This is my favorite photo from this past year, I now have it, and many others in print…
Why? Because I’m worried that I won’t have any photos to show my future grandchildren and great children. In our world of ever-changing technology, I have noticed that over the years, I have less and less pictures in print and it scares me. I love looking through old nostalgist photographs of my family over the years. I love the beautiful old black and whites of my great grandparents to the colorful pictures of my childhood. I have boxes of photo albums from my son as a baby until about the age he turned 15. That is about time I got my first I-phone and then…. nothing. All the photos are on my phone. I know that there are ways to save the digital photos such as back up drive, I clouds etc., but when it comes down to it, I can envision my future self-grabbing a photo album from a shelf to share, much more than I can see myself firing up my computer to show future loved one’s pictures when they ask to see them. This all really made me step back and think, so I went online and created a few photo albums through Shutterfly. It was actually very easy, and it allowed me to upload photos from both my phone and my computer. I created two albums, one for 2020 and one for 2021. Those two years were the only ones on my newest phone and newer laptop (hence the fear of not having photos) I am going to have to dig a little deeper and go back a few more years, but I am bound and determined to do just that. I also made a promise to myself to preserve the past in print. Every January I will sit down and create an album from the previous year so I will always have my memories to share.
photo by Ericha Johanning