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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 2: Today's tip is to print up some of your photos

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Speaker 2: and frame them. Giving physical photos a place of honor

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Speaker 2: will add a little extra joy to your day, and

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Speaker 2: if you give framed photos as gifts, they can add

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Speaker 2: joy to your loved ones days too. So I realized

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Speaker 2: the other day that I had a fair number of

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Speaker 2: printed baby photos of my eldest child. Alert listeners will

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Speaker 2: recall that he was born in two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 2: which was right as smartphones were taking the world by storm.

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Speaker 2: We are not early adopters in our family, so we

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Speaker 2: generally took pictures of him with our digital camera, and

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Speaker 2: we dutifully upload these photos to Shutterfly and print them.

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Speaker 2: Then I got an iPhone around the time my second

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Speaker 2: kid was born in two thousand and nine. I probably

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Speaker 2: have more baby photos total of him, just because it

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Speaker 2: was suddenly so easy to snap pictures when we were

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Speaker 2: out and about, But I don't have as many printed.

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Speaker 2: I think that's probably true for a lot of our lives.

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Speaker 2: After two thousand and nine or so. We have a

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Speaker 2: lot of pictures, but not many printed pictures. Now there

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Speaker 2: are obvious reasons for that. My Apple iCloud account isn't

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Speaker 2: going anywhere, I hope, so I can always look back

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Speaker 2: on earlier photos while I'm standing in line at the

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Speaker 2: grocery store. One of the reasons we printed photos in

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Speaker 2: the past is so we could share them with loved ones.

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Speaker 2: Smartphones solved this problem because we just text the photo over,

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Speaker 2: no need to use a middleman. But I think printed

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Speaker 2: photos are even more special than digital ones. There's something

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Speaker 2: that feels more notable about a physical object, and when

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Speaker 2: we bother to frame something, it truly stands out as special. Fortunately,

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Speaker 2: this really doesn't have to be as much of an

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Speaker 2: ordeal as it has been at times in the past.

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Speaker 2: A lot of sights like Shutterfly or Framebridge will print

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Speaker 2: and frame a photo for you. You can test out

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Speaker 2: different frames and mattings online with the image of your

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Speaker 2: photo to see what you like best. Then they will

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Speaker 2: ship you the finished product easy. You can also hit

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Speaker 2: the easy button by buying a handful of clear plastic frames.

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Speaker 2: I bought a dozen or so of these for a pittance,

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Speaker 2: and now I can rotate through photos on my desk

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Speaker 2: by sticking a new one in these frames every few

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Speaker 2: months or so. Since the frames are clear, it doesn't

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Speaker 2: really matter what the colors and the photos happen to be.

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Speaker 2: Of course, you can go upscale. Last fall, I got

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Speaker 2: portraits taken of all my kids, both individual and as

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Speaker 2: a group. Then I purchased the digital files and printed

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Speaker 2: up and framed fifteen individual shots. With a little help,

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Speaker 2: we got these arranged into a gallery wall. I absolutely

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Speaker 2: love walking by these every day. I also had the

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Speaker 2: photographer print up and frame two very large portraits of

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Speaker 2: all my kids together. My husband and I each put

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Speaker 2: one of these in our home offices. Now this was

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Speaker 2: not cheap by any means, but I love seeing my

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Speaker 2: kid's faces in a place of honor in my house.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps you have a family member like a grandparent, who

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Speaker 2: would appreciate a framed photo of the grandkids, or even better,

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Speaker 2: a framed photo from somewhere you all went together. When

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Speaker 2: my husband's extended family all got together last summer, I

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Speaker 2: hired a photographer to come take some shots of all

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Speaker 2: of us. We were able to print up and frame

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Speaker 2: a portrait of my mother in law and all her

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Speaker 2: kids and grandkids to give to her. That is certainly

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Speaker 2: better than just having the photo on her phone. Now

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Speaker 2: you don't have to frame everything. It's good to just

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Speaker 2: print some photos on their own, print them for relatives,

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Speaker 2: send them in a card. It's a great way to

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Speaker 2: keep in touch. Use photos as bookmarks, pend them to

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Speaker 2: the bulletin board in your house where you put things

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Speaker 2: that you want people to see. Go ahead and order

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Speaker 2: a lot. Practically speaking, if shipping is involved, each additional

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Speaker 2: photo adds literally pennies to the cost. Most of the

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Speaker 2: cost is in the shipping, so you don't need to

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Speaker 2: hold back. Photos are a powerful way of capturing special moments,

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Speaker 2: and in this digital age, printed photos catch our attention

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Speaker 2: and feel particularly special. Framed photos feel even more so.

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Speaker 2: So spend a few minutes this week and a few

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Speaker 2: dollars turning those files on your phone into art. I

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Speaker 2: am guessing you will be glad you did. In the meantime,

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Speaker 2: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 2: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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Speaker 2: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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Speaker 2: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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