Last night I had a few hours of "Just me" time. The boys went to a UNLV football game, yep they lost AGAIN!
So I began to think, remember when snap shots were just that - snap shots! What do I do with those - I do not want to put them in a box and forget about them. Not much meaning behind the photo except to capture the moment and feeling at the time. Now my photos must have a purpose - not only do they have to capture the moment, feeling, time - I have to be able to use them for a layout. I now look at the colors, the lighting, the background. The one thing I have noticed is that - those photos were taken for a reason and they cannot be abandoned. During my "quiet time," I began going through the photos and putting them in a 4 x 6 flip album, cropping them, putting patterned paper behind them and a few rub-ons to describe how I feel about the photos now. I am over half done with the flip album - it holds 50 photos so it will take some time to finish, but it has given them a new light.
Here are a few LO's I have done recently - enjoy.
1 comment:
You've reminded me that I have to go through some of our older shoeboxes of photos. Those memories are precious, and they deserve to be preserved in something more usable than a dusty old box.
Thank you for the inspiration!
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