Okay so while working on my Digital Filing Cabinet Project (Digital Filing Cabinet Part One & Digital Filing Cabinet Part Two) I found a lot of old photo’s that predated the Digital era. Some of them I struggled to remember where and when I had taken them, others I couldn’t remember who the people were. Well, this simply wouldn’t do! So I scanned them in and headed off to my parents for Sunday lunch.

While we were catching up and generally putting the world to rights my Mum handed me some photo’s that she had taken recently and printed out. We looked at the pictures, which happened to be of my Niece and Nephew and found ourselves comparing them to my sister and I when we were younger. This led to some of the hundreds of photo’s my parents have being dragged out from the dark hiding places they have lived for years.

This got me thinking! I bet we have thousands of pictures between us that predate the digital era that are important in remembering some very significant events and more importantly some very important people that are no longer with us. We remember them now but who will remember them in future? Who will tell my Niece and Nephew about these people and places?

So the “Family Photo Archive Project” was born! The aim of this project is to scan and store as many of the family’s old photo’s as possible and record who the people are and where they were taken.

This is going to be a long term project, but one that I am sure will be worth while and will also allow me to learn a little more about photography and image manipulation, and area I have been keen to learn more about for a while. Once I have got up to speed I will open this up to other family members, allowing them to contribute there own photo’s and memories.