Found someone's holiday photos

geekman said:
I recently found two Sandisk Ultra CF cards in a wood in the south of france, a couple of hundred meters from the nearest road. They looked as if they'd been sitting there for quite a while and I didn't reckon they'd work, but I decided to pick them up and see what I could do with them. It's only now that I've had the time to take a look, and surprisingly both cards are working and have around 500 photos on them from someone's holiday.

The photos are the usual holiday stuff (no hot naked girls unfortunately!) and I'd imagine whoever lost them would very much like to get them back. They were taken quite recently (21st August) and I know the exact location where I found them, so I was wondering if it may be worth trying to trace them. I'm not too sure how I'd go about doing that though, and a large part of me is thinking it might be easier to just wipe the cards and be happy that I've got two free CF cards!

So, what do people think I should do? Just erase them or try doing a bit of detective work?
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you are going to be such the hero to this family, what you have and will return to them is priceless.

well done, old chap
 
geekman said:
The photos are the usual holiday stuff (no hot naked girls unfortunately!)
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If this gets traced back you probably want to edit that because you'll go from hero to weirdo in the photo owner's eyes pretty quickly :p

Don't worry though.. we were all thinking it.
 
as stated, this must be promotional material. you can see the same pictures on their facebook page.

i also thought when looking at the pictures that i had no clue as to who the family was that took the pictures... all of them were of random people...

good detective work none the less!
 
I haven't seen any mention yet that the people in the photo might not be from the UK. Camping in France is serious business for French / Spanish / German / Dutch, etc, so ignore all posts about speaking to Canon UK, or looking for hire car companies are silly.

Just focus on the hotel / campsite place now and it will turn up the goods.

Of course, the fact these were found in a forest in France suggests they have been kidnapped, murdered and all the thief wanted was their camera....

Just FYI though, the car is registered to (and from) Loire Atlantique, Nantes. I think, unlike here, that departmental code changes to where the owner lives (not the car), although the plate remains the same.
 
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geekman said:
I recently found two Sandisk Ultra CF cards in a wood in the south of france, a couple of hundred meters from the nearest road. They looked as if they'd been sitting there for quite a while and I didn't reckon they'd work, but I decided to pick them up and see what I could do with them. It's only now that I've had the time to take a look, and surprisingly both cards are working and have around 500 photos on them from someone's holiday.

The photos are the usual holiday stuff (no hot naked girls unfortunately!) and I'd imagine whoever lost them would very much like to get them back. They were taken quite recently (21st August) and I know the exact location where I found them, so I was wondering if it may be worth trying to trace them. I'm not too sure how I'd go about doing that though, and a large part of me is thinking it might be easier to just wipe the cards and be happy that I've got two free CF cards!

So, what do people think I should do? Just erase them or try doing a bit of detective work?
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Very honest of you - well done!

Some cameras can embed geo-tagged EXIF data within them. This might not be useful initially as it will merely identify the holiday photograph's location of scene. However, forensically, if there are deleted photographs (or other data/files for that matter) on the cards, they may allude to the location of a residential premises, or even, sometimes people photograph bills/statements which have their address on them, and other details present.

I've also had people store word documents, and other data on SD cards, so it is to be treated essentially as a removable storage device *not* just storage for videos and photographs. Also had photographs taken from an iPhone placed on an SD card found in another device - providing geo-tagged location data.

You can check for local forensic experts nearby (it may cost a fair amount though), however I can take a look for you, free of charge. It is entirely up to you, but that is one of the things that *we* do in this field.
 
Had a similar issue with an ipad I found at work.

Ran same images through an image search engine (can't remember which one) and found them on a social network eventually.

Barely even thanked me for returning it the *****, I wish I'd just kept it now.
 
good read :D

how is the search going ?, have you managed to get a reply from the hotel yet ?

think its a realy good thing your doing old chap :), free karma for you sir!
 
UPDATE:

Finally had a Facebook reply message from the campsite today almost a month later lol...Make of this as you will... they don't seem too bothered, having said that if its promo stuff....

Hello,

Thank you for your message and sorry that we did not reply earlier.

We are happy to let you know that those photo's are taken on La Forge de Sainte Marie. Those photo's are taken for promotional material by a professional photographer and were available for all our clients at that time. We still have the original sticks here. When a client is missing their copy they can always contact us. So far no one did. Thank you and the other forum members for your search. If we get in contact with one of our clients who lost the cards we will inform you.

Should you need additional information please consult the website, send us an email or call us on :- 00 33 3 25 94 42 00

Kind regards,

Laura.
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