These days, unless you are a real fan of old cameras, chances are most of your vacation pictures, family photos and other general images were taken on a digital camera, meaning that even if you print them out you have copies somewhere on your computer, phone or on your Facebook or Instagram account which you can go back to if the hard copies ever get destroyed.
Of course, while we are all very used to digital cameras now, they haven't really been commonplace for all that long in the grand scheme of things, so if you were around pre 21st century it is likely that you have photo albums or boxes of old pictures that you took in the past.
How Would Losing Your Photos Make You Feel?
Photo albums are one of those strange things that while we may not even take them out and look at them that often, we feel a strong bond to them and are very upset if they are lost.
Many people who have had household disasters like floods and fires say afterward that it is the loss of things like these that cannot be replaced that is the worst thing, rather than losing expensive things they can buy new again when their insurance pays out! Photos, especially kids photo albums of children who have since grown up, or albums showing happy occasions you want to remember from the past like your first vacation with your husband or your first Christmas with your child, can be some of the most sentimentally important things in a home, yet many people have not taken any steps to safeguard them.
Scan, Organize and File
Taking digital scans of your old photos is easy, and can be done with an ordinary scanner/copier type device. If you don't have one of these, you most likely will know someone who does, so ask to borrow it, or, if you want a more basic way to get some form of copy of your old pictures you can even photograph them with your digital camera or phone.
The important thing is to replicate the image in a digital file. When you have got all of your pictures (or you can do this as you go along), create a library that is either on a cloud service like Dropbox, or on a site like Instagram or Facebook where the pictures will be held online rather than on your computer, so if your computer breaks down you don't lose all of these files.
If you don't want other people to see the photos online, you can create private libraries on most photo websites, so you don't actually need to share your pictures to use them.
Having copies of your pictures that are held safely on the web means that you can look at them, or print new copies, whenever you want to. While this may not be as good as having the originals back after an emergency, at least you will still have the images from all of those great memories to look at!
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