“You Press the Button, We Do the Rest.”
Those were the words coined by George Eastman, Kodak’s founder, for his first advertising slogan back in 1888. Whether it’s capturing your child riding her bike for the first time or feeding the seagulls at the beach, we all strive to preserve those moments, don’t we?
For most of the history of mankind, cameras were not invented yet so they had no way to preserve memories except by the slow process of painting on canvas. Cameras were not affordable until the turn of the 20th century so only a handful of pictures were taken of my parents when they were young. They took about 50 pictures of me growing up, all in black and white. Thanks to my uncle Bill there are a few scenes of me around 6 years old that he recorded on his 8mm movie camera (but without audio.)
Sharon and I took enough pictures of our kids to fill 10 photo albums and we shot over 100 video tapes, the first ones were recorded on a heavy shoulder mounted VHS camcorder. That was a new invention back then and it was exciting because you could actually record video to watch instantly! But now we already have 10 albums full of our grand kids and our oldest is not even 10 years old yet. Part of that is due to no longer having to buy film and having an almost unlimited supply of photos and videos to shoot on our digital cameras and phones. Kids today will have their lives well documented from the thousands of pictures and videos taken of them every year of their lives.
We like the old fashioned way of printing our photos and viewing them in albums. Sharon does a great job of arranging them on the pages. But I also like how the the Facebook Memories feature lets me recall the fun times we had in years gone by.
Did you ever stop to think that the very fact that we take a lot of pictures is testament to the cool things we get to enjoy in our lives? We need to browse through our photos every once in a while to remind ourselves of how blessed we are. It will help us to build a thankful heart!
Dwell in His secret place 