The digital age is amazing! The novelty of having a camera in your pocket at all times is just incredible and allows us to take snapshots of EVERYTHING. It's revolutionized photography. In fact, I had planned on quitting professional photography just before digital cameras became cost and quality comparable to film cameras. Digital changed my photography forever!
The downside of digital is the glut of images that we have. We take so many photographs that we take them and then forget about them...until Throwback Thursday LOL! To some degree, photographs have become devalued. They're just pixels displayed on whatever screen we view them on. They're temporary! So sad.
But photographs weren't meant to be stored deep in your computer only to be seen when you need to go back to them. Photographs were meant to be displayed! That's why most of my wedding packages include a print credit so clients can get prints to frame and hang on the wall. I also offer albums that will last generations. Your computer can crash, the dvd can get lost, the technology will change...but prints and albums can last for a hundred years or who knows how long!
The walls of our house are covered with framed prints, canvas prints, and metal prints (very cool). We have pictures of our kids from babies to the most recent Christmas card photo hanging all over the place. There are VOLUMES of photo albums in our living room that we break out from time to time to look at. THIS is where photographs belong. Out in the open, being displayed, enjoyed. I'll admit, I love sharing images online, but they only last until the next image pops up.
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