My Photos are my Treasures / myLot

South Africa

September 13, 2015 11:58am CST

Responding to some writings I have done in the past regarding all my old photos of news-paper articles of my family, I do believe that our photos are our treasures and have the ability to take us back in time with every opening of the Photograph tin lid; or the Facebook; or the Albums that are stacked high in the back of the cupboard. I have taken to scanning all my photos that I possibly can find of my past onto the computer and burning them to DISC. This way I can preserve them if they get destroyed or fade with time. I even have them stored on my Apple ICloud for in case. What precautions have you taken to make sure that your treasures are not lost?

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Val

@valmnz (17097)

• New Zealand

13 Sep 15

I'm the other way round, I'm starting to make hard copies of some of my digital photos

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17713)

• South Africa

13 Sep 15

My walls are full of memories, but then I only have a small home to have hard copies all over the place.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16679)

• Boston, Massachusetts

13 Sep 15

I have some photos on my Dropbox, and some are still in hard copy. I hope not to lose them, but I doubt I will ever get them so organized as you have.

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17713)

• South Africa

14 Sep 15

I am only better organised because I have them in labeled tins as well. We have days that we sit with the REAL photos and have a laugh a minute at the strange things we take photos of . . . and the hairstyles

patgalca

@patgalca (18394)

• Orangeville, Ontario

14 Sep 15

I agree that photos are treasures. They are also memories. But I haven't gone so far as to scan older photos and put them in the computer. That would take a heck of a lot of time and I really have better things to do.

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Gina

@Gina145 (3949)

• Johannesburg, South Africa

14 Sep 15

So far I haven't taken any. That's something I really need to work on.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (472087)

• Switzerland

14 Sep 15

I am also in the processing of scanning all the old photos and even the slides that my husband loved to take during all those years of marriage. It's a long process.

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17713)

• South Africa

14 Sep 15

The longer we wait the longer the process - good luck and how is the painting going?

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Anna

@LadyDuck (472087)

• Switzerland

14 Sep 15

@Inlemay The painting is drying, my back is hurting, but I am happy when I look at the result.

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17713)

• South Africa

14 Sep 15

@LadyDuck then that is all that matters - mission accomplished - that can be your next post

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susan

@sueznewz2 (10409)

• Alicante, Spain

13 Sep 15

I have done the same as you backed them up on a hard drive and scanned all my pre digital photos.... I look at them quite often....

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susan

@sueznewz2 (10409)

• Alicante, Spain

13 Sep 15

@Inlemay I have that same feature but only turn it on occasionallyas my computer is a bit old and has a small amount of memory...plus I used to find I was not getting much done as I sat watching the photos scroll across the screen...lol's

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17713)

• South Africa

13 Sep 15

@sueznewz2 That happens often with me. The I get searching for more photos. How do you get the smilie faces??

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17713)

• South Africa

13 Sep 15

I have them as my screen saver that rolls all day long. like a flapping page of a photo album