Why should choose archival prints over digital images?

In this age of social media, WIFI, and cell phones we think that receiving images of our family or kids on a CD or USB will be easier than having to choose our favorites for printing. We say we will look at them when we get home and then choose the ones we want printed, and print those few. The images are easy to upload to social media, or email to out of town relatives and so on. I am guilty also. I have CDs in a shoe box as with images on them from years ago that I never had printed. I brought them home maybe loaded them on to the laptop, went through them, and said I will pick out a few to print later on when I have more time to really look at them. Then I put the CD in the desk drawer fully intending to come back the next weekend and look through them, but then I got busy and it slipped my mind. A year later, I am moving to another house and I find the CD. Only to promise myself once again I will look at the images as soon as I unpack that box. Well, I didn’t. It slipped my mind….again.

This happens to a lot of families. While fully intending to come back later and print the images, we get busy and it slips our minds. Then the CD gets misplaced or accidentally damaged and guess what? We no longer have those images that preserve some milestone in our family, be it engagement portraits, maternity portraits, newborn portraits or the kids pictures with Santa.

Ten, fifteen, even twenty years from our babies are grown ups and and starting

families of their own. Maybe they think it would be awesome to have a picture of themselves and their spouse as babies to hang in their nursery. Well, we don’t have a baby portrait of our child as a baby because we never had one printed by the photographer, we thought it would be easier to just have a CD or USB and permission to print. So we tell our child, ok I will see if I can find you a picture. Then we search, high and low, attic, garage, basement and we finally found that twenty year old CD stashed in a dusty worn shoebox in the top of our closet. We get it out, try to load it on our computer only to realize that todays technology doesn’t support the technology of when we had the image CD or USB made. Now we have no image to share with our now grown up child, no image to look at and compare to his or her baby when it arrives.

All of our family milestones, while captured and saved on a CD were not archived and they are all lost.

Oh no how sad that would be. I am here to tell you that there is a better way.

There is a way to save your memories, for generations to come. My heirloom fine art portraits are guaranteed to last 100 years under normal display conditions. The art (your images) come from a professional lab that guarantees their work. Picture showing your grandchildren a album made from portraits of their parent, your child when they were babies. Imagine your great, great, great grandchildren looking at your family portraits years from now.

Portrait images tell a story, I would love to help you and your family preserve the stories of your engagements, weddings, newborns, children, high school seniors or any other stories you want to pass down to your future decedents.

Contact me to find out how to preserve your story.