Storybooks Of Your Life
June 23, 2009
What defines album photos from every other kind depends on the person and the available photos. Most people end up dividing their photos the same way. They pull out the best and display them in some way; a frame, a canvas, or even just the fridge. The rest usually end up divided by quality between albums and photo storage.
I used to shop for photo albums more often than I did for clothes. For a girl in her twenties that says a lot. The available variety is what always gets me. It seems like everyplace has a whole different set to choose from and when you add in the internet the possibilities are endless. Personally, I try to match the photos or the event I’d photographed with the album.
Thick black leather albums hold my black and whites while colorful albums scattered with hearts would be the residence of images of my husband and I dating. There are half a dozen embroidered white albums on my shelves that are bursting with wedding pictures and after my son was born the albums got even more fun.
I try to have the photos in my albums tell a story. I keep them in chronological order whenever possible and let them speak for themselves. While I weed out pictures that are blurry or otherwise poorly shot, I know plenty of people that don’t bother. There is no right or wrong way to choose album photos, just what means the most to you. Photo albums are the storybooks of your life, and you needn’t actually write a word.
With the variety available today, you have no limits. The choices are endless. There is no reason for the precious moments in your life, the ones you captured and immortalized in photos to live their life in a box or a file. It is the perfect time to judge a book by its cover. Browse around, find the ones that define you and fill them with the pictures that illustrate your life.
How to photograph baby and mother
Christy
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