As I sit here sipping my lukewarm latte (how many times do you nuke yours before you get a chance to sit and finish it???) I realize this is our 85th Sweet Shot Tuesday. We’re actually approaching the two-year mark – although I break each October for the 31 Day Photography Series. For those of you who have been here since the beginning – wow! Think of how many images you have.
Have you considered assembling your weekly shots into something tangible? An m3b reader on Facebook mentioned she put 52 images ( a year’s worth! ) in a Blurb Book as a collection of her year’s efforts in photography. ( I wish I could find her comment. If she is you – please come forward!) I am considering this for Project52. But for those among us who think themes are too restrictive, a collection of Sweet Shots would be awesome!
Do you plan to keep all your shots digital, or will you make something tangible with them?
I’m such a proponent of prints and albums. It’s all well and good to have jpgs on your hard drive – but when is the last time you printed images, hung something on your wall, or made an album of your memories?
No matter how much those jpgs mean to you, having something tangible will *always* trump the digital. My 2011 goal was to finally get a canvas gallery wrap in my own home. This sweet thing is 40 inches x 60 inches – that’s 5 feet tall! We also framed and hung individual portraits of each boy in 2011 – those are gorgeous Organic Bloom frames.
This iPhone snapshot makes it hard to tell the proportions until you compare the size of the canvas to the size of the front door.
What will you do with all the images you take in 2012?
Can’t wait to see what you’ve been shooting!
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LOVE the canvas and how you’ve displayed it.
this year i do have a goal to get more printed, framed and up to admire and enjoy:)
happy tuesday! xo
I agree that it’s definitely the next step in processing the photos for walls or books. I think your product on your wall is just lovely. Thank you so much for the time you take to host this link up as well as the new project 52 – I missed the first week but fully intend to participate in the coming week.
I love the pictures you’ve hug, they work really well and look beautiful. I felt the same way a couple of years ago and started hanging some of my better images and have a box where all my faves get printed and stored, I love leafing through them from time to time. Thanks for hosting…and I nuke mine sometimes up to three times…:)
I was an au-pair in Paris many years ago long before digital photography. When the then 3yo boy I was responsible for turned 21 last year, I sent him a photo album book of the pictures I had taken of him and him & I. Iscanned all the printed photo’s before getting it printed and bound in an album. I wrote a post about it here. http://www.outofours.com/2011/03/personalised-gift-idea.html
Next month I am doing a photography course after purchasing my first DSLR in July last year. I’m hoping to use my photo’s of Australia this year to make into calenders to send to friends and family in the UK and South Africa as Christmas gifts.
Robyn
How lovely! And isn’t that iPhone wonderful and easy to use! I love the many features including the digital camera AND the video recorder!
One of my goals is to create Blurb books for my grandkids of photos and encouraging Bible verses. Til then, I share them with the grands on my handy handy iPhone.
I’m not very good about getting pictures printed but did make a photo book from my P52 last year from Mixbook. It came in the mail yesterday and it looks great! I had a groupon and so I just had to pay for shipping. My daughter had fun looking through the pictures last night, seeing things she did last year. I’m really happy with my keepsake.
I love a huge canvas. That’s amazing!
I’m working on organizing my photos into a yearly album. I’ll be better prepared for next year!
Oh, and the themes for P52 intimidated me, so I’m sticking with you here.
I’m so proud of myself for picking up the camera everyday in 2012 so far! A big step for me! So, yes, I plan to print off my efforts. I’m thinking a book of some sort.
I did ‘one photo a week’ last year and am in the process of printing them in a book. I also print one large album every year to have something tangible. I have photos books starting in 2004 and before that I’d create regular photo albums. It’s a nice way to share photos as a family or when guests come over.
I use Kodak online and put together a book whenver I have some sort of event (family trips mostly). I am participating in a year long self-portrait project and I think I will put that in a book when done…I’m NEVER in photos because I’m always taking them, this way at least my descendants will know I had a face
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Kathy
I absolutely LOVE that canvas. I try to make it a point to get prints done at least every couple months of all my favorite shots & I keep them in the standard sleeved albums for now. I would really like to get going on the Project Life because the kids love looking back at the photos & having the descriptions in there would be great. I just got a small canvas done this Christmas & do plan on getting a few more in the coming months. I actually have a print comparison post coming up on Thursday-
I really need to get all my photos printed up. My kids entire lives (ages 5y, 3.5y, 18m) are still sitting on memory cards. :/
Last year I did the P52 project with you on flickr, but somewhere along the way I lost track of getting them up there and got behind. Only behind in putting them up not taking them. I have used blurb before and plan on doing a book of my “52″ (although I’m not the person you mentioned above). Your canvas is gorgeous and you are absolutely right a jpeg is nothing like having it in your hand and sadly I don’t remember the last time I printed them. I think I’m also going to go back to some of my favorite blog posts (my own of course ) and print those too. I had some significant discoveries about life this year with my camera and would like to document those for my children to have later.
That big canvas looks gorgeous and I know I should do that too but they are so expensive here so that is my excuse:)
That is so gorgeous… the colors in the portrait are so great in your home. It really is bigger than it looks! Wow!
Where did you have your canvas made at? Love the large size!
Love the canvas! I have a few in our house too. They’re a great way of displaying photos.
I’m just gonna keep on doing what I have been doing, printing all my fave shots, and sticking them into a photo album. I’m always a bit paranoid something will happen to my hard drive and I would loose all my photos (it has happened before!) This Christmas, however, I made my husband a calendar called ’12 months of Jack’ with 12 of my best shots from 2011.
Oh god that looks gorgeous.
LUV your canvas!!
I used Shutterfly to print the first 45 of my P52 for last year in an 8×8 book…. This past Christmas, when I got a coupon for a Photobin “photowrap cover” 8 3/4 x 11″ 20-page photobook, I ordered it with all 52 of the photos. It hasn’t arrived yet. I have great luck with Shutterfly…Photobin’s process was confusing to me. I’m happy to have “in-hand” records of some of my favorite photos, and I’ll continue to do that.
That’s a shot from the iPhone 4s? Wow very nice. I did read that it had took good quality photos.
Very nice photo composition
I had been making prints up and adding them to an album (after scrapbooking a few years ago) but have largely let this slip after starting my blog. For Christmas I made Shutterfly calendars for several gifts, highlighting about 40 of my favourite photos from 2011.
Right now I am working on a family scrapbook style book through Blurb capturing favourites and memory joggers from all my 2011 photos. I’m sure our children (and myself) will appreciate the effort, although it is taking a while as it’s my first attempt. Instead of being chronologically arranged, I’m working more along a theme base for my pages. I’m thinking of having two or three copies made so both grandmothers can have a copy to keep as well – maybe for Mother’s Day.
One of my goals for this year is to create a gallery wall in my living room of images of my children that I’ve shot.
At the end of each year I make a photo book of my favorite photos from the year. I always use one of the online photo publishing sites like snapfish, shutterfly, mpix. I’ve never used Blurb, but I’ve heard great things about it. The books are a great way to record, display, and share your photography.
Fun! I recently printed some large prints from 2010-2011 that are prominently hanging on our walls. (One canvas and two thin wrap metallic prints.) I also have various travel shots in frames on our walls which was fun as well. I hope to do the same this year.
Love your canvas it came out great. Every year I do a book of the pictures I want to keep. I have and macbook and use their book program. I find this is easier than printing the photos and then making a photo album. I’ve done three books and my family loves them. Thanks for hosting, my first time linking, Laura – Cottage and Broome