digital photos

Taking Digital Photos – Be Careful What You Wish For

November 16, 2010

This year we decided to send a photo card as our Christmas card.  Each year we get some that are really cute, so I thought, “why not”?  We do fun things all year, I’m sure people want to see our pictures from the shore or a family gathering.  So I told my husband and he [...]

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The Not-So-Perfect Digital Photos for your Photo Christmas Cards

June 1, 2010

You know that you are taking a lot of (possibly too many) digital photos when a two year old sees you with your camera and then sweetly asks, “You want to take my picture?” This is what my grandson said to me recently when he noticed me spying on him, trying to take a cute [...]

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Holiday Photo Cards Tips (In-Laws Style)

June 16, 2009

In my husband’s family, there is never a shortage of pictures to choose from when creating our holiday photo cards! Now, I am not saying these are necessarily good pictures, but pictures non-the-less. It all started when my father-in-law got a new digital camera. After giving him a tutorial on how to use it, he [...]

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Photo Christmas Cards Made Especially for Grandma

June 2, 2009

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. From Grandma’s mantle hung elaborate holiday cards from all across the land…Uncle Ted in New Mexico to the left, Aunt Jessie in Maine to the right, and whose is that in the center? It’s your photo [...]

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Taking Great Digital Photos Can be Really Easy

May 19, 2009

Anyone can use a digital camera. Just point and click, right? The obvious answer would be yes for most people, but that’s only partially true. It depends on what you’re taking a picture of, if you’re taking a picture for your digital Christmas photo cards, what hour of the day it is, whether your subject [...]

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No Need to Stress With your Holiday Photo Cards

May 5, 2009

Every year since my kids were little, I would go crazy trying to get our Christmas tree decorated in time for taking pictures in front of it for our holiday photo cards. It was hard work getting the two kids (who didn’t really like to pose) and the camera-shy dog to cooperate for the multiple [...]

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Holiday Photo Cards at the Rutgers Football Game

April 28, 2009

Many of us are sure to grab the digital cameras for obvious social events such as weddings, vacations and birthday parties. When September rolls around every year, you’ll find me taking photos at a different kind of social gathering: a Rutgers football game. No, I don’t have a side job as a sports photographer (although [...]

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The Joy of Restoring Old Family Photos

March 10, 2009

For the past couple of years, my wife Susan has really been into the studying and tracing of her family history. Genealogical research is a complex process that involves more than affixing a collection of names on a pedigree chart. Genealogy involves identifying ancestral or descendant families by using historical records to establish biological, genetic, [...]

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Holiday Photo Cards – A Gift from Mother Nature

January 30, 2009

I love to go on long hikes in the mountains, and with the onset of the temperate fall climate, it’s the perfect time to get lost in nature’s glory. I live in the lovely state of New Jersey, and contrary to popular belief, it is not the arm pit of America. New Jersey is home [...]

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Photo Christmas Cards Say it all with Family Photos

January 23, 2009

Wow! Without even trying, this year I’ve got one of the most excellent family photos for my photo Christmas cards! It started with a Grandparent’s Day gift: tickets for the whole family to go together to the circus – grandparents, parents and children. Getting there included the usual merry-go-round of logistics planning, and teasing about [...]

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