Both physics and chemistry have encouraged important scientific advances. Some of those advances have paved the way for creation of photo Italian charms. The characteristics of light are no longer transformed into significant chemical changes. Those characteristics are now used to make digital photos. Meanwhile, chemistry has been used to improve the protection of those photos. Today’s photo Italian charms all have an over-coating, a chemical coating the helps protect the charm’s small photo. Many Italian charms also have special chemicals on the metal in one or more charms. Those chemicals manage to prevent the rusting or tarnishing of that charm’s metal.

Somewhere in Shiraz, Iran, in the basement of one, long-time resident of that city some photographs lay at the bottom of a trunk. Could those photos one day decorate one or more of the photo Italian charms? Who took those photos, and why are they hidden in a trunk?

At the present time, it is difficult to imagine the chain of events that might cause one or more of those photos to appear on any of the photo Italian charms. At the present time there is no computer at the home with the trunk that contains those photos. The family that owns the photos has no easy way to contact any of the Italian charm makers.

Those hidden photographs were taken by a man who once had a photography store there in Shiraz. He had learned photography skills from his own father. He then taught those skills to his son, a man who now marvels at the speed with which digital pictures can be created.

At one time, the now deceased photographer in Shiraz had no conventional film on which to create a negative. At one time, he would make a negative using a large piece of glass. The chemicals once used on traditional film had to be applied to that piece of glass.

Creation of a photograph from such a negative required the willingness to undertake painstaking and time consuming efforts. The photographer in Shiraz did not hesitate to put forth such effort. He spent many hours in his darkroom.

As that photographer in Shiraz worked in his darkroom, he had no way of imagining the changes that were coming to the world of photography. He had never heard of either digital photography or of photo Italian charms. He did not know that his many photographs might seem like a real “treasure trove” to any maker of photo Italian charms.

He had photographed many well-known and well-respected people. Today, a collection of photos, such as the collection he created, might be used to create an online photo gallery. That gallery, if it existed, could give residents of Shiraz and the surrounding area a chance to make unique photo charms.

Of course, since his photos are now hidden in a basement, away from government “eyes,” there seems little chance that any of those photos might be used on an Italian charm. Still customized charms might one day be worn by the residents of Shiraz.

One day, someone might decide to sell those photographs that are now in a basement trunk. That could put Italian charms on the citizens of Shiraz. Maybe such charms might even be worn by someone who likes to paint pictures. Maybe one or more of those painted pictures might then appear on a picture Italian charm.