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bestcee

In love with places I've never been to
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How do you scrap it?

We have an aquarium pass, and I take a few shots every time we come. One or two ends up in my Project Life. And usually one ends up as my Screensaver. But I also keep asking myself how many aquarium pages do I need???

What do you do with the photos from places you frequent?

PS: not taking photos is apparently not an option. I tried to leave the camera home today and was out voted by the males in my family.
 
I put them in!! I do! cause those darn kids grow so fast! We go to the same park almost weekly and swim everyday in the summer. I bring the camera. I snap a few pics each time.
fast forward 4 years
my now 9 year old has book from 2012 last night (MaY) and is blown away at how much he grew, and points out the new building in the background, and more!
trust me, take the photos, scrap them (my problem is I find my pages looking the same...hahhah) so I fill a page with a ton of photos
 
We have held annual passes to Mount Vernon (George Washington's home) for years, and I've taken many, many photos during our visits. I ended up focusing my photos on different parts of the estate each trip, that way I didn't have too many repeats. I couldn't help but take some of the same photos each time, like of the kids in front of the mansion.
 
it's funny you specifically mention the aquarium for this. bc that is exactly what comes to mind when you say "someplace you go often" (and have more or less the same photos every time you go!) ... for me ... they sit on my computer. until i have a need for them. i don't really know what else to do with them all. same goes for the endless animals at the zoo photos.

@MelanieB just made a really cute page though with her clown fish photo ... so i think doing something fun and playful like this is a good idea :

 
QuiltyMom said:
We have held annual passes to Mount Vernon (George Washington's home) for years, and I've taken many, many photos during our visits. I ended up focusing my photos on different parts of the estate each trip, that way I didn't have too many repeats. I couldn't help but take some of the same photos each time, like of the kids in front of the mansion.
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that's a great idea ... to focus on the details. maybe you see something new each time? i also like the idea of a "see how they've grown page" if you tend to take the same photo : of the kids in front of the mansion year after year. that would be fun to see from that point of view. :)
 
You have read my mind! So weird. I had been thinking about this for the last 2 soccer games we played this weekend! I keep taking the SAME pictures in the SAME park, lol! Both boys are defenders and both take a lot of the penalty and corner kicks, so it's always them kicking! :giggle

I haven't taken a few pictures these last few games, but after reading, I will get back in the habit. I was taking more pictures bringing the camera with me everywhere, than even my cell!

I will have to keep scrapping them, as I won't always have soccer games to go to... will focus on different things and I will also find new ways to use them!

Thanks ladies!
 
tkradtke said:
I'm a bad one to answer since I basically only do PL... but the photos go in every single time. And although the photos may appear to look the same, the stories that go with them each time might be different.
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to me, this is the thing..... we had a London Zoo pass, and when we lived in Brazil Sarita did ballet and capoeira classes...it looked like the photos where the same...but they aren't...and every day is a different story...so you can journal even if not about the visit itself, the way you felt, pay attention to detail like Jan said... oh if I was a scrapper when Sarita was little.... I would have been in scrap heaven LOL I need to go back and start scrapping her 9 & 10 years old.... I had said I would do until she was 16 but got side tracked ... I need to take on that again!
 
I have loved every comment so far!!! Great ideas.
I use those photos for new techniques, too, because I know I have so many of them, they seem to be prominent in my mind.
 
janedee said:
Can you hand off the camera to someone else and get a few photos from a different viewpoint?
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I love this idea!!!

QuiltyMom said:
I ended up focusing my photos on different parts of the estate each trip, that way I didn't have too many repeats.
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I've done that with the zoo, snouts one time - tails another. I hadn't thought to apply it to the aquarium.
 
I have a lot of San Francisco Zoo pages. What about a seasons page or some kind of comparison page? Like what you all wear to go out in winter, spring, summer, & fall. I use all my pics no matter what. I buy every camping kit cuz that's my favorite vacation every year.
 
I didn't realize just how many Houston zoo pics I took until I organized pics last night. :) After reading Anne's post, I wondered if perhaps you could do a 2-page "the aquarium through the years" LO to see your kids' growth and the location's changes. Or you just scrap them and call it good, which is what I do lol. But I guess you've got to get lots and lots of fishy kits. :shopping = :stash
 
I've got five years worth of hundreds of pictures each year from our trips to Mexico, basically to the same place, so lots of almost duplicates and similar pictures, but often with different stories from that day or trip. I tried scrapping them into albums with PL or other pocket page templates, but they seem to turn out more like travel brochures than vacation joy.

Now as I scrap, I may pick a picture from one year or another to fit a theme or challenge for what it triggers in my memory, and I save the final page (psd) into a folder for the year (place) the photo came from. As I get enough pages in the folder to feel I have a good start I may change some backgrounds to match, add more journaling ( I keep a travel journal of our trips with notes and suggestions and lessons learned for next trip... ). I maybe re-do a couple of pages to have a bit more continuity in design and voila - I have an album really meaningful to that trip.

Maybe a strange approach, but I find my pages have more depth and detail this way, with lots of interest I may not have included on the easy first pass.
 
janedee said:
Can you hand off the camera to someone else and get a few photos from a different viewpoint?
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^^^^ This.

@4noisyboys has some AMAZING pics that her little granddaughter took. Super cool. I can't wait to see if/how she scraps them. :)

We are creatures of habit and unfortunately don't go a lot of different places, so I deal with this a lot in PL. Sometimes I include them, sometimes not. It depends. If I include them, I try to pick something slightly different or journal about it differently.

But I also think having pics of the same sorts of things over the years is cool because things do change and it is fun to look back and see things as they were. Even aquariums change over time.
 
This is me, too. My 2015 book includes 3 baseball games, 2 trips to the zoo, 2 visits to the botanical garden. I've tried to make the layouts all look different. Like just taking pictures of animal faces at the zoo.
 
I say scrap them, for all the reasons above! I do. We go to the same resort in PV, Mexico every Spring, but there are different faces, different ages, different events or instances and all with difference stories. :-)
 
These are great questions, and great ideas! One of the things you can do is challenge yourself as a photographer to shoot the same thing but in a different way. What about shooting one trip from the perspective of the fish? What do they see as your boys look through the glass at them? This might mean kneeling on the ground right against the tank and shooting up at your kids as they peer through the glass. Reaction shots of them laughing or pointing would be especially fun.

Another time, you could focus on where you place your feet. Is there anything interesting on the ground? (I'm thinking of the National Zoo, where they had paw prints that led you to the big exhibits.) I love photos of little kid's feet when they're fidgeting, or standing on their tiptoes trying to see something.

Maybe a trip focusing on hands - pressed against the glass, pointing - or the signs you see, or one just on eyes - kids' eyes, fish eyes, animal eyes, etc.

It's a fun way to stretch yourself as a photographer - your artist's eye, so to speak - and to expand on the photos you're capturing of a place that's obviously near and dear to your family's heart. Hope these ideas help a little!
 
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