This week the Sepia Saturday suggestion seems to be about Picnics.
Well, there are a few snapshots in LOST GALLERY that are about picnics. Here are some of them.
Here is a very old tintype that had almost faded into the darkness of obscurity. I had a suspicion about what the subject was so I cleared away the fog a bit with Photoshop.
And what did it turn out to be?
A picnic.
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THE KIDS It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.
Dee and the Business School The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? "What are they doing?"
A really delicious spread!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great collection of old picnic shots. I cracked up reading your captions
ReplyDeleteThanks Little Nell. Thank goodness, some of them remembered to bring food.
ReplyDeleteThanks diane b. Much of the fun in collecting abandoned photographs is in the captions they suggest.
Just love that poor little picnic table & the Keep off the Grass sign!
ReplyDeleteLove the selections you brought us today, love the captions too, very funny..
ReplyDeleteThanks Colleen G. Brown Pasquale. Yes the picnic table photograph is one of my favorites too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rosie. Sometimes I just can't resist.
What a wonderful collection of picnic pictures & your comments are such fun! I love "The Lonely Picnic Table". In the approx. 16th photo down on the left the one woman looks like she took a bite of something really awful. Hope she had something nice to wash it down with!
ReplyDeleteWonderful captions and photos. Such fun to read through.
ReplyDeleteThanks Gail Perlee: The Lonely Picnic Table is certainly popular.
ReplyDeleteThat woman with the sour look on her face is part of a set of 51 photographs of her. I am assembling a page of just those currently. She has quite a story.
Thanks Helen Bauch McHargue. I am glad you had fun. Most of the captions come from a book I assembled about five years ago.
I especially like the tailgate party in the forties. They seem to be using the running board more than the tailgate, however.
ReplyDeleteIn the coloured picnic, I think he forgot to pack the dill pickle. Either that or she gave the wrong directions, and they couldn't start eating until 3pm.
ReplyDeletePicnic be damned, those guys are waiting for beer!
ReplyDeleteYou've certainly got this theme covered! The camera could have been invented as an accessory for picnics. My favorite is the one with the gents seated at an empty table, waiting (and complaining) for their waitress!
ReplyDeleteI only recently started taking picnics serious (cough cough) as a category. You're WAY ahead of me. I especially like the 4 guys with the table cloth and no food.
ReplyDeleteI can remember a picnic from childhood in Hawaii where we drove around the island to a very nice beach. My dad went through an entire book of matches trying to get the charcoal lit. The final match did it and then dad said to my mom, "Okay, give me the hot dogs." Ummmm...they were back at the house on the kitchen counter. So you've brought back some good memories.
By now I expect nothing else from you other than a great selection of old images - dead on theme. And as ever, you do not disappoint.
ReplyDeleteThanks Postcardy. Yes, it looks like they brought a card table and table cloth. Who knows why they set it up at the side of the car?
ReplyDeleteThanks Brett Payne. Yes, there certainly seems something rotten in Denmark there with the couple. And yes, the four guys are getting impatient; you can see it in their eyes.
Thanks Mike Brubaker. I am finding that is certainly true. There are two places that seem always to have a camera present: picnics and the beach. And yes, those four guys look as if they have waited just about long enough.
Thanks Tattered and Lost. What a lovely story and memory! Thanks very much for adding it here. That’s another good reason for rescuing abandoned photographs. I’m glad you enjoyed these.
Thanks Alan Burnett. It’s a category I had visited once before, some years ago, so I had a ready assortment.
Another great collection of photos.
ReplyDeleteYes the lonely picnic table is very ironic.
Thanks Sharon. It's almost like a small town speed trap.
ReplyDeleteI most of all like the various "guys" picnics, and the missing food!!!
ReplyDeleteQuite hilarious!!
They somehow remind me of a few acquaintances of mine...
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Thanks Ticklebear. I know a few too.
DeleteNo, the guys are waiting for the ladies to bring the food!
ReplyDeleteThanks Bob Scotney. That's probably it!
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