The Importance of Print
I often get asked what I think about camera phones and how it affects my business...
... People always seem really disappointed that as a professional dog photographer I don’t go off on a rant about how camera phones are taking away our business... Because basically they aren’t!
If you know me you’ll know that I truly believe that ALL photos are important - the snap on a camera phone of the dog dressed up in sunglasses and a hat or of your kids doing something silly as well as the professional photos capturing your family unit, the relationships between you all and the characters we professional photographers work so hard to capture.
Where phone snaps do fall down, in my opinion, is they seem forever consigned to your phone, rarely do people get them printed, popped in a frame and put up on the wall and that is a real shame.
Hand on heart, when was the last time you sat down and looked through your amazing memories on your phone or computer or in your Facebook albums? I’m guessing it’s quite likely never and that’s a shame. Yes sure you scrolled back frantically through your camera roll to show great auntie Agatha the pic of Buster leaping over the log but can you imagine the fun you could have looking back through boxes of actual printed photos?
Whenever I visit my mum and dad I am often found in dad’s study picking out a box of photos (my dad has them all labelled by year!) to look through, on occasion I’ll show a photo to mum and dad and ask who is in it which more often than not results in stories being fondly remembered and shared.
These photos are a small part of history, of a time gone by never to come again, and a reminder of everything in our life that has shaped us into who we are now.
Some of these photos I don’t remember at all (what were my parents thinking with that hair cut?!), some of them remind me of the special people in my life that are no longer here and some of them just remind me of fun times I’ve had
Would I spend time looking through photos from 30 or ahem! 40 years ago on a phone or a computer? Absolutely not! We spend so much time on screens these days as it is so it’s a welcome break to get away from the computer or phone and enjoy reliving old memories, holding the slightly yellowing photos in my hands and being grateful that my dad was a very keen amateur photographer and whilst at the time I hated sitting on a stool with my brother whilst dad was screeching SMILE at us, I am so thankful he did.
Why don’t you make some time this weekend to print off your photos from your phone - they don’t have to be big, (there are lots of companies out there who offer amazingly cheap 6 x 4 prints like photobox, snappy snaps, printerpix etc), and get them put in a box to look through one afternoon.
Who cares that they might fade in time or not be the perfect colour balance? Who cares that they may be a little soft in focus or not perfectly composed?
These pics are your history, your memories, your family heirloom
If when you’ve printed out your photos you realise that there’s so much more about your dog or your family you want to capture then why not book a professional photoshoot so you can add some photos in frames around your house to remind you that your do or your family is special... Photo memories matter and I would love for you to have the same boxes of photos of you and your family as I do of mine.
All of our photo collections include some kind of physical print, even the digital collections - there’s no extra charge for them it’s just something I firmly believe in and want you to be able to keep these special memories forever.
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Mash, my miniature dachshund, has brought so much to my life, he's my fur baby, my best buddy and my loyal companion - and he's a right little monster (but if you're also a dachshund owner you'll know that already!)
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