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Speaker 2: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is to print more photos.
Speaker 3: Most of our photos exist in the digital space these days,
Speaker 3: and for many images that can be fine, but we
Speaker 3: should still choose special ones to give a physical form.
Speaker 3: Printed photos can become our most cherished possessions, helping us
Speaker 3: relive memories long after those eras have faded into the past.
Speaker 3: I am old enough to remember when we didn't have
Speaker 3: photos of every moment in our lives. Probably for a
Speaker 3: lot of teenage Shenanigans, that is a good thing, but
Speaker 3: in any case, you would take photos of special events
Speaker 3: and have to wait awhile to get them printed and returned,
Speaker 3: with no way to review the images ahead of time.
Speaker 3: Some you thought would be great were duds, but some weren't,
Speaker 3: and since they existed in physical form, you would often
Speaker 3: put them somewhere you would look. These days, we take
Speaker 3: photos constantly, fifty images to get the exact right tilt
Speaker 3: of the head, but then you share the best online
Speaker 3: and move on. There is a lack of permanence here.
Speaker 3: One of my most treasured possessions is a series of
Speaker 3: photos of my children from twenty eighteen that we printed
Speaker 3: up and framed. My two year old is aware of
Speaker 3: how special these are to me. The other day he
Speaker 3: told me he wanted to show me something, and he
Speaker 3: took me to the wall where the photos are displayed.
Speaker 3: He noted a problem. He wasn't there because of course
Speaker 3: he wasn't born yet when the photos were taken and framed.
Speaker 3: But we took family photos this fall and I had
Speaker 3: the photographer take many pictures of my little guy. I
Speaker 3: printed up and framed one of them and it is
Speaker 3: going up on the wall soon. My toddler knows that
Speaker 3: I have thousands of pictures of him on my phone,
Speaker 3: but even he, less than three years old, knew there
Speaker 3: was something more special about the printed and framed variety.
Speaker 3: It is not challenging to print photos. There are lots
Speaker 3: of companies that can still do this for you. My
Speaker 3: family has used Shutterfly for many prints, including some we
Speaker 3: print up on mugs and ornaments and foe books. I
Speaker 3: have started using Framebridge as well for bigger pictures. You
Speaker 3: can send in a high resolution image and then choose
Speaker 3: from their framing and matting options. This can honestly be
Speaker 3: a less than ten minute process for many things. Now,
Speaker 3: creating photo books might take a bit longer, but maybe
Speaker 3: not much longer. The biggest part of that project is
Speaker 3: probably choosing the photos. I agree that this can be intimidating,
Speaker 3: which is one reason my family fell a bit behind
Speaker 3: on our yearly photo books. We made twenty nineteen and
Speaker 3: then well it is now twenty twenty two, but a
Speaker 3: rather brilliant solution recently presented itself. My daughter shares my
Speaker 3: Apple ID for her iPad, and so she had access
Speaker 3: to my photo library. She went to choose the photos
Speaker 3: from twenty twenty that she liked, and Shutterfly has a
Speaker 3: function where they arrange the photos in a reasonable layout.
Speaker 3: My daughter put in captions and all I had to
Speaker 3: do was go in and edit a tiny bit. If
Speaker 3: you have older kids who enjoy pictures in memory keeping,
Speaker 3: they might like to take on this project too, Or
Speaker 3: if things are really crazy, you can hire someone for
Speaker 3: a few hours. I know a lot of people like
Speaker 3: chat books because they print up your photos from Instagram,
Speaker 3: and for many people these are already the highlights. But
Speaker 3: whatever you use, be sure to print up some photos.
Speaker 3: We seldom managed to go back through our photo libraries
Speaker 3: with the specific purpose of highlighting good memories. It is
Speaker 3: all just jumbled in there, including the ten other photos
Speaker 3: where you didn't like the angle of your chin from
Speaker 3: that special occasion. Printing photos forces some choices. You choose
Speaker 3: the best, and then you honor those photos by putting
Speaker 3: them somewhere you can see. Every time you see the photos,
Speaker 3: you will remember good times and can pause and be grateful.
Speaker 3: That is a lot of blessing for very little money
Speaker 3: or time. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 3: and here's to making the most of our time.
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