Print vs. Digital: 3 Reasons Why Prints Are Important For Your Family To Have
With the way things are right now, it should be no surprise to you how important it is to take pictures of your family throughout all of this.
These pictures will be cherished and reminisced upon for the rest of your life— but not if they’re stuck in your iPhone!
Think about it… how often do you take the time to browse through all the photos in your camera roll? Maybe once or twice a year? Or perhaps only when you’re trying to find that one photo from a few years back.
If you’re anything like us, then you probably don’t make that journey often enough.
Digital photos are convenient, we’ll give you that. But you just won’t get the same use out of the photos stuck in your iPhone as the ones that are hung proudly on your wall.
HERE ARE THREE REASONS WHY PRINTS ARE SO IMPORTANT FOR YOUR FAMILY TO HAVE: #PrintVsDigital
1. PRINTS HAVE LONGEVITY AND A PHYSICAL PRESENCE THAT DIGITAL JUST CAN’T BEAT
Picture this…
Dinner with the family runs a little long one night because you get into a really deep discussion about your favorite Tiger King moments (and whether or not Carole Baskin really did it). In the midst of the discussion, you can’t help but sit back and really appreciate and cherish this moment. So, without hesitation, you pull out your phone and capture a perfectly encompassing shot of your family truly in their element. You put your phone away and continue the discussion.
You’ll either (a) probably never see this photo again, or (b) have it printed, display it in your home, and be reminded of the priceless moments you had with your loved ones during a rather difficult time.
When most of us take a picture with our iPhone, the photo typically ends up forgotten almost as soon as it’s been taken. It’s not until years later, when the memory is hardly present, that we stumble upon it once more. And to add to the inconvenience, hard drives don’t last forever, the Cloud doesn’t always backup your photos, and your phone may become lost or stolen one day. What then?
Here’s a trick:
From now on when you snap a print-worthy photo of your kids playing in the backyard, immediately save it to a separate folder in the Photos app in your iPhone.
Every few months, go into this folder and have these photos printed— either on a canvas or normal 4x6 prints.
Display the prints around your home or in a photo book for yourself and your friends and family to enjoy and reflect upon.
Don’t be afraid to jot down a few notes about each photo for your future self to discover!
2. PRINTS TURN YOUR HOME INTO AN ART MUSEUM OF YOUR LIFE
Unlike digital photos, prints have the ability to be displayed and shown off in your home.
That stunning soccer photo of your kid? It goes in the hallway. The incredible family photo taken by the quirky stranger on vacation? It’s in the hallway. That semi-embarrassing, but incredibly cute selfie you and your partner took last year? Front hall, right near the door.
You’re literally turning your home into an interactive art museum of your life… how cool is that?!
The convenience of digital photos is wonderful, but digital photos just can’t beat the feeling of holding a print in your hand and seeing your adventure come to life on the walls of your home. The photos you take are one-of-a-kind, making them the most priceless piece of art you could ever own. And it doesn’t stop there…
3. PRINTS TELL YOUR STORY IN A WAY NOTHING ELSE CAN
The photos that line the walls in your home will do a lot of talking.
Friends, family, and even your kids, will see these photos and understand exactly what it means to be a [insert your last name here]. They’ll see what you’ve been through, what memories you cherish most, and what’s most important to you.
And you’ll see these photos too. They’ll remind you of how important your family is, or the way you felt the first time you saw your child. They’ll remind you of the lessons you learned from the hardships you faced and of the moment where everything else disappeared and it was just you and those that matter most to you.
Here’s another thought: remember when your parents and grandparents would whip out the old family photos and tell you all kinds of magical stories about their childhood adventures? As a kid, this was an exciting experience. But for the storytellers, it was a feeling like no other. They got to relive some of their greatest experiences again!
So, we must ask, what stories will you tell your grandchildren?
Prints do the job in a way nothing else can. They live with us in the physical world, reminding us of all the feelings and emotions we felt at the time the photo was taken. They show off our family and perfectly illustrate what makes us so unique. They even go so far as to tell our story for us.
Beat that, digital photos.
At the end of it all, there’s only one thing we could ask of you… please don’t risk losing all of your kids memories on an outdated computer or hard drive. Let us help you make these memories last a lifetime.
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