Each week Cee challenges us to share photos based on an inspiring prompt. This week we’re challenged to share photos of commercial buildings so I went looking for shops, banks, offices and the like.
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Each week Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers with a visual prompt. This week’s double decker bus prompt, inspired me to look for double decker buses.
The tram above looks like it would easily tip over.
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This week Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers to share images from way back when inspired by the photo above. So this week I’ve found some photos of tennis players.
State Library of New South Wales, 1899
Hales Family Tennis Party
Library of Congress, circa 1920
Actress Priscilla Dean ready for tennis.
Library of Congress, circa 1925
Kumagae and Johnson (Flickr Commons had no information on Mr. Johnson, hence no link.)
How would you like to play tennis in the outfits worn in the first two
A portrait of a lady. That’s how I see this week’s prompt. So I searched through the archives and my own photos of portraits of ladies.
From Flickr Commons:
US National Archives, 1863
SMU Archives, 1970
US National Archives, 1863
Library of Congress – Lady Conan Doyle, 1920
From my archives:
London, actually
Each week Cee of Cee’s Photography challenges bloggers with a fun prompt. This week we’re to share photos of rectangles. What photos will you share?
British Museum
Tianjin, China
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Each week Cee of Cee’s Photography challenges bloggers with a fun prompt. This week we’re to share photos of rectangles. What photos will you share?
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Each week Cee of Cee’s Photography challenges bloggers with a fun prompt. This week we’re to share photos of rectangles. What photos will you share?
Ignore the cakes on the left, the rest are rectangular
London
Writers’ Museum
Edward Hopper, Art Institute of Chicago
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A friend shared a photo challenge that seemed inviting: Photo for the Week.
I thought I’d join as I love both China and china. Here are the details from the hosts:
“So for your submission this week, it can be either crockery or anything oriental. Maybe a photograph of a trip to China. As long as it reflects China in one form or another, the task this week is very varied.”
Workshop, Hanoi, Vietnam
This week’s prompt sent me searching for people, particularly young people, playing stringed instruments. Here’s what I found.
State Library of Queensland, 1905
The exposure of this photo of a boy playing the violin gives it an ethereal feeling.
State Library of NSW, circa 1910
Henry Morton Nazareto Orchestra
National Archives U.K. 1948
In the Cayman Islands
LOC, 1930
Harpist at the Turkish Embassy
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Reading is one of my favorite pastimes and it’s this week’s inspiration for Sepia Saturday. Look what I found on the theme.
Source: Nationaal Archief, Flickr Commons, 1951
I didn’t know ostriches liked to read.
Mennonite Archives, Flickr Commons, n.d.
Florida Memories, Flickr Commons, 1940
Woman in Sarasota reading (with schadenfreude) of the harsh winter weather up north.
I started wondering about what artists have done to portray reading. Here’s what I found.
“The Reader,” B. Morisot, 1888
Reading, Picasso, 1932
Nurse Reading to a little Girl, M. Cassat, 1895
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