Real photos
By bonnie
@bunnybon7 (50973)
Holiday, Florida
June 25, 2009 2:13pm CST
it makes me sad that i no longer have many real photos. im talking paper ones. not digital. i wonder how many people will be able in future generations to look and see just what we looked like? their real relatives. many years ago, i had pics of my great grandparents, of my mom when she was little, etc. i had them in storage and someone that broke into it must have thought the suitcase they were in had something of value and was in a hurry. sad thing is it wasnt valuable to them but so valuable to myself that i spent several months in greif over them. i know silly
and many people thought someone had died
i've always been the photo nut in my family inherited from grandma. luckily my youngest daughter was the same and return many photos she'd clipped from me over the years. first time i was glad she had
anyway, anyone else feel like their photos are this important? i mean paper ones.do you also feel the loss of paper photos as being a sad thing? im going to buy me another camera soon i think. one that takes real pics.
and many people thought someone had died i've always been the photo nut in my family inherited from grandma. luckily my youngest daughter was the same and return many photos she'd clipped from me over the years. first time i was glad she hadanyway, anyone else feel like their photos are this important? i mean paper ones.do you also feel the loss of paper photos as being a sad thing? im going to buy me another camera soon i think. one that takes real pics.9 people like this
21 responses
@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
25 Jun 09
With whatever photos you can re-gather from your daughter or other family memberw, you might want to consider putting them on CD's. I have some old home movies from the 50's that by brother and I had put onto VHS tapes. Now I'm planning on putting them on DVD's and making copies for the rest of the family. My mother was the photo keeper in the family, as older relatives passed on, she was able to get her hands on many of the photos. When she passed four years ago, I was given several large boxes of photos. They're fun to look at, but since no one ever wrote names on the backs, I have no idea who most of the people are. They might be relatives, friends of relatives...I just have no idea and anyone who would know is gone.
You might have a hard time getting a camera that takes real pictures. A lot of manufacturers are starting to phase out film.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
27 Jun 09
i miss having paper photos since i switched over to digital cameras but a lot of stores will print out your digital pictures just like regular film so every once in awhile i will get a few made like that so i can have some for photo albums or to hang on the wall
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
28 Jun 09
yeah walgreens is great! dont bother with walmart.. the quality is horrible.. at walgreens you can also upload the pics to their website and pay for them to be developed at any walgreens in the usa.. so if your relative is in another state have it done at a walgreens near them so they can pick them up and get them
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
28 Jun 09
i've been told walgreens does it but keep forgetting to take them up there. some people in the family dont have pc's and i'd like them to see my new granddaughter.
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@constaanta (571)
• Germany
26 Jun 09
When I was young I took paper pictures and slides. But after almost 35 years of storing them the colors have changed and effects, which I implemented with my camera's time of exposure and aperture in many cases are gone. I am so happy about digital photography and the options given by programs like GIMP to improve even bad and dark photos. Since digital photos are just a bunch of pixels I have the hope, that my grand-grand-children will get the same impression from my today photos as I have when opening the photo files.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Jun 09
well thats fine if they dont get lost in cyber space or on a broken pc.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
2 Jul 09
You can get "real photos" from digital cameras. There are many ways to get photographs from digital cameras. You can download them to your computer and transfer them to CD or DVD then make an album and watch it on the computer or on DVD. You can store them on your computer and set it up so that all your pictures are your screen saver. You can transfer your photos to a memory stick and take this to the camera shop and print them up on real paper. You can even print photos at home if you have the right paper and ink.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
2 Jul 09
well i know dear, but my problem is my silly digital camera halph the time dont want to work right. used to be you could buy a camera that would work for years. now i cant afford several hundreds of dollars every few months just to have a working camera. i've already sent it to get fixed once and now its acting up again. anyway, i do have all my pics i've gotten on the pc loaded into my screensaver. it shows all my pics like a video.love that part.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
2 Jul 09
I have also hobby to collect photos of my ancestors,family members,relatives and the places I visited. I lost many photos. I'm also grieved for this loss.I visited Malaysia and Singapore.I took shot many pictures of these two places by my digital camera.But by mistake I push my finger on delete bottom.All the pictures vanished.It's so painful for me.Now I transfer the photos to my computer and save those. I share your grief.Be happy.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
2 Jul 09
oh that is so sad. see you can also loose digital pics.
@candy2306 (576)
• India
26 Jun 09
hi bunnybon7, yes, i cherish all the photos i have. i'm keeping ones taken from 1902 onwards. my grandmother gave me to keep it as she knows i love to collect them. after my grandmother passed away, those photos became even more valuable to me! i really understand how you feel. the devastation that you went through. my god, loosing such valuables is really hurting!
good that you got off the grief and i hope your other old photos get scanned and stored in hard-disk. it's much safer to keep a copy!
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Jun 09
yes i have no scanner so have asked my cousin to do it as a birthday gift.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
29 Jun 09
I actually learned how to develop black and white film and prints over thirty years ago...I miss the days of printing my own photos due to expense, also, the quality type paper Kodak used to have were discontinued some fifteen years ago....these were beautiful types of printing papers with slight warm cream tones, to natural sepia to make them look like the old fashioned ones. The printing papers for printers for computers well, suck as far as I'm concerned...LOL
I'm lucky in that I do still have many photos of family members...I even have glass plate photos of my great-great grandparents and taken around the Civil War days!
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
29 Jun 09
wow. thats wonderful pye yes the pc paper sucks. your sure lucky.
yes the pc paper sucks. your sure lucky.
@gr8life (6251)
• Malaysia
26 Jun 09
Hello bunnybon7,
I don't have many photos in my albums right now. Most of them are digital ones. One time, my husband accidentally deleted all the digital photos and I was heartbroken. I lost some of my son's photos which I took when he was born and also some of my husband's old photos when he was in his early 20's. I didn't talk to him for a few days and definitely I blamed him for that!
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Jun 09
yes thats what i worry about if they are only on the pc.
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@zxtzxt (214)
• Philippines
26 Jun 09
We only print the ones we really like. Digital Camera makes it cheap to take snap shots after snap shots. For every 100 photos I've taken maybe we print about 1 or 2.
Most of my photos are on myhard drive and back up on a DVD.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Jun 09
yes thats a good idea to have them on dvd. i've asked my cousin to share some of his on dvd for my birthday. as i cant do it myself.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
26 Jun 09
My sister-in-law actually takes her camera in to a camera shop and has prints done, puts them in an album and then deletes them. All mine (from about 2003 forward) are digital, but I did a discussion more or less on this topic a while back. In addition to keeping backups, I am eventually thinking of printing off at least the very best ones and, yep, sticking them in albums. lol
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
27 Jun 09
oh thats wonderful. i should really start doing that
@tamarafireheart (15384)
•
25 Jun 09
Hi bunnybon7,
I am so sorry that you lost a lot of photoghars, I know what its feel like though I only lost one picture of my mother when she was young, I have loads of photos I have taken years ago and also have few b/w phots as well, I have only just in the last few months learnt to use a digtial camera to load pictures on my computer. I am glad your daughter took some from you and now she can make copies for you to keep, bless her. Hugs.
Tamara
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Jun 09
yes i guess i had so many i took as she grew up that i didnt even notice some missing plus, when she was grown i often had doubles developed so she could have them.
plus, when she was grown i often had doubles developed so she could have them.
@maikarumike (458)
• Malaysia
26 Jun 09
Pictures sure make a part of life more complete since we have a chronology of static film.I tried my best to capture each and every interesting moment daily.These moments in life will be a great memory to me when I am much older and i can reflect on it next time and remember the good old days.i would keep a backup file instead of a copy and a developed into a frame one.this will ensure that i will always have my photos no matter what.
@yexianxiao3 (16)
• China
26 Jun 09
most people don't print the digital pic out now. i also keep them in the camera or in my computer, but it is really nice to see the paper pics which has a long history. old but very cherish.
@megumiart (3771)
• United States
25 Jun 09
I like old fashioned, developed photos. Digital cameras are convinient, to only save the pictures that turn out well, but I still miss the "mystery" of getting your photos back from a developer and seeing how they turn out. xD
@glords (2614)
• United States
25 Jun 09
It is sad that a lot of digital photos go undeveloped now days. I guess if we developed them all we would be overrun with photos. My father passed away a couple years ago and and my moms new husband wants to get my dads stuff out of the house. My dad had boxes of old photos. A lot of them with people I don't know. I wish there was some way to track down the people in the photos, if they are still alive. I bet they would love to see them again, and to know that my dad remembered them and kept them close.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Jun 09
yes i know what you mean. my aunts live far away now and i cant ask them who is in some photos of moms i got. they are the ones that gave me a lot of grandmas when she passed. they told me who was in them then at least. guess i should just send them to one of them that might know.
@connierebel (1557)
• United States
25 Jun 09
If you want to preserve your digital photos you can get prints made at stores like Walmart or online places. They really don't cost that much, and it wouldn't be any more than paying for development of film.
@jugsjugs (12967)
•
25 Jun 09
I feel the same way as you todo with real paper photos as think it is like you say a real sham that in years to come there will be less photos as everything now adays has gone digital.Everything is done on a computer and that is where most of the photos usually stay as well as alot of peoples photos usually stay and then if the computer gets broke they tend to have lost them all.Happy Mylotting.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Jun 09
oh yes. my daughter already lost a lot of them during a divorce. he kept the pc and wouldnt let her get the pics off it
@jayrene (2708)
• Philippines
25 Jun 09
guess you can call me a photo nut too. i have many photo albums here, i use digital cam now but i always have them printed, i love looking at them in the photo album. i had once an album, pics of me when i was little but it got lost... 
. my kids dont even know how i looked like when i was a kid too. that was really a sad thing that happened to me.
now i have photos of my family, and i have them on print too not just stored on line or saved in disc.
. my kids dont even know how i looked like when i was a kid too. that was really a sad thing that happened to me.
now i have photos of my family, and i have them on print too not just stored on line or saved in disc.@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Jun 09
so, you know the heartbreak of loosing pictures that can never be replaced.
@lulu1220 (1006)
• United States
25 Jun 09
I have lots of old photos and have been trying to scan them onto my computer so I have a digital one too. Some of the old photos were damaged and had scratches on them. I was able to correct most of them with my photo software. But I still have the paper photos and I store them in an archival box.
I take lots of digital pictures and only print out the best ones. The rest I have either on my computer or online.
So I am very much into the technology of today by having a digital camera, using photo software, having online albums, etc. But I also like to read about the history of photograhy. I like looking at actual old photos. I sometimes see old cameras in antique stores and am fascinated by them. I am also interested in tin type photos fro the 1800's.
I think photos are very important. They are basically the visual story of your life.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
26 Jun 09
yes, i even have some they didnt get that i bought at a yard sale for because they were from the 1800's. not even my family, and wish i could find out who they belong to1 person likes this
