How Can I Retain My Photographic Memories?
To many of us who are getting older, memories are best preserved in the pictures we have collected. Those of us who are older remember the admonition to keep the negatives so other pictures could be printed. The younger generation doesn’t even know what a negative is! How can I safely preserve my digital memories?
First, don’t be shy about taking plenty of pictures. With massive memory storage capabilities today, we don’t have to worry about the expense of taking an overexposed picture or fumbling with rolls of film. I purchased a large memory card for my digital camera in preparation for a special trip last summer. When I got home, it still said I could take another 10,000 pictures without running out of memory!
After collecting your photos, don’t be shy about deleting ones you don’t want for whatever reason. Don’t feel you have to keep every picture. However, you may want to keep some that contain special people, poses, or memories, even if they aren’t the best. After all, it doesn’t cost anything to keep it except memory.
Computer programs allow you to set up electronic photo albums and catalog the pictures in whatever way you want. Be sure to identify each picture as to place, time, event. I have boxes of slides my parents took in Europe but I don’t have any idea where they were taken. If they had labeled them clearly, they would be much more useful.
At this point you may feel you are done with your project. But remember how fragile your memories are. If they only exist on your hard drive, it only takes one crash and all is lost! Or if you have them on floppies, the media may be obsolete and they are as good as erased! Also, floppies are vulnerable to magnetic fields.
At first, when CDs came out, everyone thought they were much more indestructible than floppies. Since nothing needed to touch the surface, nothing wore out. But simple scratches, breaks, or heat damage could destroy your memories.
One answer to this is storing your photos in several places and several locations. If you store them on a CD, for example, keep copies at another home, at work, or in a safety deposit box. Back up hard drives and, if possible, do so on a network that guarantees they are in several locations around the country or world. As media changes, backup your memories on the new media. Imagine what you would now have if all your past pictures were stored on 5 ¼ floppy disks!
Today we can take and distribute, without printing, more pictures than people care to see. Just don’t forget that, with the cut in photography development cost, be sure to invest something so that you keep those precious memories for the next generation.
Following these tips should benefit you. But if you’re more interested in a professional handling your photography, consider the services of Expressions Photography, an experienced Virginia Beach Photographer. See their website portfolio for results.
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