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From the moment that the camera was first invented we have been taking pictures of everything. Over the decades tens of millions of photographs have been taken by both the professional and amateur alike.
These photographs have been placed in collections of albums or just hoarded in boxes or envelopes to be stored in our attics or under the bed.
With the arrival of the digital age we have still been taking photographs. Still taking million after million of snapshots. But the big difference is that the digital photograph is not always printed out onto hard copy in the way that we did with film cameras. More usually we store them on computer or other digital media. The outcome is that only a very tiny fraction of the photographs now taken digitally are made available in the hard copy form.
The inevitable always seems to happen and when the hard disk drive or other media fails we have lost our treasured photographs, forever. Unless we employ very expensive recovery methods we will never recovered those frozen moments in time and the event in history is lost.
Thankfully our forebears had the foresight to save history for us in the shape of the printed photograph. Even the film negative which creates the hard copy has often survived so that we can, even today, make further copies of that moment in time.
As technologys improve and change we will find that our current digital technology, even if the medium is in perfect condition, may be unreadable by future generations with their 'advanced technology'. So again those precious portions of today will be lost.
So we need to follow the lowest common denominator and use the tried and trusted technology of our ancestors and print each photograph we take and preserve it for the future. We may have to forgo the ability of our digital systems to take many images and return to that era when a careful selection of the image to capture had to be made.
So choose carefully your image. Produce the best quality hard copy you can and keep them safe. Then future generations will be able to look upon them as we do today at images from a hundred years ago. Those images we are able to scan and make further copies. We can save those memories and show them, as we do here in 'Snippers,.
These photographs have been placed in collections of albums or just hoarded in boxes or envelopes to be stored in our attics or under the bed.
With the arrival of the digital age we have still been taking photographs. Still taking million after million of snapshots. But the big difference is that the digital photograph is not always printed out onto hard copy in the way that we did with film cameras. More usually we store them on computer or other digital media. The outcome is that only a very tiny fraction of the photographs now taken digitally are made available in the hard copy form.
The inevitable always seems to happen and when the hard disk drive or other media fails we have lost our treasured photographs, forever. Unless we employ very expensive recovery methods we will never recovered those frozen moments in time and the event in history is lost.
Thankfully our forebears had the foresight to save history for us in the shape of the printed photograph. Even the film negative which creates the hard copy has often survived so that we can, even today, make further copies of that moment in time.
As technologys improve and change we will find that our current digital technology, even if the medium is in perfect condition, may be unreadable by future generations with their 'advanced technology'. So again those precious portions of today will be lost.
So we need to follow the lowest common denominator and use the tried and trusted technology of our ancestors and print each photograph we take and preserve it for the future. We may have to forgo the ability of our digital systems to take many images and return to that era when a careful selection of the image to capture had to be made.
So choose carefully your image. Produce the best quality hard copy you can and keep them safe. Then future generations will be able to look upon them as we do today at images from a hundred years ago. Those images we are able to scan and make further copies. We can save those memories and show them, as we do here in 'Snippers,.
LIFE IN PICTURES