photo albums

Now that the world has become digital, I find that I don't print pictures very often anymore. I can't remember when I last purchased a photo album, and that makes me sad. I am excited because I put in an order a couple of days ago for prints of the kids I shot recently. I can't wait to hold them and look at them. I really need to print more of my pictures, part of the thing I love is actually looking at them close up, without the glow of the monitor. It's a lot like books. I can't imagine reading a whole book on-line. My daughter is doing that right now. How can you take a computer in the bathtub with you, or fall asleep with it on your chest in bed? I don't get it. It just doesn't seem right. This morning, I got up early... (nothing new there) and snuck down to the basement to look for pictures taken at the canyonire in 1977. I went thru the 36 photo albums I have stored and forgotten and I realized that for a short while in the mid 70s I didn't print a lot of pictures. I lived in the canyonaire for about a year, but in that time I only printed 2 pictures of that apartment complex. I am pretty sure I took more pictures, as I have always had a camera in my hand, but I think I was too poor to print them back then. It wouldn't surprise me at all if I had a few rolls of instamatic film in box somewhere still to be printed. As I looked thru the albums I was reminded of so many sweet times with my family as my children were growing up, and with my wonderful husband before the kids came along. There are memories of lifelong friends, and people that came into my life for a season and moved on. It gave me a lovely feeling seeing the pictures of all those people who meant something to me. That is why I love photography. That is why I am trying to capture images that communicate something more about people than just their appearance.
I am headed out today with great friends for some fun, and I am determined to capture them so that 30 yrs from now, I can look back and remember the day!