Michael Moir doesn’t always see things in black and white — especially when it comes to nostalgic photographs of old Ottawa. By day, Moir works for the city’s traffic operations department, where he supervises the sign shop. On his own time, he’s the graphic artist behind Damn Fine Prints Canada, which specializes in vintage tourism-style art prints featuring iconic scenes from across the country. Originally from Edmonton, Moir says there’s just something about Bytown that captured his curiosity. “I just love history, and Ottawa history in particular,” he said. “I just really love all the architecture in the city, I…
Category: Vintage Photo
Apps to Make Your Photos Look Vintage
Technology has blessed us with the latest and newly built cameras but nothing compares to the aesthetics of retro and vintage photos. We are always on the hunt to find a good app with realistic effects of vintage vibes. Although social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat deliver tons of filters with varied effects including ones that can make your pictures come across as retro, the need for an impressive app in this regard is highly in-demand. The appeal of black-and-white filters and grainy images is rapidly increasing, and probably this is why you clicked on this article. Stress no…
Fans erupt over vintage photo of TV newsreader Ann Sanders in the ’90s
By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:12 GMT, 1 May 2023 | Updated: 08:22 GMT, 1 May 2023 A previously unseen throwback photo of veteran Channel Seven newsreader Ann Sanders proves she has barely aged a day in decades. The 63-year-old’s colleague David ‘Kochie’ Koch posted a black and white photo on Instagram of the two journalists posing in a boardroom with TV doctor Dr John D’Arcy and former political editor Dennis Grant. ‘Blast from the 1990s. Going through some old photo albums and this popped up,’ Koch wrote in the caption. The photo showed Sanders sitting in…
These photos from Queen Camilla’s first wedding are a must-see
Decades-old photos of Queen Camilla’s first wedding are a must-see for royal fans. While we now know Queen Camilla for being married to His Majesty King Charles III, the Queen Consort was of course married once before saying ‘I do’ to her beloved Charles. The Queen Consort met British Army Officer Andrew Parker Bowles in the 1960s, when her name was Camilla Shand. The pair later married on July 4th 1973, with Camilla’s children, Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes coming along later. Old photographs from Camilla’s wedding day to Andrew show them after saying their vows at The Guards’…
Readers share their vintage photos
Thanks to all the readers who have sent photos in for use on this page. Lately, we’ve seen some striking finds. Rick Karl wrote in and sent along a photo of his father, Fred Karl, then 20 years old, atop a Sherman tank — a medium tank M4A3 (76)W HVSS assigned to D Company, 2nd Armored Division, nicknamed “the Daytona Beach, “Karl informs us. The photo was taken at the fall of Berlin, 1945. The elder Karl would return home and go on to represent Volusia County as a member of the Florida House and Senate before sitting on the…
Vintage photo of handsome war veteran going viral
NEWARK, Del. — A photo of a bright-eyed, dimpled soldier with a perfect pearly white smile is breaking hearts all over social media. The vintage picture, which was taken in 1950 before the soldier’s deployment in Korea, has gone wildly viral since it was posted on Reddit – with some of his many admirers calling him a babe and a hunk. More than 3 million people have viewed the handsome headshot so far. So – who is he? Do some digging and you’ll find that the man’s grandson, Derek Schwendeman, posted it. Derek lives near Newark, Delaware and gave WPVI-TV,…