Evantide Photography

I want to start by saying this isn’t a plea to hire us or any other photographer.  Both as a professional and a friend consider these three things -

1.  Take photos or get photos taken.  Life happens (good and bad) and it’s great to have documentation of it for yourself and for future generations.

2.  Create some redundancy in your digital files.  What’s this mean?  Put the files in more than one place.  On your computer is great, but maybe buy an external hard drive (prices are dropping like crazy at places like Costco and online).  If you want to be really safe, maybe even keep some in a location away from your home (offsite).

3.  Print some photos from time to time.  Computers are going to crash, hard drives are going to fail and discs are going to have issues sooner or later.  Not only are prints nice to hold onto, touch and look at; they are also just one more way to have access to these memories and times in your life.

To be honest, this is something that I do well for our clients but I can do a lot better at for our family.  In 2011, I made a specific effort to shoot, back up and even print some our families photos.  Grant is a really amazing kiddo and we are absolutely loving this time with him (and I want that documented:-).  When he’s 13 and loving to push back?  Well maybe he’ll be perfect, but… nah, he’ll push back.  It’ll be fun to look back on this time.  It will also be fun when he is 50 to show him what things were like when he was a kid:-).

Part of what started this reflection was hearing that my Grandma is going to be placed in the care of Hospice in the coming days.  Grant may not have known his Great Grandma Ilene but we have images of what was a symbolic meeting they had when he was an infant.  Here is an excerpt from a blog post I did about their meeting:-).

Alright, so get out there and Shoot, Save, Print… Repeat!