I know, I keep getting later and later on these, but I’m still here! It’s been a difficult week, so I think my lateness is acceptable under the circumstances. We have a new theme for Sepia Saturday for the month of October, “From Here to There.” Our prompt image features a bunch of ladies on bicycles, and with my husband’s Dutch ancestry, we have LOTS of photos of people on bicycles, so here’s my first submission! On the left is Ellechien Dijkema and on the right, her sister and my husband’s grandmother, Hilje Dijkema. This was probably taken in Holland, somewhere around Uithuizen in the late 1920s or early 1930s. The girls were born only 2 years apart in 1912 and 1914 respectively, so there are a lot of photos of these two girls together. Here, they’re posed on their bicycles, balanced together while being supported by a fence, wearing matching dresses.
This is a bit of an odd photo and I have the hardest time visually making sense of it – it almost looks like part of the photo is a negative, but the girls’ clothes and faces are positive. It doesn’t look like the photo has degraded, but it’s possible there might be a bit of a double exposure going on, juding by the line towards the right side of the image. Regardless, it’s a sweet photo of the two of them out on their bikes and I’m glad someone paused them to take this!
It does appear to be a double exposure. It looks like there might be people in the muddled background? Good thing the picture of the girls is fairly ckear!
Very interesting. The girls almost look camouflaged in their surroundings, but their faces show up clearly, as you say. They both look happy to be out for a ride together.