photo books

Being rather Old School-ish from a technological and (biological, too, actually) standpoint, it took me a long time to adjust to digital photography. When Sparky and I got married, I made a promise to myself that I would always keep up on photos. It was so simple. Every film I got developed, I put into a photo album immediately. I kept a couple of extra albums on hand so that I didn't get caught in the, oops-haven't-got-the-album,-sixteen-rolls-of-film-have-built-up-and I-just-don't-seem-to-be-able-to-get-to-the-store-and-pick up-an-album-so-I-guess-I-will-just-have-to-give-up-on-pictures-for-the-rest-of-my-life-and-put-them-in-a-shoe-box-like-I-used-to problem.

 It was so easy.

Then Sparky got a digital camera.  I wasn't willing to let go of my camera, so we had two modes of pictures happening, I had to put the thumbscrews to Sparky so that he would download the pictures and order them as prints so I could album-ize them and chronolog-ize them with my own pictures.

It was so complicated.

Then my camera broke, and I had to give in.  We still ordered hard copy prints and put them in albums, but it was much more complicated and I had to rely on someone else.  Kind of a spiritual journey I guess.

Anyway.  Now we do photobooks.  So cool.

And it is so easy.

Believe me, if I can do it, anyone can.  we use Shutterfly and have been really pleased with the results and the service.  Technical support is readily available, and problems are dealt with quickly, efficiently and politely.  At any rate, I can do it.  Orignally we had a photo date every 3-6 months and made up an album.  Now I do a yearbook, and books for special occasions, holidays and such.

But.  The coolest part of all is that over the years (decades, now) our kids have spent hours and hours and HOURS looking at the photo albums and learning our story.  And now the story continues in on digital, custom, online, weighs one tenth of the old version, takes up one tenth of the space of the old version photo albums to pour over.

I'm so catching up.