Your photographs are a treasure trove of memories and yet for the majority of us (yes me included!) the most important of those memories often stay hidden away and forgotten about in the memory sticks (or old school CDs/DVDs) they were supplied on.
At the beginning of the month and the last Bank Holiday weekend celebrating VE Day, I took the time to reflect on life and what was important. For me that is family, friends, and precious memories.
We all saw those wonderful photographs from the VE Day celebrations back in 1945, but where would we be now if they hadn’t been printed. Yes I hear you say “that was 1945, nothing was digital!”. I totally get that and yet Photography was expensive back then and yet they still printed their photographs.
So let’s fast forward to 2095. That’s 75 years from now. Or even just 50 years, or 10 years. Technology moves on at an incredible rate. Your daughter, grandson, great-niece, Godson asks to see some photographs of you on your wedding day, or the day you got engaged. They also want to see your parents, your friends, people whose names they’ve heard but have never seen. “Of course!” you reply; “They’re stored on that old USB/iPhone/laptop under the spare bed.”
And so you finally find said USB/iPhone/laptop exactly where you said it was. But there’s no charger. It won’t power up. The USB has corrupted over time. The old iPhone has been thrown away in error (it didn’t work after all and it wasn’t backed up so you’d lost everything on there anyway!). There’s no way of accessing the images.
It’s a worrying thought but something we need to consider given that no one really knows how long digital images last.
One thing that struck me seeing all the incredible VE Day photographs was that people don’t throw away photographs. There’s something about a physical photograph. It’s so much more than just some nice photographic paper. It holds memories. It tells a story. In the faces it shows it holds your past and those of future generations to come.
It’s time to print…
So to celebrate the joy of a printed image, for all of this weekend and next week until midnight on Sunday (31.05.2020) here at NKP we have a fantastic photographic print for our Clients.
From our UK print specialists we are offering 25% off all print orders including prints on the stunning Fine Art Photographic paper.
And for orders of £75 or more we’ll also throw in free shipping!*
Ping an email across to me here at NKP via the usual email address (hello@nikkikirkphotography.com) and I’ll send your unique Client discount code across which you are welcome to share with your family and friends too.
If your wedding Gallery is still live place your order in the usual way and use the code given to you.
If your Wedding Gallery is no longer live just have a look through your USB (or CD if you were married more than 5 years ago) and send me the first three numbers of each image you would like printed. I’ll raise and invoice for you which can of course be paid through the online shop or through a transfer,
*free shipping to 1 x UK address via Royal Mail Special Delivery.