In this day and age of digital files, rather than printed images, there is a real danger that all our family memories will sit in drawers around the country, never seeing the light of day. This in itself breaks my heart, but what’s worse is when my clients lose them altogether.
About four years ago, I photographed the beautiful Carey boys in Hampstead. A few weeks ago, their mother sent me a message to let me know that they had been burgled and that the images that I took that day were gone, along with many of their other possessions. Fortunately, I happened to have retrieved my 2009 archive that week from its usual off-site home, so I was able to send the Careys the images once again. Clare was so grateful, and I was truly delighted that I could help.
Please, I beg of you, if you receive digital files from your wedding or portrait photographer, immediately back them up to a USB or make actual prints from them. Store them outside of your own home, just in case of fire or theft. You may have noticed that I didn’t recommend saving them to a dvd or cd – this is because they are proving more and more unreliable, and the disc may not be readable in five years time.
In case you were wondering, these are some of the images from that shoot 🙂
Have a fabulous weekend xxx
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