Sepia Saturday

Each Saturday Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers with a photo or image that captures a bygone era. This week we’ve gotten a seaside photo. Here’s what I’ve found to share.

Strohmeyer & Wyman, P. (ca. 1898) Vacation Sports at the Seaside
. Coney Island New York, ca. 1898. New York, N.Y.: Strohmeyer & Wyman, publishers ; January 28. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2013650113/.

Bain News Service, P. (ca. 1920) At seaside, Japan
. , ca. 1920. [Between and Ca. 1925] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014713232/.

(1882) New York – a scene at Long Beach, the new and popular seaside resort / from a sketch by a staff artist
. Long Beach New York, 1882. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99403293/.

(1901) A seaside paradise – Cannes, France
. Cannes France, 1901. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019640691/.

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Sepia Saturday

Every week lovers of history, nostalgia and/or genealogy are invited to share photos based on a photo prompt. Above is our prompt for the week. These anchor men inspired me to look for photos of anchors or blacksmiths. Here’s what I found:

Library of Congress, Japanese Print, 1760

Library of Congress, L. Prang, 1874

Flickr Commons, Tyne & Ware Museum, 1993

NSW Archives, Hurlstone Agricultural High School, 1920

 

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Cee’s Black & White Challenge

Lights

Each week Cee challenges bloggers to share black and white photos based on a theme. This week we’re challenged to share photos of lights, any sort of lights.

What will you share?

Hanoi, Vietnam

Indian Boundary Field House, Chicago

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Mineral Sunscreens

It’s prime time for sunscreen so I’m sharing a new review by Renée aka Gothamista.

I’m well stocked as it is and have been using Dear, Klairs Everyday Sun Protector, which goes on smoothly and isn’t greasy. It’s SPF 50+ and PA++++. As you may know SPF 50 is considered overkill by many dermatologists. I got this as part of a set but would definitely repurchase.

I’m also using Anessa’s Essence UV sunscreen aqua booster. it absorbs well, but till it does feels slightly greasy. Again it’s SPF 50+ PA++++. Dear, Klairs is a South Korean company and Anessa is Japanese. I think these countries are tops for sunscreen. In the US products are only PA+++ so more there’s more protection against the sunrays that cause wrinkles.

Cee’s Black & White Challenge

The Back of Something

Each week Cee challenges bloggers to share black and white photos based on a theme. This week we’re challenged to share photos of a rearview of your subject.

in Kyoto

What will you share?

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Christianity in Japan

This young woman put together a documentary on Japan’s relationship to Christianity, how its perceived, what Japanese people do believe and how Christians are received in the Land of the Rising Sun.

When I lived there, Christianity was perceived as a foreign religion and as the video states only 1% of the population believes in it. Still because its a densely populated country, I did find churches near me.

I attended Buddhist and Shinto festivals, but as the documentary shows people tended to do them because they were traditions not because they actually believed them or knew their origins. At temples people would post their prayer petitions and people do donate to support their temples, in fact there’s great social pressure to tithe.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge

Knots

Each week Cee challenges bloggers to share black and white photos based on a theme. This week we’re challenged to share photos of knots.

What will you share?

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Go Figure

A friend has informed me that while the children aren’t going to school due to the Coronavirus, teachers must go to work everyday. They must stay the full day though there are no students.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: White

Each week Cee of Cee’s Photography challenges bloggers with a fun prompt. This week we’re to share photos highlighting white. What photos will you share?

London

Indonesia

Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém, Lisbon.

 

 

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Red

At the grocery store in Pekanbaru

Each week Cee of Cee’s Photography challenges bloggers with a fun prompt. This week we’re to share photos highlighting red. What photos will you share?

London mail box

Chicago, Federal Plaza

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