There was a time when photographs were expensive and somewhat labour intensive. Everything was on film, and had to be processed and then stored for display, and there was no easy way to create canvas prints online. The end result was every family with a box or a drawer full of memories that never got pulled out, because it was simply too much trouble.
These days, we’ve gone digital, and not only is it easier to take almost infinite photos, it’s also cheaper and easier to display them – on our phones, our tablets, even our televisions – and to make them into stunning canvas prints for our walls. That means we live in a unique time when we can document our lives in a way that will leave a clear record of who we were. We’re probably the first generation in all of history with this exciting possibility – and by using our phones and printing services we should all be taking advantage.
Every Life Worthy of Canvas Prints Online
Some people don’t document their lives because they believe that they haven’t done anything worth documenting yet. They keep waiting and waiting to be ‘special’, and spend their time shying away from cameras. But the fact is, you don’t need to be famous or involved in historical events to deserve digital immortality.
For one thing, people never know when they’re actually part of history. It’s rare for anyone in the past to be conscious of the fact that people in the future will be curious about them – so don’t assume. There may well be a time in years to come when your everyday life will be of tremendous interest to the future.
Second, it doesn’t matter if the canvas prints online you create are someday the subject of worldwide fascination – your descendants will be grateful that you took the time to document your life. Imagine if you had video and photos of your grandparents or great-grandparents, especially in their early years. Imagine they preserved their lives as durable art prints on a regular basis – you’d be thrilled.
The Practical Approach
The key to documenting your life is your smartphone. While you can certainly carry a DSLR camera with you everywhere you go, it’s bulky and a bit ostentatious. Everyone has a phone, on the other hand, and thus you can carry a camera with you almost everywhere you go and snap photos all the time.
This means that every adventure you go on, you can take a quick photo and have it for future consideration. Every event you attend, every friend you make can be documented.
The next key is regular inventory. Not every photo will be worth your trouble. Some will be awful from a technical point of view, and you don’t need 100 photos of every moment – just one or two great photos worthy of turning into canvas prints online. Setting some time each week for going through your photos and deleting the poor ones and organising the good ones will make it possible to make this documentary project a going concern.
And that organisation is key – if you have thousands of photos with gibberish names at the end of the year, you’ll never be able to make them into a coherent story of you.
Get to work! Every life is worth celebrating through photos and canvas. And when you’ve selected the must-have moments from your life to be made into canvas prints online, click here and we’d be honoured to be part of your documentary project.
