Your life, your family, your friends and your memories – who besides you knows what you know about you. If you don’t get those photos out of where they are hidden and into a safe, organized, sharable format, then everything you know about what’s special in your life will be lost for the next generation and can never be recaptured. There are a wide variety of solutions, from a traditional scrapbook to a permanent online album, so don’t let them slip away, because I can do it for you or help you get it done.
Where Are Your Photos & Memorabilia?
In a shoebox? That’s the way many people would answer. They have photographs, memorabilia, videos, slides or other kinds of media from their past or handed down to them from other family members. If they aren’t using a shoe box, it might be a carton, a bin, a crate, a drawer, Ziplock bags, garbage bags – the list is endless. And the list is scary, because every one of those memories could be wiped away in an instant.
Fires, floods, tornados, earthquakes are a fact of life. No one thinks it is going to happen to them. As soon as the dust settles and they know the fate of the people and pets in their lives, their minds turn to their precious memorabilia, but too often it’s gone, without a trace. Yet, the idea of opening these containers and preserving these images before disaster strikes is daunting. It’s daunting because they aren’t sure what they will find and have no clue where to start. Or perhaps they know exactly what is there and while they’d love to engage with it, the technology used isn’t even available today. Some know exactly what’s there, but it’s too emotional to deal with.
For even more people, the answer would be ‘the images are on my phone’, and that’s even scarier. It doesn’t take a major disaster for these memories to disappear, because everyday phones are lost and stolen or they just die. People are devastated by their loss, but when that day comes it is too late.
Some people have their images on their computer, in thumb drives, on portable hard drives or other digital media. That’s good, to a point, but what happens when that technology goes the way of VHS tapes and slides? What if the files are corrupted or your computer dies? What if something happens to you? Will anyone else know where your photos are and if they do, will they know anything about the people and places in your photos?
Other answers are possible. Perhaps all your photos are in archival scrapbooks, on the cloud, stored in an app. Wherever your photos are, ask yourself these questions:
Are my images safe? Are they organized in such a way that others could make sense of them? Can I easily share my images with other people? Are my photos being data mined? Can they be sold by whoever is storing them for advertising?
Where Do You Want Them to Be?
There are many answers to this question and in truth, you can answer it several different ways. Perhaps you’d enjoy a traditional or digital scrapbook for your coffee table, but you’d also like the photos backed up securely and safely online. Perhaps you’d like to share them in personalized photo gifts or stationary. You want them perfectly organized with no data mining or advertising use. It would be nice if you could pass them onto other people and future generations, always being updated for whatever technological changes occur. You’re just not sure how to get there.
I’d like to help you figure out how to get your images organized, preserved and in a shareable format. There are many reasons I am the right person to help you with this project.
I’ve been scrapbooking for decades. My husband and I ran a real estate photography/videography/drone company for several years. I’ve been the WebMaster and Marketing guru for a wedding videographer. Taking, editing, delivering and storing images has been a daily activity over a number of years. I represent both a premiere scrapbooking company, Creative Memories and Forever, a one-stop solution for all things digital.
YOUR MEMORIES ARE MY MEDIA! CONTACT ME TODAY!
972-971-5263 or janesadek@gmail.com
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