Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures

Starting next Monday, I will be posting updates several times a week instead of one large posting, once a week.

Updates, with three new sets of orphan photos, will be posted on Monday, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.

Please share your thoughts about the blog in the comments.

Cheers!

- Matt

"I recently developed a whole bunch of old rolls of film I had lying around. These were probably all at least 10 years old, and maybe as much as 15 years old.

It turned out that two of the rolls contained images of people I do not recognize."

Labels: Kansas

Found at the San Diego Zoo.

Labels: California, San Diego

"I found this camera on July 23, 2009, in a dry riverbed at Grand Teton National Park. The last picture was taken July 14. There weren't too many pictures on the card but I know the couple who lost it must want the pictures from their trip. Tell me the make and color of the camera and I'd be more than happy to return it to the rightful owner."

Labels: Wyoming

"One year ago walking through Zaragoza (Spain) I found a photo memory card laying in the street. It has many photos and looks like a family (parents and 2 children) travelling through Spain and USA. (I can Recognize: Zaragoza, Las Vegas and San Francisco)."

Labels: Spain

"These were found in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, outside the Empress on Canada Day (July 1) night, 2009. I'm using the camera, but if someone can give a good description of the camera or matches one of the pictures, I'd be glad to return it. :)"

Labels: British Columbia, Victoria

Below is an excerpt of an interview I did with the Toronto Star in May 2009:

Preprost acts as liaison between loser and finder, no fees involved. The reward is solving the mystery, Whose Camera Is It Anyway? Blog readers often comment on photos, recognizing landmarks, pointing out clues.

So far, Preprost and his online do-gooders have connected 18 mislaid cameras with their relieved owners. These days, a forgotten digital camera means not 24 or 36 lost pictures but potentially hundreds stored on the memory card.

"The first three months of my daughter's life was on that camera," says Raechel McFarland of Fresno, California, who had left it in a rental car during a Florida vacation.

Labels: Media

"I was hiking in Winterpark, Colorado, and found a blue Sanyo video camera. Pictures and videos are from 2007, a Cancun Mexico trip, construction, parties, and Winterpark Christmas trip. Looks like the boys are from Texas State. Hope someone recognizes it!"

Labels: Colorado

"Found the MEMORY CARD at: Health Sciences Library floor at the University of Washington in Seattle. When: May 2007"

Labels: Seattle, Washington

"I found this camera at Devils Lake in central Oregon, tried posting the ads on Craigslist with no luck. can you help?"

Labels: Oregon