Irish Wedding News
01/12/2016
Alex Galmeanu recently purchased a Balda Baldix camera online from a seller near Birmingham. When he opened the camera, he discovered an undeveloped film inside and when he developed the images he found that they appeared to be of a couple's wedding day.
Taking to his blog, Galmeanu has said that he now wants to reunite the couple – or their relatives – with the images.
He wrote: "The story is like this: a couple of days ago I bought a cheap, but somehow rare, camera (BALDA BALDIX 75mm f2,9 BALTAR LENS, FOLDING CAMERA, made till the 60's), and, to my surprise, when I had open it, I had found an exposed but undeveloped old roll film inside.
"Of course I had it developed right away, and, as a surprise again, I was able to recover 10 quite usable images, especially when considering their age.
"About the images, is quite easy to notice that we are witnessing a discrete low profile wedding, happened somewhere in a small town, or a rural area. The cars we see in the pictures are telling us quite clear we are in England, and it's somehow confirmed by the landscape and human subjects too.
"Talking about the cars, one of them, that one already wedding decorated, is an Austin Maxi, made in England between 1969 and 1981, and this particular one, it seems it was made in the first part of the interval, judging by the mirrors position.
"Obviously, I searched online for the plate number, and I discovered that car was actually first registered in Edinburgh, somewhere between August 1973 and July 1974."
He continued: "Going all over this again, we have a camera made till the 60's, a colour negative roll film produced somewhere between 1963 and 1974, a film developing process popular between 1950 and 1973 only, and a 1973-1974 Edinburgh registered car, produced between1969 and 1981... so, we probably we aren't quite wrong saying we witness a Scottish wedding from 1973.
"We've also learned that the camera was shipped from Southam (UK), near Birmingham, were was placed years in a row on a shelf of a local collector who it seems that he never had the curiosity to open it.
"Of course, this is a great experience for a photographer like me considering the fact that I was able to process a roll film exposed 5 years before my birth."
"Obviously, a happy end will complete this beautiful story. Your help is needed to share this to all your British friends. Who knows, maybe someone will hopefully recognise his/ her family, and I'll have the opportunity to return these images to those entitled to receive them," he concluded.
The images can be viewed at Galmeanu's blog here.
(JP/LM)
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Appeal To Track Down Owners Of Wedding Album
A photographer has launched an appeal to reunite a couple with their wedding photographs – after he discovered the images on an undeveloped film inside a camera.Alex Galmeanu recently purchased a Balda Baldix camera online from a seller near Birmingham. When he opened the camera, he discovered an undeveloped film inside and when he developed the images he found that they appeared to be of a couple's wedding day.
Taking to his blog, Galmeanu has said that he now wants to reunite the couple – or their relatives – with the images.
He wrote: "The story is like this: a couple of days ago I bought a cheap, but somehow rare, camera (BALDA BALDIX 75mm f2,9 BALTAR LENS, FOLDING CAMERA, made till the 60's), and, to my surprise, when I had open it, I had found an exposed but undeveloped old roll film inside.
"Of course I had it developed right away, and, as a surprise again, I was able to recover 10 quite usable images, especially when considering their age.
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"About the images, is quite easy to notice that we are witnessing a discrete low profile wedding, happened somewhere in a small town, or a rural area. The cars we see in the pictures are telling us quite clear we are in England, and it's somehow confirmed by the landscape and human subjects too.
"Talking about the cars, one of them, that one already wedding decorated, is an Austin Maxi, made in England between 1969 and 1981, and this particular one, it seems it was made in the first part of the interval, judging by the mirrors position.
"Obviously, I searched online for the plate number, and I discovered that car was actually first registered in Edinburgh, somewhere between August 1973 and July 1974."
He continued: "Going all over this again, we have a camera made till the 60's, a colour negative roll film produced somewhere between 1963 and 1974, a film developing process popular between 1950 and 1973 only, and a 1973-1974 Edinburgh registered car, produced between1969 and 1981... so, we probably we aren't quite wrong saying we witness a Scottish wedding from 1973.
"We've also learned that the camera was shipped from Southam (UK), near Birmingham, were was placed years in a row on a shelf of a local collector who it seems that he never had the curiosity to open it.
"Of course, this is a great experience for a photographer like me considering the fact that I was able to process a roll film exposed 5 years before my birth."
"Obviously, a happy end will complete this beautiful story. Your help is needed to share this to all your British friends. Who knows, maybe someone will hopefully recognise his/ her family, and I'll have the opportunity to return these images to those entitled to receive them," he concluded.
The images can be viewed at Galmeanu's blog here.
(JP/LM)
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