Preserve & Store Old Photographs

Oct 05, 2019

Nowadays capturing images from mobile is trending now, taking selfy everywhere, every second with different facial expressions, with location, with a friend, with places, with food, with dresses, with building etc. Every mobile user is spending most of the time on this exercise. Called SELFIE (shoot yourself). For this, they prefer buying expensive mobile.

Every mobile manufacturing launching their mobile with great features of the camera like 20, 25, 40 megapixels, Good wide/zoom option along with good storage (32Gb, 128Gb etc), face detection and most important 1000s of photo filters means you can edit your images into 1000 ways. Time-consuming exercise for youngsters, teenagers etc. Sometimes they ignore friends & family.

This article is not about promoting mobile camera, selfie, camera features, This article is about how you preserve your old images. No teenager, youngster or other mobile users, beginner photographer hardly thinks about this STORAGE/ Preserving of photos. have you ever think?

Old Photographs stories- Longtime back when there were no mobile phones, digital cameras exist. At that time we used to have Film Cameras who capture black & white photographs. Colour photograph technology invented later on. But we had a good habit to print the image, get it into the stylish wooden frames and love to hang on the wall or keep it on the table near the window. That gives a great feeling to all the family members and creates good stories to other family friends, relatives etc. watch old English and Hindi movies, you can find the photographs hanging on the wall in a very creative way. If you have your grandpa's, old family members, old friend, old school's photos then scan it and preserve it. If possible hang the images on the wall.

Amazing habit - Now, We have no time to print the images, don't have a habit to store the images into the safest mode. We believe in capturing images and do not ever feel to print and display in a home. This means you are not capturing the memories because you do not feel to view your images again and again. What is the use of capturing 32GB storage images when not even a single image can take a better place in your home? THINK and change your habits if possible.

Choose and save the images- Once in a week, choose the best images out of your mobile folder which can be stored, never store all the images, never choose the same location, same group images. choose the best one to store and print. make this habit of choosing the best images and store in the safest device or computer etc. Never ever believe in your mobile. Mobile can be stolen, cracked, may have software problems then all your images are gone.

Old images are a treasure not for you only but your grandsons/daughters, next generation. maybe they convey a different message to the entire new world after decades. Maybe, your images become rare and can be sold into millions of dollars. It is your duty to preserve your images into safe mode. Remember

I advise, buy icloud storage and try to save the only important photographs there because any device like a mobile, hard disc, computer's hard drive can be crushed anytime. It's better to have all your important images, data on icloud storage. Nowadays icloud storage is quite cheap to buy. You can download the application into your mobile and save images directly from your mobile like google drive.

One must understand the importance & value of a photograph. I suggest you preserve all your valuable memories at your best level.

Keep experimenting and have wonderful and happy photography to you all.

Photographer and Blogger Prasenjeet Gautam (www.prasenjeetgautam.com) has captured all the above images. INDIA