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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is to print up some of your photos
Speaker 2: and frame them. Giving physical photos a place of honor
Speaker 2: will add a little extra joy to your day, and
Speaker 2: if you give framed photos as gifts, they can add
Speaker 2: joy to your loved ones days too. So I realized
Speaker 2: the other day that I had a fair number of
Speaker 2: printed baby photos of my eldest child. Alert listeners will
Speaker 2: recall that he was born in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 2: which was right as smartphones were taking the world by storm.
Speaker 2: We are not early adopters in our family, so we
Speaker 2: generally took pictures of him with our digital camera, and
Speaker 2: we dutifully upload these photos to Shutterfly and print them.
Speaker 2: Then I got an iPhone around the time my second
Speaker 2: kid was born in two thousand and nine. I probably
Speaker 2: have more baby photos total of him, just because it
Speaker 2: was suddenly so easy to snap pictures when we were
Speaker 2: out and about, But I don't have as many printed.
Speaker 2: I think that's probably true for a lot of our lives.
Speaker 2: After two thousand and nine or so. We have a
Speaker 2: lot of pictures, but not many printed pictures. Now there
Speaker 2: are obvious reasons for that. My Apple iCloud account isn't
Speaker 2: going anywhere, I hope, so I can always look back
Speaker 2: on earlier photos while I'm standing in line at the
Speaker 2: grocery store. One of the reasons we printed photos in
Speaker 2: the past is so we could share them with loved ones.
Speaker 2: Smartphones solved this problem because we just text the photo over,
Speaker 2: no need to use a middleman. But I think printed
Speaker 2: photos are even more special than digital ones. There's something
Speaker 2: that feels more notable about a physical object, and when
Speaker 2: we bother to frame something, it truly stands out as special. Fortunately,
Speaker 2: this really doesn't have to be as much of an
Speaker 2: ordeal as it has been at times in the past.
Speaker 2: A lot of sights like Shutterfly or Framebridge will print
Speaker 2: and frame a photo for you. You can test out
Speaker 2: different frames and mattings online with the image of your
Speaker 2: photo to see what you like best. Then they will
Speaker 2: ship you the finished product easy. You can also hit
Speaker 2: the easy button by buying a handful of clear plastic frames.
Speaker 2: I bought a dozen or so of these for a pittance,
Speaker 2: and now I can rotate through photos on my desk
Speaker 2: by sticking a new one in these frames every few
Speaker 2: months or so. Since the frames are clear, it doesn't
Speaker 2: really matter what the colors and the photos happen to be.
Speaker 2: Of course, you can go upscale. Last fall, I got
Speaker 2: portraits taken of all my kids, both individual and as
Speaker 2: a group. Then I purchased the digital files and printed
Speaker 2: up and framed fifteen individual shots. With a little help,
Speaker 2: we got these arranged into a gallery wall. I absolutely
Speaker 2: love walking by these every day. I also had the
Speaker 2: photographer print up and frame two very large portraits of
Speaker 2: all my kids together. My husband and I each put
Speaker 2: one of these in our home offices. Now this was
Speaker 2: not cheap by any means, but I love seeing my
Speaker 2: kid's faces in a place of honor in my house.
Speaker 2: Perhaps you have a family member like a grandparent, who
Speaker 2: would appreciate a framed photo of the grandkids, or even better,
Speaker 2: a framed photo from somewhere you all went together. When
Speaker 2: my husband's extended family all got together last summer, I
Speaker 2: hired a photographer to come take some shots of all
Speaker 2: of us. We were able to print up and frame
Speaker 2: a portrait of my mother in law and all her
Speaker 2: kids and grandkids to give to her. That is certainly
Speaker 2: better than just having the photo on her phone. Now
Speaker 2: you don't have to frame everything. It's good to just
Speaker 2: print some photos on their own, print them for relatives,
Speaker 2: send them in a card. It's a great way to
Speaker 2: keep in touch. Use photos as bookmarks, pend them to
Speaker 2: the bulletin board in your house where you put things
Speaker 2: that you want people to see. Go ahead and order
Speaker 2: a lot. Practically speaking, if shipping is involved, each additional
Speaker 2: photo adds literally pennies to the cost. Most of the
Speaker 2: cost is in the shipping, so you don't need to
Speaker 2: hold back. Photos are a powerful way of capturing special moments,
Speaker 2: and in this digital age, printed photos catch our attention
Speaker 2: and feel particularly special. Framed photos feel even more so.
Speaker 2: So spend a few minutes this week and a few
Speaker 2: dollars turning those files on your phone into art. I
Speaker 2: am guessing you will be glad you did. In the meantime,
Speaker 2: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 2: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
Speaker 2: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
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