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Create a Photo Album
With the prevalence of digital cameras and the fast pace of life,
few people really take the time to create a photo album anymore.
This is really a shame. When you create a photo album, you make
something that not only showcases your photos, but arranges them
in the personal style that shows you really care about what you
are doing. If you make your own photo album, you can not only select
what photos to include, but what kind of book to use, how many per
page, and where in your home to display it.
I first decided to create a photo album about a year ago. Ironically,
I didn't even think to create a photo album until I had been using
my digital camera for a good while. Back when I used to use my normal,
analog camera, I would keep all of my pictures in boxes, and I could
go into them and look at them whenever I wanted. I had always kind
of wanted to create a photo album, but had never gotten around to
it, and over the years I had become pretty good at hunting for just
the image which I wanted in my box of pictures.
It took the digital camera to make me finally create a photo album.
You see, I had a virtual photo album on the computer, one which
would show the images that I had taken, and where I could arrange
them in whatever configuration I wanted. I could even design covers
or text for my digital photo album, which was pretty neat. It was
so convenient, that I rarely bothered to look at my old pictures
any more. I just wasn't up for the effort of digging through them
anymore.
Then one day, I was having over my sons fiance. She's a sweet girl,
and I decided to embarrass him and make her feel part of the family
by showing off some of his baby pictures. But when I looked for
them, try as I might, I couldn't find them at all. I realized then,
that I had to create a photo album, or forever lose track of all
of my precious memories. I simply didn't know where anything was
anymore, so I set off to by a lovely hardbound book to create a
photo album to organize all of my most precious pictures so that
I could show them.
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