Remember that old saying about "a picture tells a thousand
words." Well, a picture can't be saying too much, or at least not being heard,
if it's one picture among a thousand you have shoved in a shoe box under your
bed or elsewhere.
♦Don't
spend all your time organizing photos in a shoe box or elsewhere. Instead
display beautiful or sentimental pictures. They invite discussion from guests
who view them. And they'll elicit a smile from you at a memory or thought they
conjure.
♦Think beyond already overflowing tables and shelves. For
instance, hang your photo collection on walls throughout your home. Take notice
of how photos are grouped together in layouts in offices, other homes or even
art galleries.
♦Or
cluster multiple photos, of one theme, within a single frame with collage
matting designed to display several photos in various shapes and sizes.
♦And
trash the ugly photos. Don't keep every photo you shoot just because you did so.
♦And of course another good idea for organizing photos is to
go digital. Then you can store and organize photos from your digital camera
online or onto CD media storage.
♦You also can use a scanner to scan your older
photos (and make them digital photos). Then store them in a digital scrapbook
or have it published for the family as a real book with binding.
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