I love Sepia Saturday because it keeps me posting at least once a week when life gets hectic. This week’s prompt features Boadecea (Celtic queen of the Iceni tribe which rebelled against Roman rule in Britain, AD 60 or 61). At least, it features an actress dressed as Boadecea, since photography was invented a couple …
Looking a bit yellowed, here is a nice portrait of three children, labeled “The Farrell Infants” by someone, in pencil. I read it as tongue-in-cheek, as though the recipient of the photo thought of these kids as quite young, only to find they had grown in the blink of an eye. It could also be …
This post 1900 photograph features six men and six women. I gather this is either a large group of friends, brothers/sisters and spouses, or some other family grouping, such as cousins. It looks as thought the lady front-left is sitting on the man behind her, which seems really odd placement. Maybe this is a wedding …
Alan really has me thinking about faces these days and what the person was thinking at the moment the photo was being taken. Have you ever taken a face out of context and then tried to imagine what was going on? The prompt image this week is a tight shot of a face alone, and …
Here we have a variety of photographs of people in doorways, as inspired by the Sepia Saturday prompt, which shows two men standing in the doorway of a shop. As I looked through these photos, I realized the commonality is not only people posed in front of doors, porches and doorways, but the pride of …
Who Were They? 