Summary of news
- Spencer Grainer found a lost camera while fishing in 2010.
- He cleaned the object and was able to transfer photos from the machine to the computer.
- Fisher got scared when he uploaded 179 photos. He posted on Facebook to find the owner.
- An hour after the post, people started responding and he identified the owner of the photos.
Spencer Grainer found camera with photos taken almost 13 years ago Reproduction Spencer Greiner via The Washington Post
American Spencer Grainer, 34, was on a fishing trip cleaning up trash from a riverbank in Durango, Colorado when he saw a battered camera stuck in the mud. He walked over and removed the device, which was clearly in an unusable condition.
“A lot of trash has flowed into the water from the melting snow,” Grainer said. “I thought I’d clean it up a bit,” he said shortly after finding the camera.
Grainer hardly anticipated what was to come since the camera was in possession. Carol Amayi enjoying a subway ride in the US state in July 2010 when she hit some rapids and was thrown into the water. During the fall, the equipment fell into the water and disappeared.
When she came back, she found that the cable holding the digital camera was broken, and not only her photos but all of the photos on the memory card were gone.
“I had photos of my dog and her puppies, photos of my girlfriend’s first baby and photos from my camp there that I hadn’t downloaded yet,” said Carol, who lived in the area where the camera disappeared at the time. “I thought I would never see her again,” he admitted.
She also had pictures from her bridal shower and a friend’s wedding.
Earlier this month, however, the owner of the camera got a surprise: Some friends tagged her on Facebook because on March 14, 2023, almost 13 years after the episode, the almost forgotten object was found.
“They said, ‘Look, someone found your camera and put your pictures on the Durango group’s site [Facebook]!’” said Carol, who now resides in Cochise, Arizona. “I immediately did a happy dance. After all these years? I couldn’t believe it,” he said.
Greiner posted that he found the camera on Facebook Reproduction Facebook/Spencer Grainer
“Did you get married in the Durango area on June 12, 2010?” Greiner asked in the Post. “Did you have an ugly brown station wagon at your bachelorette party? Do you recognize any of these people? If yes, please contact me. I found a camera at Animas yesterday during a fishing trip that was lost in July 2010.”
The American reports that he pryed open the damaged camera with a screwdriver and removed the memory card, and then used a card reader to transfer the data to the computer.
“When I got home, curiosity got the better of me,” he said, who claimed to have thought about throwing the object in the trash. “The camera was so destroyed and looked so otherworldly that I thought not being able to see anything.”
Grainer was shocked when 179 photos from June and July 2010 surfaced. The photos showed a bridal shower, a wedding and a river cruise.
“I was so surprised that my computer could read the card,” he said. “Some of the photos were a little blurry, but there were some good ones. I knew someone had to care about them.”
Spencer Grainer found bridal shower and wedding photos from 2010 Reproduction Facebook/Spencer Grainer
The American who is a father to a son aged 1 year and 9 months said he thought about how he would feel if he lost some of his important photos, so he decided to post them on Facebook. “I knew if the camera footage was mine, I would want it back,” he said.
Within an hour of posting the pictures, people started reaching out. “The groom in the photos said, ‘Hey, that’s me and my wife at our wedding,'” Greiner said. “He and someone else recognized Carol as one of the bridesmaids and they picked her up and confirmed it was her camera.”
After contacting the camera’s owner, the American sent her all the old photos and said he was shocked that the mystery was solved so quickly.
For Carol, now 35, “it was like finding treasure.” She even noted that she got emotional when she saw some photos of her dog Zona, who died last fall.
“What a joy to see her again as a younger bitch,” said the camera owner. “I was surprised that Spencer took the time to contact me about the photos,” she admitted.
Carol said she’s also found items that have been lost over the years and is trying to trace the owners. “I found a phone once and gave it back to a guy,” she said. “And I found someone returning a hula hoop.”
“I believe in karma,” the woman added. “I hope that everyone who hears this story will be inspired to search for the owner of something they found. A lost earring or baseball cap might seem insignificant, but you never know. There could be a special meaning behind it.”
Greiner said he plans to send Carol’s camera to her and hopes to meet her in person one day so they can take a picture together.
“I’m glad I was able to identify everyone so quickly and give her those memories back,” he said.
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From the “brick” to the highresolution camera: mobile phones have completed 50 years of continuous technological development
He turned fifty! This Monday, April 3, 2023, the mobile phone will complete five decades since it arrived in the hands of the first users very different from how we know it today. Detail: It weighed 40 kg and could only be transported by car, which prevented the technology from falling into the taste of the population of the time. Improvements were to come in the years that followed, until we got closer to what we know today. The mobile phone, now practically an extension of our body, was made on the 3rd — a call from the street in New York with a device that is slightly heavier than the current ones
That year, Motorola introduced the world to the Dynatac 8000X, a portable device that was 25 cm long, 7 cm wide and weighed about 1 kg. The battery? It only took 20 minutes
However, the “father of cellphones” warns that the population’s use of the device has spiraled out of control and urges: “stop looking at the screen”. Martin Cooper, now 94, admits he feels bad when he sees a user on the street: “When I see someone crossing the street and looking at their phone, I feel terrible. You don’t think.” Read the full report
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