Friday, April 27, 2012

A photo book makes an ideal gift

By Stephanie Crowes


The way that we take and display photographs has changed beyond recognition: no longer do we have to wait to see whether the picture is a good'un, it appears instantly on the viewfinder of the camera. There are no more piles of packets of photos collecting dust, as each photo is a digital file, stored on a hard drive.

It is this immediacy, added to the fact that you can save thousands of pictures on a dinky memory card that has irrevocably changed the way we take pictures.

One consequence of the digitisation of photography, however, is that we now tend less to display our treasured photos in albums; our photos sit on hard drives, CDs and USB memory sticks and need a machine to be seen.

Albums of photos seem like relics from the past, what with web sites for sharing photos online and DIY photo editing. Suddenly, sticking your photos into an album can seem terribly old-fashioned, and yet a photo book can be a way of combining the pleasure of flicking through your printed photos with a sleek and modern presentation.

A photo book looks for all the world like a glossy coffee-table book. It is, only it is one put together by you to show-case your photos. It allows you to keep a collection of your photos near, ready for any opportunity to show to friends and family (or to flick through yourself). Why not make a new photo book each time there is an exceptional event or family holiday and create a personal library of happy memories?

Once you have made a photo book for yourself, why not start creating them for others? A photo book of shared memories will make an individual and touching gift that cannot fail to delight the recipient, and is makes it easy to find great gift ideas to suit any occasion!




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