Get to know your camera! If you are going to take photos, it helps to know and understand the camera that you are using. Be it a point-n-shoot, DSLR, or even your smart phone, you will get better results by knowing the various aspects of the camera you are using. I know it can be …
There are several photo challenges as we start the New Year and they all can help you take better photos. Then main way is that you are actually taking pictures! Let’s start with a very popular 365 photo challenge. You commit to taking a photo each and every day of the year. It’s a marathon, …
As we begin a new year many people will make New Year’s resolutions. Some will resolve to lose weight or get fit. Some will resolve to make more money or spend more time with family. I’d like to offer you 13 things you can do to get your photos and the stories they tell organized, …
It’s that time of year again. My boys are both looking forward to and dreading going back to school. It’s a time to capture growth and change from year to year. Here are some tips for taking photos on the first day of school. Begin the day with a picture of your child in bed …
We were in the car on the way to a play date when my youngest piped up from the back seat: “Do my birth siblings know I exist?” We have five minutes in the car and this is when my son decides to ask this tough question that I don’t have an answer for. The …
What are you doing with all the printed photos you have? Unless you are younger than 12 and your parents were early adopters of the digital camera, you will have printed photos of your life to deal with. All of our photos pre-children are film! Most of the photos once the kids came are digital. …
Our family was at the mall recently for the monthly Lego mini-build and went to Chick-fil-a for dinner. The Kid’s meal came with a book, or rather a kit for the child to make a book about their family. It was a scrapbook with questions about the people in your family, grandparents, aunts and uncles, …
Recently at dinner, we were talking about what we might do when we go to our cottage in Maine. My wife Susan suggested climbing a certain mountain and the boys started asking questions about it. Susan told the boys that we had been there before and pulled out a family photo book to show them …
The digital age has created a quandary for people. The technology that lets us capture and share our memories keeps changing. What was the latest, greatest storage today is gone and forgotten tomorrow. Do you remember floppy disks? DVDs may be next! This all gives us pause to think how to move our memories forward. …
There is an old joke: How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. There are more photos taken in two minutes today, than in the whole of the 19th century when photography was invented! That’s a lot of photos! For many people their photos are the elephant in the room, or should …
From overwhelmed to organized – eating the elephant one bite at a time! Read More »
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