for December. Our general theme for that month is "Indoors".
For our second week of walking about on Sepia Saturday, our theme image looks at people walking on the street - more specifically on Westmorland Street, Dublin in 1902. Many of you will have similar "walking snaps" in your collection and this week you have an opportunity to get them out and share them with other enthusiasts. Or, there again, you can simply share any old photograph you would like to share. Whatever you choose, post your posts on or around Saturday 11th November 2023 and add a link to the list below. And pause for a moment to look in a shop window - or look at what Sepia Saturday has to offer for the rest of the month.
Our last prompt in Portrait Month sees a classic studio shot of a sultry model smoking a cigarette. The photograph dates from the 1960s when I was doing a photography course at the local college. I seem to recall that it was an exercise in both studio lighting and depth of field. Your contributions to the final portrait prompt don't need to be dramatically lit, nor pin-sharp in places: indeed, this being Sepia Saturday, they don't even need to be portraits. Just an old photo and a few new words. Post your posts on or around Saturday 28th October 2023 and add a link to the list below.
After Portrait Month we go out and about - walking on the street. Here are our prompt images for November, so you have chance to think about your submissions in advance.
It's portrait month here on Sepia Saturday and we kick off with a portrait that is probably the best part of 150 years old. You don't have to match it with an equally old portrait, of course, indeed you don't even need a portrait. All you need is an old photo (and the definition of "old" is up to you) along with a few new thoughts. Then post your post on or around Saturday 7th October 2023 and add a link to the list below.
And whilst you are sitting around waiting for the artist to finish, take a look at what else is in store during portrait month.
The last of our "On The Streets" prompts and were better to finish than on the dark, rain-swept streets of Halifax 55 years ago. Of course you can go to any dark rain-swept streets you like, or any bright sunny streets, or any streets, or no streets. Simply post an old photo and add a few new comments on or around Saturday 30 September 2023 and add a link to the list below.
And then get yourself off the street and start looking for some October portraits. Here is a preview of the prompts:-
We are still on the street here at Sepia Saturday and this week we have a rather fine petrol station (gas station) to prompt your photographic memories. You don't have to follow the specific theme elements you may find in this photographs, you don't even have to follow the monthly theme (On The Street), you can go where you want on Sepia Saturday. Just post a post on or around Saturday 23rd September 2023 and add a link to the list below. Next week will be the final of our On The Street themes and I am delighted to reveal the general themes for the final quarter of the year. The specific theme images for October will be posted shortly.
We're still on the street, but now we have hanging washing and kids reading newspapers. Both probably tell of times long gone and they provide us with an opportunity to share photographs from times long gone. Just post your post on or around Saturday 16th September 2023 and add a link to the list below. And once you have done that, take a look at the remaining September theme images. And once you've done that - bring the washing in.
