We are still out on the street here on Sepia Saturday and this week we are in Copenhagen. We are looking down on another busy street and there are lots of bicycles in view. There are also hats, caps and endless other things you can choose for a theme, or you can make your own theme up. Just feature an old photograph, post it and link it. It's as easy as crossing the road.
We've been doing the element during October here on Sepia Saturday water, air, fire and all that - so to end with let's celebrate the fact that it is Halloween by featuring ghosts. In fact, ghosts were a common subject for many early photographs - those hazy, out-of-focus double exposures that were frequently to be found in early photographs gave rise to all sorts of paranormal speculations. So wheel out your family ghosts - be it Great Uncle George floating above a graveyard or Cousin Hilda carrying her head underneath her arm as she walks down the upstairs landing. Let those spirits free on or around Saturday 31st October 2026 and add a link to the list below. Once you've done that you can say goodbye to October and take to the streets here on Sepia Saturday in November.
For reasons I have now forgotten, I decided that the theme for Sepia Saturday in October should be the elements. I have weekly posts featuring earth, water, fire, and air, but you can incorporate any element you like into your featured old photographs - or no element at all. For the final Saturday of the month, which happens to be Halloween, I have invented a new element: ghosts. For this first Friday, I am featuring “earth” and an image from the Flickr Commons collection of the National Library of Ireland. Whatever on earth you decide to dig up for this week’s Sepia Saturday, please do so on or around Saturday, 3 October 2026, and add a link to the list below.
A barge moored on a river in the shadow of a medieval church - a scene from long ago. The image reminds us of times gone by, and as a Sepia Saturday prompt, it suggests subjects such as rivers, churches, and boats. Alternatively, it can be any image that evokes the past. Simply post your old photograph and add a link to the list below on or around Saturday, 19 September 2026. Then sit back in your deck chair and think about what lies ahead here on Sepia Saturday.
Old photographs are a treasure map, but nobody tells you what the treasure actually is. You've got to search for it - and when you find it you will know. The treasure in this week's Sepia Saturday Call image might be the wooden ark or the remarkably unrealistic wooden animals. It might be the headscarf or it might be the look on the face of that man on the left hand side of the photograph. Further more, what is treasure to one person might not be worth a passing glance to someone else. There are no right or wrong answers when it comes to old photographs. Here, on Sepia Saturday, we ask you to share your own treasure maps on or around Saturday the 8th August 2026 and leave a link on the list below. And pause for a while to see what other treasure maps will be appearing in the next few weeks.
Put your costumes on, it's time to dress up, here on Sepia Saturday. Our theme image this week features some amateur dramatics - an old relative of an in-law, I think. As always you can make of it what you will. Sepia Saturday is a celebration of old photographs, so simply share yours on or around Saturday 25th July 2026 and leave a link on the list below. And, without being too dramatic, take a look at the exciting things that are around the corner on Sepia Saturday.
All lovers and collectors of old photographs have a category labelled "unknown". It is the box you place what's left after you've put Uncle Joe and Auntie Ethel into their own respective boxes (be they actual boxes or digital folders). In some ways it's a rather sad category: those who live within its confines have lost their names and their personal histories. It contains, however, photographs that are imaginative springboards: who is this woman, what kind of life did she lead, what became of her? this week on Sepia Saturday I am celebrating the forgotten stars of our photographic collections. You can join me in celebrating your "unknown" stars, or you can share any old photograph you like. Simply post your post on or around Saturday 18th July 2026 and add a link to the list below.
And this is what is to come on Sepia Saturday over the next couple of weeks:-
My car broke down on the way to put up this week's Sepia Saturday call - so my apologies for its late arrival and my thanks, as always, to Barbara Rogers for helping me to change the tyre. As you can see, this week on Sepia Saturday we have jumped aboard our fine modern motor car and we are about to head off somewhere or other. Here on Sepia Saturday you can follow us in your old car or go off in any direction you want to. Simply post an old photograph on or around Saturday 11 July 2026 and add a link to the list below. And then you can take a look at what is coming next on Sepia Saturday.
