Today’s NaBloPoMo Prompt: Do you still print out photos in albums or are most your photos digital?
“Still.” Ha. As if I ever did. Nope, I’m one-hundred percent digital, one hundred percent of the time.
My pictures are for Instagram, Flickr, 500px, Viewbug, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter. I do hope that people look at them, but I don’t know what the point of printing them out in an album would be.
We only have one photo album in this house, and that’s our wedding album. We had a professional photographer at our wedding (it was a three day event, actually) but after we bought the photos it took us a year to pick the pictures we wanted and do the layout and have the darn thing printed. Now it gathers dust. Oh, for the first few years when people came to visit us for the first time, the wedding album would be on a coffee table for folks to look at. And a few people who weren’t at the wedding liked looking at it. But just once. I mean, maybe 5% of all the photos made it into that thing.
I’m trying to think what would be the point of printing out the photos at all. In another post I mentioned a cookbok my wife compiled and we printed for her sister. It has a few pictures of food I took, but I don’t know if that counts. And then there’s this service we found that will print a bunch of greeting cards for you using your instagram photos. Does that count as printing pictures.
Broken record alert: I’ve said it before, that I don’t take pictures just to create memories, and so photo albums are just not a part of my universe. I suppose when I go to someone’s house and see an album sitting there I’ll flip through it out of curiosity. But just the once.
And all of this begs the question if the pictures I take are even print-worthy.
Today’s NaBloPoMo Photo Prompt: Drama