Digitizing

It's tempting to take that overflowing box of old prints and mail them off to a digitizing service that promises to scan everything and send it back on a hard drive. It sounds simple enough. Just ship them off, get digital files back, and voila, it's done! But here's what no one tells you: You might get your photos back in digital form, but you'll likely receive a chaotic folder full of generic file names like IMG_001.jpg, SCAN_2389.jpeg, or photo(12).tif. No dates. No names.

Have you ever wished you could bottle up time and keep the magic of childhood forever? Parents make many memories through activities with their kids, especially art at home on rainy days. And, of course, they are creating more memories at school and camp- sharing them with us at Open House tours and when they leave their overstuffed backpacks for us to clean out on Saturday mornings. Our days with our kids are full of finger paints, construction paper, macaroni, and bottles o

It doesn't matter what period of time you are born in; if you're a millennial or a boomer, the fact is that you surely have loads of photo albums around the house with precious memories from your childhood or important events in your life. As great as print photography is, it's undeniable that it has some disadvantages, especially in our modern age when everything revolves around technology and taking pictures is as easy as holding up your phone and pressing a button. Print p