italy - 2006, 2007, 2008 imm026

Maria ... do you utilize any s/w such as PS or LR?  Many of your shots could benefit greatly from exposure compensation and other digital development.  Your postings could benefit tremendously from such efforts.

no, I don't - I have Macromedia Fireworks but that deletes the image info - OK, not important at this scans, but at the digital photos yes

I did look at this shot in detail and couldn't really do much with the shot as is with LR5 ... I am assuming that this is a scan from an old 3x5 or 4x6 print.  A lot of the issues are likely related to your scans.  What kind of scanner are you using?  

no, it is a scan from slide, done by a shop called Drogerie Markt. I have no idea what scanner they are using, thanks!

When I downloaded this shot and looked at it with LR, there were lots of artifacts that looked like scanning problems.  Either that or the slide was not of good quality.  Was the slide old with aging?

well, it was a slide from 2005 scanned in 2005. Now it is old, but when it was scanned it was not