Scrap Happy: Share an Electronic File of Photographs (File Under Remember Love)

Each Monday, I discuss my Scrap Happy project based on Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.
Besides emailing and mailing photographs of my daughter to various family members, I can create a larger electronic file of photographs.
My mom doesn’t take photographs anymore. Well, she does, just not nearly as much as me. I have become the family photographer. Everyone in my family wants the photos I have taken. The problem is that I take a huge volume of photos. Take my sister’s visit last summer over my daughter’s birthday for example. There were around 500 photographs just from my camera (now my sister used my camera and took what appeared to be minute by minute photographs of my daughter’s birthday party, which I am thankful for though I was surprised at the sheer number of photographs when I went uploaded the images). No one wants to print all these images out and there is no need to print out every single photograph. If you do that, you might as well be using film. I also edit all of my photographs before printing. I mostly do just basic editing like cropping. I decided to burn all of my edited photographs to a disc for my mom. This way she does not have to weed through all the photographs to look for the really good ones or edit them herself. I’ve already done that work. She still will only print out a fraction of the photographs that I have edited, but this will save her a great deal of time once she does decide to print her photographs. Easy.
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Stephanie