Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of my Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to print more photos. Most of our
Speaker 1: photos exist in the digital space these days, and for
Speaker 1: many images that can be fine, but we should still
Speaker 1: choose special ones to give a physical form. Printed photos
Speaker 1: can become our most cherished possessions, helping us relive memories
Speaker 1: long after those eras have faded into the past. I
Speaker 1: am old enough to remember when we didn't have photos
Speaker 1: of every moment in our lives. Probably for a lot
Speaker 1: of teenage Shenanigans, that is a good thing, but in
Speaker 1: any case, you would take photos of special events and
Speaker 1: have to wait a while to get them printed and returned,
Speaker 1: with no way to review the images ahead of time.
Speaker 1: Some you thought would be great were duds, but some weren't,
Speaker 1: and since they existed in physical form, you would often
Speaker 1: put them somewhere you would look. These days, we take
Speaker 1: photos constantly, fifty images to get the exact right tilt
Speaker 1: of the head, but then you share the best online
Speaker 1: and move on. There is a lack of permanence here.
Speaker 1: One of my most treasured possessions is a series of
Speaker 1: photos of my children from twenty eighteen that we printed
Speaker 1: up and framed. My two year old is aware of
Speaker 1: how special these are to me. The other day he
Speaker 1: told told me he wanted to show me something, and
Speaker 1: he took me to the wall where the photos are displayed.
Speaker 1: He noted a problem he wasn't there because of course
Speaker 1: he wasn't born yet when the photos were taken and framed.
Speaker 1: But we took family photos this fall and I had
Speaker 1: the photographer take many pictures of my little guy. I
Speaker 1: printed up and framed one of them and it is
Speaker 1: going up on the wall soon. My toddler knows that
Speaker 1: I have thousands of pictures of him on my phone,
Speaker 1: but even he less than three years old, I knew
Speaker 1: there was something more special about the printed and framed variety.
Speaker 1: It is not challenging to print photos. There are lots
Speaker 1: of companies that can still do this for you. My
Speaker 1: family has used Shutterfly for many prints, including some we
Speaker 1: print up on mugs and ornaments and in photo of books.
Speaker 1: I have started using frame Bridge as well for bigger pictures.
Speaker 1: You can send in a high resolution image and then
Speaker 1: choose from their framing and matting options. This can honestly
Speaker 1: be a less than ten minute process for many things. Now,
Speaker 1: creating photo books might take a bit longer, but maybe
Speaker 1: not much longer. The biggest part of that project is
Speaker 1: probably choosing the photos. I agree that this can be intimidating,
Speaker 1: which is one reason my family fell a bit behind
Speaker 1: on our yearly photo books we made twenty nineteen and then,
Speaker 1: well it is now, but a rather brilliant solution recently
Speaker 1: presented itself. My daughter shares my Apple I D for
Speaker 1: her iPad, and so she had access to my photo library.
Speaker 1: She went in to choose the photos from that she liked,
Speaker 1: and Shutterfly has a function where they arrange the photos
Speaker 1: in a reasonable layout. My daughter put in captions and
Speaker 1: all I had to do was go in and edit
Speaker 1: a tiny bit. If you have older kids who enjoy
Speaker 1: pictures and memory keeping, they might like to take on
Speaker 1: this project too, Or if things are really crazy, you
Speaker 1: can hire someone for a few hours. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people like chat books because they print up
Speaker 1: your photos from Instagram, and for many people these are
Speaker 1: already the highlights. But whatever you use, be sure to
Speaker 1: print up some photos. We seldom managed to go back
Speaker 1: through our photo libraries with the specific purpose of highlighting
Speaker 1: good memories. It is all just jumbled in there, including
Speaker 1: the ten other photos where you didn't like the angle
Speaker 1: of your chin from that special occasion. Printing photos forces
Speaker 1: some choices. You choose the best, and then you honor
Speaker 1: those photos by putting them somewhere you can see. Every
Speaker 1: time you see the photos, you will remember good times
Speaker 1: and can pause and be grateful. That is a lot
Speaker 1: of blessing for very little money or time. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to
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