Sepia Saturday 781 : 28 June 2025

 

Sometimes all you need is a name. You can be sorting through a pile of old family photographs, desperately trying to work out if the subject is your Great Uncle Joe or Cousin Mabel's young nephew, when you suddenly find a name pencilled on the reverse of the photograph and all your questions are answered. Of course, it is Harold Elk! And then you suddenly realise that you haven't the slightest idea who on earth Harold Elk is, and you have never come across that name before. And then you are back at square one: sat on one end of a plaster bench, lost and alone. Share your old photographs - whether you know who they are or you don't - here on Sepia Saturday. Just post your post on or around Saturday 28th June 2025 and add a link to the list below.

The prompt photographs for July all come from the collection of the US National Archives on Flickr Commons. Here is a preview of the month ahead.

Sepia Saturday 780 : 21 June 2025

 

Sorry, late again. Car broke down on a mountain road. Memo to self - buy a new car!

Sepia Saturday 779 : 14th June 2025

 

"Man With A Chair" is a familiar caption for all collectors of old photographs. If old photographs are anything to go by, the average man - and indeed woman - of the first part of the twentieth century did little else but stand next to a chair and have their photograph taken. There are reasons, of course, for the use of chairs as props in early photographs: shutter speeds were slow and subjects had to keep still for a long time. So this week get out your men standing, your women standing and even your chairs standing. Whatever is standing, post you post on or around Saturday 14th June 2025 and add a link to the list below. And whilst you are standing about, take a look at what is next on Sepia Saturday.

Sepia Saturday 778 : Saturday 7th June 2025

 

For those who like themes, there are plenty of themes in this week's Sepia Saturday image. There are swans, rivers, boats and food. Whatever olkf photograph you are wanting to share this week will probably fit into one of those categories. So share your old images on or around Saturday 7th June 2025 and add a link to the list below. And we have themes a-plenty this week because we not only have the future themes for the rest of June, there is the July collection as well.

Sepia Saturday 777 : Saturday 31 May 2025

 

Railways, photography, the motor car, film and radio: some of the key inventions of the last two hundred years that have done so much to shape the world we live in now. This week, on Sepia Saturday, we celebrate two of these - photography and radio. Our theme image shows a photograph from eighty years ago of a man using a radio transmitter. All you need to do is to imagine that he is inviting you to share your hold photographs on Sepia Saturday by posting a post on or around Saturday 31 May 2025 and add a link to the list below. After which you can look forward rather than looking back - and see what is to come on Sepia Saturday over the next few weeks.

Sepia Saturday 776 : 24 May 2025

 

Families and photographs go together like ... well like family photographs! Whilst the very first photographs may have been of grainy castle walls or faded chateau gardens, it didn't take the humble camera long to focus in on its natural subject matter - the family. This Edwardian couple with their young child - I neither know who they are or why I happen to have their photograph in my collection - is just one of hundreds of millions of family photographs that have been taken over the last 175 years. This week on Sepia Saturday is your opportunity to share your favourite family photographs by posting a post and then adding a link to the list below. And whilst you are waiting for the family to gather, you might want to take a look at what is next on Sepia Saturday.

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.