I love photo books.  I love designing them and I love looking through them, taking the time to enjoy the photos I’ve taken over the years. I firmly believe that looking at photos in printed form is one of the …

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Last week kids went back to school – back to a routine after the relaxed nature of summer holidays.  It’s amazing to watch the holiday crowd disappear. We went to Marion Bay at the bottom of the Yorke Peninsula at …

Organising photos – holidays and school! Read More »

In the world of digital photo organising it is not uncommon to have many duplicate photos in our digital collection. In the pre-digital days, when we took our rolls of film to be developed, we may have ordered a duplicate …

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Metadata – what is it and why is it useful? Metadata, put simply, is information added to a digital file.  In the world of digital photos, adding metadata to your photo is the equivalent to writing on the back of …

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Last year I helped mum organise her printed photos. We did this over the course of a few months and not only was it fun to spend time with mum and listen to her stories, but it was also very …

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Today is World Backup Day, being ‘the day to prevent data loss’. It therefore seems like the perfect time to ask that all important question; are your photos backed up? For some of us, the answer will be ‘yes’, and …

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Last month my oldest daughter, Izzy, turned 21.  It was a special time, and a chance to reflect on those first 21 years of her life!  I remember various people saying to me when she was little to make the …

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Last year, I helped mum organise her family photos. She had already gone through many of her photos, and some had ended up on her wall in collages that she’d enjoyed putting together. But the majority were still sitting in …

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I have just finished putting together a new gallery wall in my home office. Although creating a gallery wall is fun, there’s quite a lot to it– it’s not just a matter of buying frames, placing the photos and putting …

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Following on from my post of August 2021, last week my family celebrated an important milestone in my youngest daughter’s life. Ivy officially finished Year 12 and had her last day of school on Friday 22nd October. It was an …

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Three years ago my oldest daughter, Izzy, finished highschool. I wanted to do something special for her, to celebrate her school years, and decided to do a small photo book celebrating each year of her school life, from kindy through …

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I was watching one of my favourite family TV dramas last week, “This is Us”, and Rebecca, the family matriarch, said the following to her adult daughter, Kate. “I remember taking the three of you home like it was yesterday …

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Years ago I bought a digital photo frame – it didn’t cost too much and as a consequence, it didn’t really perform that well either.  The quality of the images wasn’t great and the frame itself was clunky and it …

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Mum came over for tea recently and brought along some artwork which she’d found at the bottom of a cupboard somewhere.  My daughter Ivy had created it – probably whilst at childcare many years ago – and mum had somehow …

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In the first week of March last year, coming up to one year ago, my husband and I went to Japan for a week.  It was a holiday that we were very lucky to take, as a week or two …

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Each year I design a family photo book which serves as a pictorial record of our year as a family. This takes the place of the traditional photo album and I believe is a much nicer version. Photo books are …

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