Adapting

Are Snapshots Dead?

That's the great question nowadays isn't it?  The future is always changing and shifting and no one can ever be certain of what is going to happen or how things are going to go.  All we can do is adapt.

We can only do things like embrace the technology that is flooding our industry and give parents options for digital images and packages to complement their printed memories.  They need memories they can share today, and memories that they can keep and share years and years down the road.  Because that's the thing with technology, it's always changing and we cannot guarantee that the pictures that we post on Facebook will be there forever, but those pictures in the drawer in the study, they can't get deleted.

We need to press that these memories that may not seem so important now, will be so important later on.  One of my favorite things is looking through old pictures of my parents (I am glad I missed the 1970's short shorts on men phase, but I'm pretty sure my dad still has a couple pairs of those tucked away) and seeing their life in pictures, something I would have totally missed otherwise.  Sure, they didn't have Twitter, or Facebook or even the Internet, but they adapted and saved what memories they could by printing out pictures and keeping their 'statues' on the back of those photographs.

So let's adapt together, for the good of the whole industry, and for those precious memories we can never get back, but we sure can see again.