An embarrassing confession

Personal, Photography

July 26, 2012

I just noticed it last night….we were sitting around, looking through our personal photo albums for fun and reminiscing over how fast the past almost five years together have gone by. I closed the last album and went to look for 2011-now. A lot has happened since then…you’d think we’d have it all in an album for posterity.

NOPE.

When I realized I had no pictures from the past year except for a few prints we ordered from our wedding day, I was pretty surprised. I feel like I’m always behind a camera, so where are all the pictures? I’m SHOCKED and ashamed to admit that I don’t really take them for fun anymore. Yeah, I carry around my iPhone and take pictures with that…but I almost never bring my DSLR places with me unless I’m working.

Am I crazy? Is this totally awful? I feel like I’m the old cliche, the shoemaker’s kids have no shoes…the photographer’s family has no pictures.  FOR SHAME. John and Lucy, this is my internet vow to you guys….I will work on documenting our life a little (okay, a lot) more so one day when we’re all old and wrinkly we can look back on our life together and reminisce on all the good times by looking through our albums and not by trying to check Facebook or find my Instagram feed.

(note: over 80 percent of the album space pictured is EMPTY!! You see our problem?)

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  1. molly says:

    i am TERRIBLE at putting stuff in an album – HOWEVER, what’s made it SUPER easy is in the last year i’ve been getting a lot of those deals / coupons for the shutterfly or picasa photobooks (nothing fancy) but it’s been fun to design little mini albums of life. i wouldn’t do those for a wedding album (obviously) but for every day life? they’re PERFECT

  2. Anna says:

    This is so true! Daniel and I have an album from our first year together and haven’t put anything together since! Ah, we really need to get on that!

  3. Ali W says:

    omg me too. how do we fix this?!?!

  4. karen says:

    Gah, we do the same thing!! I’ve really been trying to get better at printing pictures that I take (or actually taking pictures!), but it’s so hard! At least you have albums! That’s a great first step. 🙂 I keep telling myself that once we have kids, we’ll have more pictures. 🙂 Ben is the 4th kid of 7, and he has a grand total of about 5 pictures of himself growing up (made for a very uneven wedding day slideshow), and it totally bums me out. I’m determined to make sure our future children have more pictures of themselves than they know what to do with…haha!

  5. i feel like that’s the plight of photographers everywhere!!!! i need to order personal pictures toooooo!!!!!

  6. Oh no… just you wait. It’ll get worse (unless you nip it in the butt right now)! I used to keep personal albums my entire life until about 2005… coincidentally that is the year I started photography school. Since then I have printed a few but no albums to show for the last 7 years. :- Also – we’ve been married 3 years and still no wedding album either! :-

  7. Emilia Jane says:

    I haven’t even picked the pictures we want to put on the wall from our wedding. It’s terrible!

  8. guilty. Married 5 years ago & only one photo on the wall to show for it. No albums since the wedding…shame on me!!

  9. katie yuen says:

    I’m always remembering that I need to print and put pictures in albums I have and I never get it done! I found a scrapbook from my senior trip in highschool that is still unfinished! ahh

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