Moments such as a baby’s first steps, infancy – childhood in general, the first day of school all the way through college graduation, weddings, anniversaries, landmark birthdays, homecomings etc. Pictures are a way to capture – by freezing in time- these moments we can’t hold on to but would like to re-live again and again. One day your bringing your precious little one home from the hospital and the next thing you know you wake up to that “child” begging you to borrow the car to visit their significant other one last time before parting ways for college. Worse yet, we often don’t realize it before it’s too late. Even more, printed pictures are shared easily with others, and authenticate our important past.Īlas, the unfortunate reality of life is that it passes us by way too quickly. Printed pictures are incredibly important as they not only allow us to capture a certain moment in time, but also preserve it for generations to come and so are able to relive the wonderful memory or experience again and again. The kicker is, although I am definitely a product of the digital age, even I recognize that it’s more than just coincidence that all of those pictures I see regularly are printed pictures. Yet, despite this fact, I can count on my two hands the number of pictures of my son I see regularly (by that I mean more than once). I also happen to be a product of the “digital age” - born during the early years of the home computer- and, therefore, always have some kind of picture taking device in my pocket and at hand.Īs you might expect, I don’t find shame in taking advantage of this reality and, as a result, have thousands of digital pictures of my son and my family strewn across multiple devices. Like all parents I simply can't get enough of my child. I am the proud parent of a marvelous six-year-old boy. This takes us to printed pictures, and to help exemplify that point I will open up a little bit about myself: Of course, pictures remain as important as ever but we need to make sure we're not only doing them, but also doing right by them. But does that mean we appreciate pictures any more? Are we doing pictures right? We live in a world where everyone has endless access to a camera and pictures are constantly being taken.
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