Phnom Penh
Each week Cee challenges bloggers to share black and white photos based on a theme. This week we’re challenged to share photos of things that are decayed or old.
Pekanbaru, Indonesia
What will you share?
London
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Textiles with texture
Each week Cee of Cee’s Photography challenges bloggers with a fun prompt. This week we’re to share photos highlighting textures. What photos will you share?
British Museum
Suzhou
I know we’re not supposed to touch food, but there’s plenty of texture here
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The Which Way Challenge, that Cee began, has been picked up by the Sonofthebeach69 blogger. The beauty of it is that it’s free form. You can include images of doors, gates, roads, streets exits, signs, paths, waterways, you name it.
Garfield Park Conservatory
Gion, Kyoto, Japan
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This week’s prompt challenges us with a photo of a train wreck in Ireland and the workers starting to get things back on track. (Excuse the pun.)
I searched for an array of train photos to fit this theme. Here’s what I discovered.
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SMU Digital Library, Barclay Road, 1895
UK National Archives, Northern Line Tain, 1946
National Archives, Off the Rails, 1868
Irish Railroad Society, 1959
Internet Archives, Shanon , PA, 1908
This week’s Sepia Saturday inspires bloggers to search through archives and find photos on travel, overcrowding, blankets or I’d say carriages. Though kids are back at school, September’s a good month for traveling. My aunt and uncle are soon off to Russia and other friends are off to Wyoming. I’ll leave for China on Thursday so travel came to mind.
Source: Tyne & Wear Museums (n.d.)
How romantic the life of circus performers on the road must have been back then.
Source: National Library of Ireland, circa 1890
Above is a ferry, so the journey’s not long. It carries dock workers.
Source: LOC, circa 1912
The last photo was taken at a train station, I’m not sure where, but somewhere in the US.
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Tunnels are perfect devices for storytelling, seemingly neutral spaces that can lead someone from one world to another. They can also look rather cool and evoke mystery and adventure. The ones I’ve found for Sepia Saturday, though older, have a sci fi vibe to them. I can envision them in Doctor Who or a retro sci fi movie along the lines of Things to Come. To see more Sepia Saturday posts, click here.
Source: Tyne & Wear, Flickr Commons
Swiss Guard Tunnel, 1910
Source: Flickr Commons, Library of Congress
Source: Tyne & Wear Archives
Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition 