Your past is important – not only to you, but to your children, grandchildren and other relatives. Your photos represent important pieces of your family history. All photographic materials deteriorate with time. Old slides and negatives tend to color-shift over time. To view your slides, … [Read more...]
10 Tips for Taking Better Photos
10 Tips for Taking Better Photos Get down on their level – Hold your camera at the subject’s eye level to capture the power of those magnetic gazes and mesmerizing smiles. For children and pets, that means getting down on their level to take the picture. Use a plain background – Before … [Read more...]
Give the Gift of Your Family Story
In this season of gift giving, one of the best gifts you can give to your family is your story. In the summer of 2001, Marshall Duke and Robyn Fivush, two psychologists at Emory University, conducted a study to test Duke’s wife’s hypothesis that “The children who know a lot about their families … [Read more...]
5 Steps of a Photo Organizing Project
When I began my journey as a personal photo organizer, I also began to organize my many years worth of photos. I have always very good about getting my photos into the slide-in style albums or organizing many of them into fancy shoe boxes. However, the ones in the albums aren't labeled very well … [Read more...]
Spring Cleaning Your Photos
Spring has finally bloomed here in southern New England. Spring is a beautiful season when everything outdoors starts to wake up after a long winter, when the grass and the trees start to turn green and the plants open up with their rainbow of colors. As we all come out of our winter cocoons, we … [Read more...]
Preparing for Summer Vacation – Creating a Vacation Organizer
Has it ever happened to you that you get back from your vacation with all kinds of brochures, maps, ticket stubs and receipts that end up in a pile or an envelope somewhere that you can’t find when you want to? Or that you want to organize your photos into a memory album and can’t remember which day … [Read more...]
The First Snow
Last week we had our first snowfall of the 2012/13 winter season in Connecticut and, of course, I took a picture. Every year I always take a picture of the first snowfall, and because of that, I have a record of the date of the first snow fall from my photos. Even though the photos are usually of … [Read more...]
Organizing your photos is like gardening
Organizing your photos is like gardening – if you chose to weed the garden and feed and prune the flowers you will have a beautiful garden that you can enjoy. If you ignore the weeds they will eventually overtake the flowers and if you don’t water and feed the plants they may wither and die. Either … [Read more...]
