Saturday, March 23, 2013

Sepia Saturday #169 - Snapshots of Our Lives

The more I delve into this crazy hobby of mine, collecting old photos, I have come to realize more and more that despite all of our differences we all have so many of the same basic interests; home, family, love, travel, fun, humor, grief and despair to name a few. Since  man has been able to transfer these emotions and memories to some sort of medium, he (or she) has done so in many possible ways.  I myself, have dabbled in a few; scrapbooking  quilting,  collage, and while I have no drawing or painting talent I have for many years been the family photographer and historian.  This week's Sepia Saturday theme centers around this very subject and so I chose a few snapshots from a large box of photos that I purchased some time ago. They appear to have been from the same family from Michigan and Oklahoma and the owner may have been Beulah Miller who appears at different ages in many of the photos. I decided to get a little creative this week and created a collage using some of her family photos. 

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Although a little hard to see, a couple of the men in these photos are holding camera bags; take a look at the man standing to the left of the airplane and the man on the rocks at the bottom middle. Photography has been an important part of the human experience since the mid 1800's and is now an important part of the day to day life of each of us with the simple use of a cell phone.

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11 comments:

  1. The collage is such a good idea. I like how the boy is standing on a rock just below the graduate also standing on a rock - obviously the same house. It's as if the family treated those rocks as a pedestal for the honoree.

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  2. Some of those photos look like they would be interesting to see in a larger size--especially the one that appears to be a soldier seated next to a man reading.

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  3. Yes, once you start looking, photographers are everywhere, snapping away and being caught on film too. I think I see a pair of binoculars in toine of those snapshots too.

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  4. This is just perfect, what a great idea. My vote of favorite goes to the kissing little gent! What an adorable kiss!

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  5. A wonderfully melodic hymn in praise of photography and the photographer. The collage is marvellous.

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  6. I'm sure you'll be sharing these photos with us again, individually, in the future, but for now I really like the collage you have created

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  7. I have a theory that family photographers chose a favorite location inside or outside the house for ALL their posed portraits. That is certainly the way in my family. There was always a choice spot to commemorate all the important events, and give a kind of measurement scale to see the children grow.

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  8. I want to see the photo with the dog on its own. And just a thought but I don't have a camera phone!

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  9. I love your collage. A what a great bunch of photos. I particularly like the kissing photo in the lower right corner. Perfect.
    Nancy

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  10. Your collage proves the point that photography has a 'life'beyond the moment.Something creative happens as we respond to an image.& we compare & contrast a series.A lovely post Teresa.

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  11. Two cameras, a pair of binocular, a stereo pickup and a dog
    and plenty of hats to go around.
    Nice collection!!
    :)~
    HUGZ

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