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digital images, digital photos, drive computer crash, hard drives, Las Cruces Photographer, our generation, personal photos, photographer
That sounds worse than it looks. I promise! I recently had a rude awakening when we had a hard drive computer crash. I lost a ton of personal photos. I had memories on there that I convinced myself that were lost forever. I recently read an amazing blog post by Mike Yost Photography. He talks about how our generation likely wont have any of the pictures we take within 10 years.
You can check it out here:
The Most Photographed Generation Will Have No Pictures in 10 Years!
It’s a very eye opening post. He hit the nail right on the head. We ARE the most photographed generation. We take photos of everything. Kids, selfies, family vacations, pets, day to day…and even our food. It’s crazy! We think we have these photos forever inĀ our digital age. Our generation is going to start learning the hard way, time after time, that digital is not forever. I am a photographer. A photographer that should know better. I’m a photographer that stresses ALL the time how important it is to get professional prints and not worry so much about the digital images. I’ll admit that I absolutely HATE when people opt for the digital images only. It makes me sick to my stomach. The chances of them actually printing the pictures is slim to none. At that point I don’t care if you get them printed professionally. Just, please, print them off!!! There is a saying that I became all too familiar with: “All hard drives crash. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.” My computer was relatively new. It was just under two years old and it crashed. I couldn’t believe it. I sent my hard drive to an amazing data recovery place called RTS Data Recovery. (http://www.rtsdatarecovery.com/) They saved everything I had on my computer. Yes, it came at a price. But a price that was worth it for my priceless memories. There is a simple point I am trying to make…print off your important photos and even your seemingly unimportant photos. Back them up to the latest technology any chance you get. Then back them up again. Don’t think that it wont happen to you. I am going to print off as many photos as I can afford and I will fill up cheap photo albums. Then I will fill up more. You don’t have to spend a fortune to keep your cherished memories. Trust me though, you will regret not having them in print if you can’t recover the images. Make prints important again. It’s worth it!