Old-style photos

Usage examples of sepias.

He’d laid down a field of mushy scarlets and ochers, like the guts of an over-ripe pomegranate, and then stroked the details of Wyckoff Street over this seething backcloth, the grays and sepias of brick and iron and asphalt never completely concealing the rotted hues beneath, so that for all the carefully rendered detail, Wyckoff Street looked like a veil drawn over a more insistent and powerful reality.

At first sight a uniform pewter, the hills had a startling variation of color‑mauves and sepias, the cobalt of shadow, and the occasional rich emerald of lichens clinging to the cold‑cracked rocks.

The gardens themselves lay like a peas­ant's patchwork of umbers and sepias within the spiky enclosures of knee‑high box hedges, offering an almost uninterrupted field of vision from the silvery glass of the windows.

The house, formerly a nameless bulk of shadow, ripened into warm russets and weathered sepias, its windows blazing with the sun's reflected glory like the dazzle of molten electrum.

The walls were cherrywood, and featured framed sepias of the family and their ancestors.

Beneath the canopy there were burnt umbers and siennas and sepias in the trunks and branches, skillfully highlighted to lend the impression that light was falling through the foliage and catching the bark.