September 26 - Save Your Photos Day

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Posted on September 26, 2020

(Last Saturday of September)

One thing I have been thinking about this month is organizing and saving my photos. I have been considering printing some and making scrapbooks, OR creating special Shutterfly books, OR maybe even signing up for an automated book-creation app like Chatbook.

And this whole time, I didn’t even realize that September is Save Your Photos Month!

At the official website, there are short classes on offer to help us organize, back up, display, and share our photos. Photo printing is a complex topic, because the chemistry of the paper and developing chemicals used will affect the photo: Will it fade? Will it yellow? And of course, printed photos could be torn, burned, lost entirely by any number of accidents or disasters. But photos that are kept in a digital form may be lost, as well – a stolen phone, a hard drive crash, even a change in software! Even photo albums on social media sites need to be backed up – I know someone who lost YEARS of photos when his Facebook and Instagram accounts vanished – and the company couldn’t help him recover his accounts! Yikes!

Another really tricky thing: what to do about old family photos that came to you already faded or worn or …? How can you restore them? Well, maybe the folks at the Save Your Photos Day link can help?

Make time today to learn about saving your photos!!

Photos can be among our most treasured possessions – things that are often difficult or impossible to replace – and if I had time, photos and important documents would be the top two things I’d grab if I had to evacuate my house.

Photo by the amazing photographer Dorthea
Lange (1895 – 1965). She said:
“Photography takes an instant out of time,
altering life by holding it still.”

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