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In the Olden Days, We Looked at Photos in Books.
Vivi has been around (as in outside of my womb) for 199 days, I have taken approximately (according to my hard drive) 2,897 photos of her. 660 of which have ended up on Flickr. Do you know how many have ended up printed? In photo albums?
Exactly none.
One did get printed then shoved in my reading book when I traveled to Canada for work without her. I showed it to the people sitting next to me on the plane, anyone standing within a dozen feet of me and kissed it each night before bed.
It’s not even that I don’t have photo albums, I have two that I received as gifts with cards that read “This is how we looked at pictures in the old days.”
The old days being about 6 years ago.
When Addie was born I made a weekly trek to the local drugstore, stuck in my memory card and printed out every photo I had taken in the previous seven days. I came home and shoved them in little plastic sleeves in chronological order and looked over them regularly. Even today she likes to sit down and look through all her old baby photos.
I would include extras in cards to family and find that sending pictures forced me to keep in touch with my older family, specifically my grandparents who lived several states away. I started my blog as a way to keep all those family members who are far away updated on what is going on however not all of them read it. My grandparents don’t even have a computer.
Obviously I can’t be trucking down to the drugstore each week to print out the outrageous number of photos I have available to me, but I need to get some printed out and sent to my grandparents. Thankfully with the great advances in photo printing at home I won’t have to leave my house to print the latest and greatest of Vivi. If I wanted to print a picture of Addie, it was on 8.5″ x 11″ paper, super classy. With professional photo printing possible at home? There’s absolutely no excuse not to begin filling these photo books and filling the mail with well wishes and adorable photos.
Are you good at getting photos printed or do they live in your computer as well?
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Many thanks to Canon for sponsoring this post and for providing me (soon!) with a brand new shiny PIXMA printer to play with.
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CDN Mummy commented on Nov 18 11 at 4:54 pmAbout every 3 to 4 to 5 months I download my photos onto a Pharmacy’s website (Uniprix which is Canadian but Kodak does this too) usually when there is a sale on prints for 10 cents each when you order over 50 different prints. I print around100 photos each time. I do it all on my laptop at home and when they’re ready; I get a call to pick them up at our local Uniprix, which I’ve previously chosen. It’s takes a while to choose each photo and fix red eyes but I’d be doing that at the store anyway so I’m happier to be able to do it all from home. I’m one of the only people I know my age that actually has photo albums filled. I’ve used the service to make cups with pictures on it too and you can make photo books that make great gifts.
Meagan commented on Nov 18 11 at 7:36 pmMy smartphone is my photo album… only a little smaller than a standard printed photo and it can hold… I dunno, thousands? I want to get some photos printed for framing on the wall, but I don’t see any advantage to albums.
caseymullins commented on Nov 18 11 at 7:41 pmDepending on how old your kids are it’s a lot easier, and a lot more fun, for them to look at photos of themselves in albums as opposed to your phone.
What if the battery dies? Or if you lose it? Or it falls in water? Or is stolen?
I say this because I had a laptop die on me with hundreds of pictures locked inside of it that I will never see again.
caseymullins commented on Nov 18 11 at 7:46 pmThat’s a really great idea!
Meagan commented on Nov 18 11 at 10:25 pmSorry, the smilie was NOT for losing photos, that’s awful. If you still have the laptop, find a computer geek – they should be able to rescue your data unless the laptop literally exploded.
Meme commented on Nov 21 11 at 6:47 amI can’t let go of the old ways, and I have spent a fortune on photo albums because with digital cameras, I can’t stop taking pictures and then I print them all out to file!
AnnD commented on Nov 21 11 at 8:31 amEach of my kids has a little set of photo albums….they are pre-made and you can get them at Babies R Us and other retailers….they are all in a nice little box that shows off their spines (if you want to put them on a shelf) and my daughter’s is arranged in 4 little books that go from 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9 months, 9-12 months. My son’s is a different brand and goes from Newborn, First Year, Toddler.
So, those at least take care of the “young years,” I haven’t seen any for older kids though!
Tricia commented on Nov 21 11 at 12:56 pmI’m terrible at keeping up with printing photos and putting them in albums. I meant to make a scrapbook of my daughter’s first year… but instead 6 months worth of photos are shoved between the cover and first page of an otherwise empty album. I do, however, make a calendar each year, with photos of her, as a Christmas gift for my Mom. For each month I include photos taken in that month and so it acts as a sort of annual photo album.
roystonea commented on Dec 16 11 at 3:20 amI started my blog as a way to keep all those family members who are far away updated on what is going on however not all of them read it.
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