Ah, another week gone by with no posts… and this post has been in draft since Sunday. I must remember to blog!

This weekend, I decided to tackle a project for my mother. I decided to secretly nick the photo albums that my parents have and digitize (scan) the photos so my mom can have them in her iPhoto rather than in an album that she’ll never see.

While scanning the almost 500 photos that I could get my hands on, I realized just how much digital photography has changed the way we take photos. Back in the day, the number of shots per roll of film was significantly less than what you can fit on a memory card/stick today and you could not easily tell if the picture you shot was crap or not. I was amazed at how many blurry pictures were there in the photo album next to the great shots. I realized you had no way to know it was blurry until after you paid for processing… so you kept them!

Also I noticed that pictures weren’t take just every day. It did truly seem as if it was always a birthday, Christmas, Communion or Confirmation going on. There were very few oh look how cute…SNAP pictures, something I have hundreds of. I was also amazed by the relatively low quantity of pictures, there are apparently two albums I missed but still if we go with even 750 pictures of our whole childhoods, I have 750 digital snaps of my nephew already. Heck I have that many pictures of my cat!

It is amazing to me what digital photography has done to make picture taking so much better and rewarding but I will admit, there is something to be said for holding a Polaroid with your mother’s handwriting on the front…