MORE RAVES: Famed photography and tech journalist, Jefferson Graham just published an article on his experience having his slides digitized using our XPress ScanFast service:
"Last weekend, I decided to sit down and make a physical photo album from the western trip. It’s a process I haven’t done in a few years because it’s so time-consuming. I’m not a fan of Shutterfly’s software, but the result is pretty good. Plus, a lot of our older vacation albums were made on Shutterfly, so I wanted to match them.
After I finished the album (it took several hours), I wondered about the photos taken from another western trip my wife Ruth and I did years ago. Wouldn’t it be nice to make a companion album of that trip too?
But where were the photos? I’d digitized a few, but most were still in print form. So I went on a tear to find them, through closets, portfolios, shoeboxes, slide trays, you name it, and finally got the bottom of it. It turns out many were in the form of slides or negatives.
I sent them on Monday to ScanMyPhotos.com. Went to the UPS Store, and paid $11 for shipping, plus another $3 for the box.
It arrived Tuesday, and by the afternoon, the images were available to me via a Wetransfer.com link for me to download.
Talk about amazing service!
Beyond the western trip, I found photos of my late dad I didn’t remember taking, a jewel of a photo of me at age 13 or so with very long hair that’s priceless (I never seen it, at least not in the second part of my life) and other gems.
The story's moral is that in the last three weeks, we have lived through fires, floods, hurricanes, and so on. Isn’t it time to get our photos backed up, copied, and protected? If not now, when?
You'll be astonished by the sheer number of photos lost due to Hurricane Idalia. If there was ever a compelling reason to digitize your photo archives, it is to protect them from the ravages of natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires.
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