Do you print?

Sunflower

Photos, that is.  I have a bazillion photos on my computer and I need to print them and put them in albums.  It is a mammoth job, but one I will be doing and soon, I am about a year behind...  


I do feel a bit retro in my printing  and filling albums, this is backed by the fact that I have trouble even finding decent photo albums now.  

Remember way back (ahem!) when the photo option was a 35mm film and a wait while the film was all taken before you had any idea how successful your photos have been?


Then came that wait, holiday is over and you have been home a week, now to see if the holiday snaps were all in, or out, of focus.  Will you remember anyone or anywhere on the photos?  Did you get everyone in the photo at that party or did you chop half of their heads off?  


The fat cardboard envelope is returned to you with your printed memories inside.  I seem to remember that it was a tense moment when the quality of your photos was revealed.   


Do we all take an awful lot more pictures now?  I know I do.  We can instantly see what we have captured and we can check to see whether  everyone is looking in the right direction and  kind of normal.  No more chances with a group photo and always the one person who has their eyes shut or has just wandered off.


Not to mention the phone photographer, using every app available to capture the best effect and photo.  Are we Hipstamatic, SepiaCamera, Instagram, Polarize and Pocket Booth 'd out?  Who can take all of those pictures, then check to see which is the best one?   Just take the photo would you!  


Admittedly, I am totally the person who uses all of those apps and I love them, a chance to play around and get some cool arty farty shots!  Who wouldn't grab that?!  I feel like the kid in the candy store, getting to try everything and then, I can print them out!


Yes, I will continue to print and album my photos.  I love to grab a random album and look through it with my boys.  They get to hoot at Mummy or Daddy when we were 'young', or they see themselves as babies and I get to see their faces light up!  


I can't imagine I would flip open the computer and start randomly browsing photos.  I am also a little afraid that my computer will blow up or some other drama and all my photos will be gone for ever and ever.   That would make for a very sad moment.  


I don't miss the hit and miss photo taking of a few years ago, but I always liked to rip open the photo envelope to see what I had managed to capture.  I suppose I could challenge myself not to look at any photos I take for a while, then look in a week and see what I have.  


No, I can't see that working, I want to see and I want to see now!

Max and bike wheel.  Taken with Instagram.

'Pickle' the scary cat (he had just seen the dog!). Taken on Hipstamatic