As I continue to scan the (over 300) black and white negatives that came with the ebay Argus C3 camera I bought, I’m continually amazed at these pictures.  Not only are they of some of the most historical places in the world, but they are from over 65 years ago!  Here’s a couple you may (or may not recognize), click each photo to be taken to it’s photo page to find out what these locations are (obviously, the title of this post gives you a hint.) 

My family and I are planning a big trip to Europe this summer.  There’s eleven of us going and we’re all so excited!  I wish my grandfather was alive to go with us, because we’ll be visiting one of the concentration camps he helped liberate.  Recently I purchased a vintage camera on Ebay.  The camera is the Argus C3 and it’s in amazing condition, it also came with undeveloped color slide film (that expired in 1954), and also some developed black and white negatives.  The negatives were the surprise, they are filled with images the owner took during WWII!  I know some history and information on the owner (he passed away at age 63 and his wife recently passed away last year..and I believe the person I bought this from on Ebay got this camera from the estate sale)…I’m in the process of scanning all of the negatives, and when I’m finished I’m going to try and see what family members I can contact to see if they’d like the scanned images.

One thing I plan to do is to run a test roll through the Argus camera to make sure it’s in working order, and then take this camera with me to Europe…so that it can take pictures there once again.

I wanted to share a couple with you tonight from the over 200 images I’ve already scanned…I believe these were both taken in Slovenia (which is near north Italy).

We went this past weekend up to the Magic Kingdom and Epcot for the day…it was my grandma’s 71st birthday and we all had a great time.  I just wanted to share a few photos with you…all taken with the Canon Powershot SD1200is.

and a few with the iphone and the lo-mob app!

And the Hipstamatic iphone app:

I was the lucky recipient of a 16×20 gallery wrapped canvas to blog about from Zaza Gallery!  It arrived the other day and I brought it outside to take some photos of it and share the details with you.  It’s gorgeous, I love it, and since it’s of one of my beautiful nieces, it will be delivered to my sister in law and brother this weekend.

First off, when you order a gallery wrapped canvas….16×20 is the size to go with.  It’s not too big, and not too small.  It’s a fantastic size to show off your image.

A little about the photo…. my niece received the cutest little Tinkerbell costume for Christmas and put it on right away.  She was running around the house, mostly acting like a frog and ribbiting, but I loved this shot I caught of her trying to see her wings behind her.   When I have the camera on my nieces, I have to be QUICK.  The settings weren’t quite right, I didn’t have a flash, and the image turned out a little on the blurry and noisy side.  I adjusted in photoshop, giving it a black and white tone (although the photo below does not do it justice) and a little fairy ‘glow’ to it.  I figured, why not use this image for the canvas…to see how well a ‘not so good’ and ‘photoshop adjusted’ image would do on the canvas.  It came out great!  I’m super pleased!

They did a beautiful job of ‘wrapping’ the canvas as you can see below:

Zaza Gallery has some great prices on these, the 8×10 canvas start at $25!  So head on over to their website HERE and check it out!