Archiving Images

[KmH]

You never know when having images archived might pay off, both for you and for a customer.

One way is a former customer suffers something catastrophic that destroys all the images you made for them.
They want another set of the images. You get another sale, and at your current prices.

Something happens that makes a customer famous, if only for a short time.
Such happened to a photographer in little Kentwood, Louisiana - pop. 2,205.
The photographer had made high school senior photos for a boy there in town.

Five years or so later in 2004 the boy married a childhood girl friend. The marriage took place at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.
But the marriage was annulled just 55 hours later.
The boy's name is Jason Allen Alexander, and his childhood girl friend had become a famous popular singer - Brittney Spears.

Lots of news and print publications wanted, and bought from the photographer, photos of the 5 year or so younger Jason Allen Alexander. Cha-Ching!

 

[Directway]

We have a client we have been doing family photos of for three years. They were transferred to a northern area for his job. This summer there was a massive forest fire in that area and they had to be evacuated with 20 min notice. They left every thing behind. They called us to check if we still have all their photos which we do. They would have been happy to repurchase all of them. Luckily the wind turned and none of the town was damaged. We give clients a limited guarantee of one year storage barring catastrophic equipment failure. We have a triple redundant backup system which should keep images safe indefinitely but I will not guarantee that. It did feel good to tell someone that might lose everything that at least these few memories were safe.