I knew it was going to happen. I knew that as soon as we got a digital camera, we would stop getting prints. And it has come to pass.
The last time I put prints in an album was a year and a half ago. And that was a whole year’s worth of prints that I finally got around to uploading.
This is a problem because I love looking at photo albums. The kind of album you can actually sit on a couch and hold in your lap — not the kind filling up all the space on my laptop hard drive. My kids love looking at albums too. They spend hours pouring over photo albums looking at how cute they were as babies and how much their friends have changed. To look at photos on the computer would just mean more screen time for them — something I’m trying to cut back on.
I declared in January that getting the photos printed was going to be my project of the month — but it never happened. And now there are thousands of photos that will take hours to upload. Every day that I put off the project, the more cumbersome it becomes.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my digital camera. I would never go back to film. But I hate that all those photos are in my computer — waiting for it to crash so they will be lost forever.





