Here's a photo of Amil, Umar and Musa I took just over a year ago, when I decked out the boys in matching grey tops. No, that wasn't coincidental, it was planned! Don't they look gorgeous??? Sadly, this photo has sat deep in the dark corner of my computer file only to be resurrected today to share with you. Over a year has passed and Musa now is about double the size he was in this photo, bears almost no resemblance to this photo, though just as cute.
I am terrible at organizing my digital photos, great at taking them, but terribly bad at putting them into any order at all. Only just recently after reading an article about this couple who lost EVERY photo of their toddler because their CD stuffed up, photos from birth up to about 2 years old, did it hit me that it could happen to me too!
Umar is lucky enough to have his photos taken with the older generation film camera and subsequent forced developing of photos only because we could not just keep pushing the buttons to make space for newer shots; but Musa's pretty much had ALL his photos taken with the newer generation digital camera. And there are still ALOT of his and also Umar's photos still to be printed. However, Amil and I do our "risk management" by saving onto multiple CDs, laptops, desktop and keeping our"favourites" on the cameras itself. But not until we print the photos will we be really relieved that our lifetime keepsakes and memories are properly preserved.
A colleague of mine, Rockson (yes, that's his real name), proudly showed me hundreds of photos of his first child, a doll of a baby girl. And when I shared with him the above story, he did panic at first, saying that every photo he has is on his one and only laptop but still he felt that there was no need to print the photos.
No need to print photos? That got me thinking. Do many people not print their digital photos? With mobile phone, email, CD burning, network servers and god knows what other technology available, do people not have a need to print out their photos anymore to share it with friends and family?
Although I still have the satisfaction of thumbing through "touchy feely" paper photos, getting finger prints on them, and freaking out later, and just generally "oooing" and "aaaing" whilst holding the photographic evidence in my hands.... there are hundreds, potentially thousands more of these digital photos to print out and go through.
My aim is to eventually have colour coordinated albums filled with these printed photos lining my book shelves, but for now to share it with you all, even I will make use of technology, with just a click of a mouse and a touch of a key....
