Aug 29: OpLove~Images from recent homecoming.Click Here for more Images.

Keywords: OpLove, Homecoming, Family, Reunited, Air Guard

Aug 27: New Scam targeting Wedding Photogs: [here is the first email with lots of specifics, including the Catholic Church--which does exist--I called to try to verify the wedding date].

THE LINE----

Hi David

My name is Mr. David Carrol .I am planning to have my wedding
ceremony on Sept 9/18/2010 at Holy Trinity Parish Hall, Marshfield
Missouri, 515 East Washington Street, Marshfield MO 65706 .I am
looking for a good photographer who will come and do the snap shots on
the D-day.I came across your listing on the web and decided to contact
you.
I want to know your charges for the following required services if you
are to work for between 6 and 8 Hours on that day.
We will select the best 100 copies of different snaps photos in
both black and white and color and in Two main sizes and dimensions
which is required for my personal use at home.

1)16" x 12" (405 x 305mm) approx. including post and packaging
2)12" x 10" (305 x 204mm) approx. including post and packaging
3) I want just one Panoramic images size 18" x 6.5" (457mm x165mm) 30
10x8 prints in album.

colored Snapped in the church and at the reception.I want it for me
and my wife, Our parents, the officiating ministers and our guests.I
will be requiring your service for at least 6 Hours at both occasions
(church and at the reception). The church is Holy Trinity Catholic
Church - Marshfield Missouri 515 East Washington Street, Marshfield MO
65706 . If you are out of Missouri, I will pay the transportation
charges to and fro the party venue so I want you to indicate in your
email if you are out of Missouri and state what it will cost you to
get transport to Marshfield Missouri so that we both can work it out
and also the total amount you will receive for the whole services at
the occasion.

We will have the photographs snapped at the wedding forwarded to
the Publisher of a Magazine Company in U.S so they could feature it in
their celebrity journal so due to this, I want the pictures neat and
nice.However,I will be making the payment by means of a Check. Let me
have your full Names, Address, Phone Number, where the Check will be
mailed to for the payment.More so, should you be out of state,the
Hotel accommodation will be provided by me. Waiting to read from you
soon as regards this.
Thanks and have nice day.

Best Regards.
David Carrol
1-916-724-6109
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And here is the second email after I sent an estimate of expenses:

THE HOOK --------------

Hello David

How are u doing today? am really excited reading from you, as regard
my wedding event, actually am well satisfy with all , but i will like
to know the total cost. Am going to send you an up front payment,in
which you will deduct your full payment and the balance to the
Publisher of a Magazine Company for their initial deposit , by western
union transfer . i will urge you to get back to me with your full
name, address and phone number.

Note : A regards the wedding photography contract, i wish you could
have it done and reserve it , as soon as we meet i will fill and sign
every worksheet required by me and my wife okay? I look forward to
your response.

God Bless You
David
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My response, "B. S." If you get something like this, don't waste your time.

Keywords: Scam, Wedding, Marshfield MO, Western Union Transfer, David Carrol

Aug 21: Extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined for a full color image!
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

Russia, Three Color Images, 1909-1912, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer