All Those Digital Files and Nothing to Show For It: Print Your Photos
August 30, 2023
Everyone wants digital files. You can save them forever and use them over and over again. That sounds like the best bang for your buck, right? But let me ask you this, how many times have you actually used those digital files, or better yet printed them? For most people the answer is never! You throw them onto a hard drive or on the cloud, and you never look at them again. Storing things is easy, so we store EVERYTHING! But when you save everything it becomes an organizational nightmare. We want to keep all these photos because we think we are saving memories, but sifting through them becomes such an unmanageable task that we end up with nothing – no photo books, no photos hanging on the wall, not even a shoe box full of prints. Let’s face it, digital storage is like a black hole. Once something goes in, it rarely comes back out.
We all have good intentions. We say we’ll make that photo book later or that we’ll print those photos for the wall when we aren’t as busy. But guess what, we are ALWAYS busy. We keep putting it off, but all the while we are waiting for a “good time” to make the photo book, we are just accumulating more photos. By the time you get around to making that book, you might have photos on three different computers, multiple external hard drives, several clouds, and your phone! Now you have tons of photos in tons of places, and the idea of making a book is overwhelming, let alone actually getting started. Does this sound familiar?
So the next time you do a session, why not just add an album, and let me take care of everything for you? I’ll select the photos, design the album, have it printed by a high quality professional print lab, and ship it right to your doorstep. And it will be sitting on your coffee table in two weeks. Better yet, order two, and you’ll have the perfect holiday gift ready for grandparents too!
Maybe you really want some photos on your wall but don’t know which photos to pick or how to arrange them. Let me design a wall gallery for you, order everything you need, and have the wall art shipped to your doorstep ready to hang.
At the very least, just order some prints, and put them in a shoe box. Having them in a physical form will give your kids access to them, and I promise they will look through them. They will love remembering all the wonderful things you have done together as a family. After all, that is why you wanted the photos in the first place, right?
So don’t stop at getting your photos taken; let me help your print your photos! It will save you time and energy, but most importantly it will make sure it gets done. Don’t let your memories go into the digital black hole and be lost forever.