Are family photo albums a thing of the past?

C50

C50

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With everyone these days using their phones for picture taking I feel family photo albums and that record of history will be lost. Think about it, when the next couple of generations pass how do you access and save all the photos off their devices? Even if you know the passwords who wants to go thru years worth of random photos? Or do you just pass down grandma's old cell phone generation to generation? Or an album of SIM cards.lol I don't know anyone who is still saving physical photos.

Same with home movies, when was the last time you saw someone using a video camera that wasn't a phone?

Sure there may be some special events where pictures are printed, such as weddings, but for the most part I think physical prints are history.

Do you print pictures? Or even save them to a disc? Do your kids or grandkids print or save them?
 

We have never put any photos online. We have a shoebox with hard copy pictures, and not very many of them. I went through them a few years ago and threw out duplicates, mystery landscapes, pictures of people we barely knew, and any pictures that made me sad.
 
Yes, I think photo albums are going out of style. Years ago I took digital photos of most of the pictures in my photo album. Now, I have a very hard time remembering where I saved. I have to "run" into them when messing around. Oh well, nothing lasts forever. :)
 
They are, but I wish they were not! Trouble is, it is a lot of work to print and organize the photos. I put about 100 or so photos on an electronic photo frame that plays non stop in our living room with photos of all our family from childhood to adult. Maybe this winter I will do the same on a larger scale with a single non-digital album in January, when we get snowed in. Otherwise we have a large pile of albums to look through along with many many digital format photos.
 
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I keep my photos on my computer and a thumb drive. When I move them to my computer from my phone I do print the special ones and put them in an albumn. My children and grandchildren do not seem to save hard copy photos.
 
Another nice thing about physical photos is the little notes written on the back. "Uncle Frank, 1962", or "Scotch, first dog,1954".

Sadly I'm guilty myself of not printing photos or saving them to a shared media. When my kids were young I took loads of pictures and videos, then we got our first cell phones about the time the kids moved into their teen years and that changed everything, no more printed pictures. Also I never backed up my cell phones back in the early days, so when the phone broke or died the pictures were simply lost.
 
C50 said:
Another nice thing about physical photos is the little notes written on the back. "Uncle Frank, 1962", or "Scotch, first dog,1954".

Sadly I'm guilty myself of not printing photos or saving them to a shared media. When my kids were young I took loads of pictures and videos, then we got our first cell phones about the time the kids moved into their teen years and that changed everything, no more printed pictures. Also I never backed up my cell phones back in the early days, so when the phone broke or died the pictures were simply lost.
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Funny you should mention this. I have all my photos in the cloud over 34,000 photos.. reduced from 70,000...I spent most of last month deleting photos from every electronic device I have, but still have 34,000 remaining.

I haven't printed any photos to frame for several years, but just today I was chatting to a woman who was printing hers from her phone in Tesco... and she said she does it all the time, so much so she could have a degree in teaching how to do it... but it made me think that I need to go and print more photos.. ..altho' I wish I could get them done much bigger than is available at the self printing machine at the store
 
Yeah, even with a digital camera, let alone a phone, you can end up with a large mountain of stuff that needs to be winnowed. Too many repeats, duds, bad angles, don't cares, etc.
 
I have 2 small albums in the living room. They don't take up much space and they are nice to share. The pictures are mostly from our travels. There is one of me sitting under a tree in Mazatlan Mexico getting a haircut. Another is my wife on a camel in Morocco. There is a picture of the sign in a railroad station for the town of Wacca Wacca. There are also shots of the apes that run loose in Gibraltar.
 

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