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Chief Photo Archivist at ScanMyPhotos.com Featured on ✨CBS NEWS: https://ow.ly/L8C750U4Nc4 ✨ USA TODAY: https://ow.ly/CmmJ50T5Sv8 ✨TODAY SHOW: https://ow.ly/n9Kq50T5SCR #Photography #Digitize #FamilyHistory #PhotoScanning
Double header today! When we ask customers getting pics digitized “How’d you hear about us?” we hear Referral, TV News, Friend, WSJ, Review, Podcast, Blog. But today ONE order said: “Google & Reddit!” 😄 The internet works! #ScanMyPhotos #Memories
The The Wall Street Journal review of @davidpogue.bsky.social’s Apple: The First 50 Years just landed. Apple didn’t succeed by getting everything right. Constant reinvention, learning from misfires, and repeatedly starting fresh when old ideas stopped working. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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Remember buying rolls of 35mm film, loading it into the SLR camera, and dropping it off at the one-hour photo lab?
You opened the envelope at the counter. Friends leaned in. A few laughs. A few “remember this?”
Then the photos went back into an album, a drawer, or a box.
One day a box of old photos will be the only place your family can still see you young, laughing, alive.
Paper fades. Faces blur. Time wins.
Digitize them while the stories are still warm in someone’s voice.
Who’s in your oldest photo?
#memories #family #nostalgia
Your kids will ask one day, “What were you like when you were young?”
The answer might be sitting in a dusty photo box right now. Not yet scanned: youtu.be/JOQL-nfQtc4?...
One day you open an old photo box. The paper is fading. The edges curl. A smile you love is still there. Digitizing photos is like opening the window and letting those memories breathe again. Save them while you still can.
#memories #family #nostalgia
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Photos Are Your Time Machine. Open the Box Again
Remember buying a roll of 35mm film, loading it into the camera, and dropping it off at the one-hour photo lab?
You opened the envelope at the counter. Friends leaned in. A few laughs. A few “remember this?”
@avforums.bsky.social can you guess what this is doing? Hint: youtu.be/JOQL-nfQtc4?...
Friday vibe: that moment you close the laptop, exhale, and the whole world suddenly feels lighter… like the weekend just cracked open the door and said “c’mon in.” ☀️ Anyone else feel that exact second it hits?
#FridayVibes #weekendgroovin786
Question for RootsTech attendees:
If you could ask one ancestor one question, who would it be and what would you ask?
That answer alone could rewrite a whole family story.
#RootsTech #Genealogy
Ever find an old photo and feel like you just opened a hidden door in your own life? 🚪📸
Moments rush back. Faces. Places. Laughter.
Digitize those photos and suddenly the door stays open forever.
Your story is waiting inside.
#PhotoMemories #DigitizePhotos
Photographers know the struggle…
Take 200 pics 📸
Delete 180
Keep 20
Post 1 😅
Perfection takes a lot of “almost.” #PhotographyLife #BehindTheScenes
The most stressful text on earth:
“Can you talk for a sec?” 😳
No context. No emoji. Just pure suspense. We all start replaying everything we did wrong lol. #Texting #Relatable
You ever open your phone for “1 sec”… then 45 mins later you’re deep in random videos you never meant to watch? 📱😅 Happens to all of us. Attention is the new currency. #SocialMedia #DigitalLife
Everyone’s posting about AI today, but here’s the real moment: the first time you ask it a random question… and it answers better than Google ever did. That’s the second you realize the internet just changed. #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews
Customer Q: “Can I get replacement CDs for photos scanned back in 2014?”
Friendly reminder: once you receive digitized photos, always make multiple backups and keep one offsite. Tech changes, discs fade, files get lost. Memories deserve a safety net. #PhotoTips #FamilyMemories
Can you relate to this? Picked up at the photo lab in the 90s. Smiled at for 10 seconds. Then tucked away for decades. 📸
Truth: Most (96%) pre-digital photos were last seen the day they were developed. Time to see them again.
#ScanMyPhotos #FilmPhotography #FamilyMemories
Guess what we do to solve the biggest change in photography.
Hint: youtu.be/JOQL-nfQtc4?...
Walking around #RootsTech and thinking about the boxes of old photos families still have at home. Those pics are history. Digitizing them helps disaster proof your story for the next gen. This CBS News piece explaibs all: youtu.be/JOQL-nfQtc4
#FamilyHistory
96% of printed photos are never looked at again after they’re developed
Not because they don’t matter.
Because we assume they’ll always be there.
Today’s easy fix and photo scanning special: www.scanmyphotos.com/photo-scanni...
If you’re attending #RootsTech, don’t miss this Kiplinger story, incl creative ways to use old photos to make family reunions even more memorable:
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#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
Just watched a TikTok on the “most genius ways to cut fruit.” Did I click? Yep. Watch the whole thing? Yep. Share it? Yep. Do I remember a single trick or will I ever do it? Nope. But wow… very inspiring for 60 seconds 😂 #TikTok #FoodHacks
Who remembers this envelope? The moment the photo lab handed it over felt like opening a tiny treasure chest. Negatives inside. Memories waiting to breathe again. No cloud. No app. Just real life captured on film. Anyone else still have one? 📸
#FilmDays #PhotoMemories #Kodak
Thank you for the post. Just ordered.
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#Genealogy is more than names and dates. Photos bring family history to life, sparking memories documents miss. Digitize and add labels so future generations inherit the full story. Read: AARP® Smart Guide to Genealogy (paywall).
🔗 www.scanmyphotos.com/blog/2026/01...
Last night the Moon pulled off a cosmic magic trick 🌕 Earth’s shadow turned it into a glowing “Blood Moon.” Did anyone catch it on camera? Drop your pics below… let’s see them! 📸 Use #MoonMoments #LunarEclips
Let’s chat. 96% of printed photos haven’t been seen since the day they were developed. We back up phones… but not our past. That’s not nostalgia. That’s a data gap hiding in box. If you cover tech, culture, or photography this is a blind spot.
#Journalism #Tech
In WIRED, David Pogue reveals the truth: “Nobody wanted to carry two different devices.” That realization killed the iPod era & sparked a revolution. False starts, big bets, pure nerve. Read it. #Apple50 #iPhone
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96% of printed photos go unseen after the day they’re developed.
We back up phones instantly.
But decades of family photo history? Ignored.
Why are we protecting the present but not the past?
#Memory #DigitalAge
