It was our combined birthday party. I think I was turning 10 or 11, so my sister was turning 8 or 9. Dad borrowed the video camera from his friend for a week or two. There were 10 of us running around our backyard. We were showing off for the camera. Knock-knock jokes. Cartwheels. Dad did a goofy stop-motion of all of us disappearing and then reappearing. It was fun, and I probably remember it because there is video evidence. Otherwise, I don’t really have a memory from that party that’s not attached to the footage.

Imagine shelves full of binder style photo albums, some of the pages crooked in the neat stack of pages because one of the punch holes ripped. This is what our dad’s book shelves were lined with. He would print triples by the time we got to high school, one for each of us and one for him. Sometimes, instead of giving us a copy, he’d give a whole set to the friend we went on vacation with. I vividly remember where the photo department was at each of the places he developed the photographs. I searched for our name on the yellow Kodak or green Fuji envelopes, scratched out in his capitals-only handwriting. I could hardly stand the 3 day wait we had to endure to go pick them up.

Previous clients of mine might not know that my gallery site now hosts pictures for a long time. You should be able to go in and order prints anytime in the future. If you only ordered a couple for frames this year, but really want to print the rest, you should be able to do so anytime you please! The last few clients of the 2021 got to poke around on the site. This video shows you how pretty the new site is. The next video shows you some of the purchasing options.