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Family photos: how do you look at them?

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wanderings · 08/01/2019 10:40

There are so many ways to store and display photos these days: on the computer, digital frames, Facebook, on the TV, printed photobooks, and of course the traditional method of putting them in albums. Because we can take so many photos nowadays at almost no cost, it can happen that many of them are taken and never seen again: in the days of film you had to choose your moments carefully, and you wouldn't see the result immediately (unless you had a Polaroid camera).

What's your preferred method for looking at family photos, or showing them to people?

With my DH and I, many photos go on Facebook (easy way to group them by dates and events), and at the end of the year, we put the best ones together and order a printed photobook; sometimes special occasions will have their own photobook.

My parents used traditional albums, and (rightly so) they won't hear of doing it any other way; indeed, these albums going right through our childhoods (and indeed adulthood) are a treasured family possession. My grandmother was also a keen photographer, but she rarely had photos printed on paper: all of them went on slides (not many children now would know what a slide is!). This meant it was more of a business looking at them, although she did have a desktop slide viewer that didn't need a screen. The projector and screen took time to set up, so they would only come out for grand showings!

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recently · 08/01/2019 10:44

I make and print out a family album every January for the previous year. I much prefer looking at photos in an album than on screen.

knittedjest · 08/01/2019 11:06

My children are aged between 12 and 33 so for the most part they are printed photos in albums of photo boxes.

I choose to continue printing out photos for my younger children because my older children enjoy cracking out the albums and boxes once every now and then after a family dinner and reminiscing and I wanted them to be included in that because staring at pictures on a computer screen just doesn't have the same feeling to it. Though I do have a lot archieved there as well.

SpoonBlender · 08/01/2019 11:17

Just screen here for us. Dealing with mums six cubic feet of photo albums has left me not wanting any more ever.

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