Gone are the days of the "bad" photo that we look back on and laugh or cringe at (DELETE)...gone are the days of anticipation, waiting for your film to be processed at the drugstore, gone is the joy at opening a fresh stack of photos and remembering what your had forgotten you took photos of...
On the super happy fun side: as technology evolves so can we. The digital camera can save us time and money, we are not really limited to the number of photos we can take, we can recharge the batteries and even hook the camera up to our tv and voila, instant slideshow, we can even opt to print the photos and put them into albums to enjoy at anytime... uhhhh, albums? I HAVEN'T MADE A PHOTO ALBUM SINCE 2005 - OMG. THAT'S GOING ON 6 YEARS. As you may guess from my shouting typeface...this is a problem for me.
[Side note: to be fair, I do have stacks of photos from over 6 years ago waiting to be put into albums...this is on my up and coming to do list. I'll get to that next week!]
The reason I'm all over the photo album thing now is because we have a 2.5 year old who loves to look at photos. My daughter, my mom and I took a fabulous girls trip last September to Saskatoon to visit my grandmother and family. After the trip my mom surprised us with the cutest photo album full of photos from the trip. My daughter can run to her room, pull out the photo album and look at it at any time - I don't have to help her do it (although we love to look through it together) and I don't have to turn on the computer (as much as I love my computer, technology can also be draining for me)...
So, although I'm sure we have 30,000 photos of our daughter, and such, I'm ready to take on the challenge of putting those photos into albums. Now, I'm going to give myself a break, where we've used the "super model quick sequence shot" (the photos that document the same thing happening at intervals of 2 seconds) is where I'll be editing. Not all 30,000 photos have to make it into the album. In fact, I think I'll be shopping for an album style and try to limit myself to the number of photos that will fit inside. Sounds like a plan? Is anyone with me? I know there's a few of you who have already done this and I salute you (!!!)... I also know there are a few crafters and students in creative fields out there who I'd encourage to document your work in some sort of fancy manner.
P.S. I love that you can turn your digital photos into hard copied photo books online...maybe I'll look into that too - the big factor for me right now will be price. How many photos can I squeeze into one printed photo book for how much? If anyone has done it let me know how it went...
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