MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL!

A Wonderfully Strange VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS

Wishing my fellow Sepian's a wonderful holiday season, and that includes those who visit but don't participate.

And now the final intact Victorian Christmas.

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Tattered and Lost volumes 1 to 8 available at Amazon.

SNIFFLES for Christmas

Unfortunately I've been hit with a nasty cold right when I needed my energy most. No tree. No cookies. Most presents not bought and shipped. And I'll be frank, I worry this is the last Christmas with my father. Can't complain. Mine is just an inconvenience. But dang!

So no real participation in Sepia Saturday this weekend, but I wanted to make sure I posted part three of the Victorian Christmas image.

I give you a young Paul Simon and Paul McCartney. No idea what's going on. Who'd have thought these Time Traveling Celebrities would be caught as children?

The LIFE of a SNOWMAN

I originally posted this snowman saga in 2009, but it fits in nicely with the Sepia Saturday theme this week.

I can't even begin to tell you how lucky I was to find this sequence. The three vintage snapshots were in two different boxes at my favorite antique store. I would have been happy to find just one. To actually have the perseverance to find all three took some lower back pain as I stood there sorting for a couple hours. I'm nothing if not dedicated. I featured these images in my first book, Tattered and Lost: Vernacular Photography.

And here is part two of the Christmas mystery photo that I almost forgot to post.

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Tattered and Lost volumes 1 to 8 available at Amazon.

An American Dream is the latest book in my series of vernacular photography books. The American dream of owning a home through vintage vernacular photographs. The focus is on the people who lived within the homes as well as the varied architecture from the late 1800s to the 1960s.

Remember PEARL HARBOR

Today is December 7th. That date still means something to a lot of people, but over time it will be forgotten. There are few survivors left. I knew one, but he passed away many years ago.



I still remember a story one of my teachers told of staying home by herself when her family went to church. Alone in the house on a hillside when a bomb suddenly hit in the open field next door. It had been twenty years since the bombs were dropped, but she remembered every detail as if it had just happened.

Say this date to most young people today and it will probably mean nothing. That's the way with youth. For now it's just a date they might have read about in a history class, but it's forgettable. Their December 7th is 9/11 and in time it too will be forgotten.

There is a nice little vernacular photography book out celebrating the service personal who passed through Hawaii during the war years. It has some fun images and does justice to
the category they've chosen. I received a copy as a gift. It's entitled Shore Leave by Ryan Mungia and Jim Heimann.

I'm especially fond of this image because my second memory in life is walking along this sidewalk in Waikiki in the early 50s. My first memory is in our quarters on Midway Island.

And maybe while your'e taking a look at Shore Leave you might peruse one of my Tattered and Lost volumes. 

Tattered and Lost volumes 1 to 8 available at Amazon.

An American Dream is the latest book in my series of vernacular photography books. The American dream of owning a home through vintage vernacular photographs. The focus is on the people who lived within the homes as well as the varied architecture from the late 1800s to the 1960s
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They've ADDED ONE!

Remember those cards where each year there seemed to be a new kid in the family Christmas shot? And then you got the joy of watching them grow up even though you never actually met them?

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Tattered and Lost volumes 1 to 8 available at Amazon.

An American Dream is the latest book in my series of vernacular photography books. The American dream of owning a home through vintage vernacular photographs. The focus is on the people who lived within the homes as well as the varied architecture from the late 1800s to the 1960s.

Time for HOLIDAY PHOTO CARDS!

It's that time of year when the holiday photo cards start arriving from people you might not even remember. Eventually, if you're not really fond of them, the photos end up in the trash or stuck in the bottom of a drawer because you just can't bear tossing such nice people.

The people in this photo are unknown to me. In fact I got this second hand as a very nice gift for my birthday. I'm very easy to buy for.

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Over the next few weeks I'll be participating in Sepia Saturday by deconstructing a very interesting and unusual Victorian Christmas photo. Each weekend I'll post a portion of this photo rolling it out in pieces like a taunting relative who gives you tiny hints about what they've bought you for Christmas. Shake the box all you want, but you'll not find out what it is until Christmas Eve.

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Tattered and Lost volumes 1 to 8 available at Amazon.

An American Dream is the latest book in my series of vernacular photography books. The American dream of owning a home through vintage vernacular photographs. The focus is on the people who lived within the homes as well as the varied architecture from the late 1800s to the 1960s.