I understand the importance of wanting to capture a memory, a moment in time that is special to you. I also think that with mobile phones the magic of spontaneously capturing an image by chance. The type of moments that where you’re on a trip and bought film. The moment at your kids birthday and blows the candles out. We are now a society of capturing anything and everything. Even the moments that are private or some that are used as a form of bullying. My best memories are the ones where I don’t have a camera or my cell is out of reach. Those are the ones that are ingrained in my soul.
Random Word: Memory
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I often am of two minds about taking photos. I often want to, but just as often feel as if I’m missing the moment because I’m taking photos. And I’ve been surprised how infrequently I actually go back and look at them.
But I think I’m of two minds about a lot of things :-).
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I too rarely go back and look at my photos. But I have a summer project where the photos will be from and center mostly to benefit my kiddos.
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Funny how that can be with photos.
Right now I’m glad I have a bunch of photos taken over the years. It helps when I’m looking for a picture to include with a blog post.
What’s your summer project? Curious; maybe it would help me figure out how to attack my pics!
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I have some old letters and pictures from dating back the 1800’s. My daughters and I are going to put the letters in order and match the authors to their photos.
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Wow. That sounds like an interesting project, and nice to be able to do it with your daughter.
Any chance any of the pics will land in your blog? I’ve got some old pics; thinking differently about them.
Thanks.
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I was hoping to do a story about some of my family’s secrets. Just a lot of my family took a lot of the answers to grave with them. I’m going to have to do some research. I think it will be fun.
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I have a friend who really got into her family history and ended up self-publishing a book of her research and is currently publishing a web-serial-memoir via blog.
Here’s a link to her table of contents. In case she has anything in there that might be useful! Happy ‘splorin’!
http://sevenau.com/2017/02/28/0-i-poem-lineage-table-of-contents/
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Oh, I can’t wait to check this out. Thank you 🙂
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Excellent, I agree. Capture memories with your eyes and your mind first. That way a photograph stimulates the memory rather than just becoming the memory.
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YES!!! 🙂 You put into perfect words.
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