enzodm
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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I started printing from digital a couple of years ago (so I have a hole of many years, because I have many prints and slides from the analog era). I agree with Keith: we have now more capability of capturing moments, but less probability to preserve them for the future. I have floppy disks I'm no more able to read, and some CDs too. Paper -at least, good paper- apparently lasts more. One of my pleasures as a kid was to look at my parents pictures - snapshots, no more, but full of life.
So, now I print travel pictures (just a selection, as memories). This in small format (12x18cm) or small photobooks (still to understand whether any kind of paper is guaranteed to last). I print 20x30cm of the pictures I like more, but then I just put them in a drawer, except some of my wife that I give to my mother-in-law, which expose them at home. Looking on print is different than on screen. For my mother-in-law I also print pictures of our nephew (small format -many, and large -few), but at Christmas I also gave her a digital frame, to put more pictures, including those not worth a print but still beautiful at the eyes of a grandmother.
I print also some picture taken when playing music with friends (20x30cm). A number of them are on the walls of the room we use for playing. They are glad.
Many pictures go to Flickr, Picasa, Facebook. Some adequate become my desktop background for some time.
So, now I print travel pictures (just a selection, as memories). This in small format (12x18cm) or small photobooks (still to understand whether any kind of paper is guaranteed to last). I print 20x30cm of the pictures I like more, but then I just put them in a drawer, except some of my wife that I give to my mother-in-law, which expose them at home. Looking on print is different than on screen. For my mother-in-law I also print pictures of our nephew (small format -many, and large -few), but at Christmas I also gave her a digital frame, to put more pictures, including those not worth a print but still beautiful at the eyes of a grandmother.
I print also some picture taken when playing music with friends (20x30cm). A number of them are on the walls of the room we use for playing. They are glad.
Many pictures go to Flickr, Picasa, Facebook. Some adequate become my desktop background for some time.