Sometimes the best ideas happen quite by accident
Monday, November 14th, 2011We had a photo shoot done recently and I’ve got to tell you… I am in love with it.
Not from a vanity point of view but just that it is so me.
Of course it does help that everybody who sees the pics says they love them
I’m still deciding which to have printed on canvas.
Part of my process is to print 10 X 15s of the ones I’m thinking of printing BIG just to make sure.
It’s much cheaper to spend R3 a pic to make sure you’re happy with the quality, colour, etc. than to spend R500 on a canvas and it is not exactly what you had in mind.
Last year after looking through pics on my computer I thought I’d have a particular pic printed on canvas. Good thing I had the small prints done because I changed my mind.
Back to this year’s shoot.
I loved so, so many I had 150 printed.
And it has been the best thing ever.
I had an album that takes 100 pics so on Friday night I sat and arranged the best 150 in the album.
Let me tell you… I can’t stop looking through it.
I’ve said before that I think we all (a collective all) don’t print enough pics now that we’re digital.
E.g. When we visited Australia in 2004, we had about 8 rolls of film developed. That’s 288.
Most of those except the obvious duds – I’d say about 250 – are in photo albums.
When we visited Thailand in 2006, we also took hundreds of pics and I have 2 printed. Yes, you read that right – TWO!
And yet I love looking at them.
So I’ve decided on a little project once my Christmas organising is out of the way.
I’m going to haul out those discs and get our travel pics printed and put in albums.
Do you have your photos printed regularly?
How do you display them?
Photos taken by Jeanette Verster (click through to see a few of the others)





















