Family Photographer in Belfast | Emily

Jade Eaton
Feb 16, 2019
3 min read

I’ll bet you have used your iphone to take a picture of your family this week? Your phone memory might even be nearly full because you've taken so many photographs on your iPhone. It has never been easier to take photographs in a snap second– we all carry a small camera in our pockets. And yet our children have fewer and fewer physical prints to hold and look at.

When I was a child I used to love reaching up to the top of my mums wardrobe and looking through flip up photo albums that were organised by age per child. There were photographs of me and my bother playing in the garden, on holidays and general other documentation of us at that age. It felt like I was looking at a mysterious forgotten time because even my Mum and Dad looked a lot different to what they do now.. Dad's lost his hair now and he likes to say that happened when I was born ha! Looking at the bond between all of us in the photographs was truly lovely and cherishing, I wouldn't have been able to cherish that without having those prints to flip through. I could spend hours in those albums of photographs, in fact I think I did on the odd occasion as I liked to look through all the ages 0-4.

Imagine if those precious memories were instead sitting on something that needed a machine to let me see them. Or you had videos that were in a video cassette format. Even if my mum had kept the video cassette machines I’d needed, would just seeing them hold the same magic for me. Definitely not.

So have a think about where you store your own family photographs. Are they on your mobile phone? A hard drive? USB? CD’s? Mini discs? (remember those!?) Floppy discs? You get my point – technology is changing so rapidly that it can be difficult to keep up. The must-have storage of today is archived in favour of something new every few years.

The only way you can be sure to preserve your picture memories for your children and grandchildren is to print them.

Your Mobile Phone Pictures

For most of us, our mobile phones are where the majority of our ‘snaps’ are kept. The everyday images of holidays, days out, toothy grins, first foods, and silly selfies. These are the images your children will cherish when they grow up – you must print them! And you have loads of options for printing from your mobile phone – here are some of my favourites:

I couldn't encourage FreePrints enough for this. You get an allowance of 40 free prints a month and only have to pay for postage. This is a great way of ensuring you are printing out all those memories as it reminds you near the end of the month if you haven't used the free prints yet.

Click this link and you will get an extra 5 prints every month for the next six months!

Your Professional Pictures

As well as the everyday snaps, most families choose a professional photographer like me to capture more important milestones. New additions to your family, birthdays, a new pet, or the annual family portrait all involve a professional portrait photographer who can capture you all in a perfect setting, looking your best. The portraits I produce at my photography studio in Belfast, Northern Ireland are your own personal works of art and are designed to be displayed. There’s lots of evidence to show that it boosts self-esteem, confidence and contentment when your portraits are displayed in your home.

I offer clients print packages as well as wall art, and although I do sell USB’s which hold the digital copies of your images, I would always recommend purchasing prints and wall art products from me as I use a professional lab so I can guarantee the quality. You don’t want to invest in beautiful portraits only to have them printed poorly.

So I am going to show you one of my recent sessions with wee Emily, who was at her third milestone, but I'm also going to show you the prints mummy and daddy ordered. They ordered one 10"x8" Print, one 7"x5" Print and even said upon receiving the prints "We need to get frames for these now so we can put them up". This to me is cherishing because why not show everyone beautiful art who comes into your home.

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