Photo Survey

[lalicopa]

When Laszlo was born, I was pretty anal about getting prints of all the pictures we took of him and putting them all in albums, in perfect, annotated, chronological order. I got lax in the last year or so and now have a few boxes of pictures - sort of in chronological order.

Curious if, since the digital camera revolution, you all still use hard copies to keep, or do you just keep the digital images digital for emailing and such? I'm a bit torn because I know that I still love looking at my old baby pictures in my mom's albums, but I'm sure when my kids are old enough there will be some simple technology to put digital pictures in similar albums.

The only person who isn't "connected" is my mom, and she sees the pictures on my computer and I order prints for her if she wants.

What do y'all do?

Comments

[mollyf.livejournal.com]

It's different for me since Sasha is an only, but I do get prints for photo albums and to snail mail to the Bulgarian family. Maybe about 20 percent of the photos I shoot or post online ever get printed. I shoot tons more photos since I don't have to pay for processing. It works out somehow—I have as many prints as I ever did before I got the digital camera.

My reasoning is that media and media viewers have changed so much in just my lifetime. My family has movie and voice recordings that noone can hear or see anymore. However, we have photo albums with pictures from three and four generations ago that we can all see.

[k425.livejournal.com]

I take loads of pics with the digi, store them all on the hard drive, and get prints of the ones I really like for the photo album and for family.