The thought of organizing and sorting your printed photo collection can at first appear overwhelming. You have boxes and bins and albums all over the house and you are not sure where to start or how to preserve your photos. If you choose to tackle this project on your own, here are a few tips to … [Read more...]
Why is it important to preserve your family photos?
Why do you take photographs? To record a special moment To tell a story For enjoyment Photographs are a physical representation of our memories. They tell a story – they tell your story! If you don’t preserve your photos than those stories will be lost. There are studies that … [Read more...]
10 Reasons to Digitize Your Printed Family Photos Before It’s Too Late
Here is why it is important to digitize old photos to preserve printed family photos before it's too late. 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 … [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...]
