family framed

Years ago I stopped giving photos to my husband for his Father's Day gift. I know he appreciates the pictures I capture of our girls but the truth is, it's me that wants one good reason to frame a recent shot of my kids. I learned to stop waiting for Father's Day to get those timeless moments framed and just did it. For myself. For our family. That's not to say I don't make my husband photo cards for every occasion because you know I do! But, that's another story.

When this Father's Day approached however, there was a project I had been wanting to do with our Fair Photo booth archives. When I got the One Cent Sale email from Aaron Brothers a few days before Father's Day I jumped at the chance. It is my most favorite sale of the year I must admit.

Above are the final results; two of the four years of Photo booth fun, scanned, enlarged a bit, matted in museum board mattes and framed in a simple black frame. A treasured Clark family series of playful photo booth portraits. I can't wait to hang them up! And yes, my husband loves them.

Sometimes a project will inspire you, sometimes it's the photo itself, or a holiday or a frame sale that does it. Other time you find a fantastic frame and then search for the perfect  photo to go in it.

Case in point the new Photoshop Photo Framefrom our friends at PhotoJojo. This is one of those frames that anyone who has a passion for photography in the digital age will love. Don't you agree?

Leave a comment today about a project, photo or frame that motivated you to get your work off of the computer and into your life Your comment will make you eligible to win the Photoshop Photo Frame (a la PhotoJojo). Yay!

Comments

[HappyHourMom]

Oh, yes please! I love the photo booth pics! I never thought those fun little moments could be anything more than up on the refrigerator. Thank you for sharing your creative ways, time to take another round o' booth pics!!!

[Kylie]

I am finally getting around to filling up an old typecase I bought online, with photos. Seems to be a little bit time-consuming re-sizing all the photos, but am so enjoying going thru all the archives! The type-case was an Ali Edwards inspired project - http://aliedwards.typepad.com/_a_/2008/05/weekend-creat-2.html The typecase I bought has all different size spaces like the second one in Ali's post - but slowly getting there!
Thank you for sharing your creative way with photobooth photos!

[MariaV]

I'm getting ready to start a NYC walkabout in connection with my job. The project will take several months and many of the photos will be printed in our annual report. However ... this is only the second time that I've done the photo work for it and the only reason I'm doing the photos is to save money. It is a labor of love. I promised myself a book of the best shots of the year once it is complete.

I've seen it around, but have never asked. Do you actually use a photo booth? Or do you create the photo booth photos in another way?

[Estelle]

My inspiration was my 40th birthday last year. The previous 18 months had included burying both my parents within 2 weeks of each other and my camera became my lifeline to the outside world. So I decided to print and enjoy looking at the photo's from my 40th birthday year. A trip to the staes, family time and celebrating my birthday in NEW YORK. All made for many happy and colourful memories in my album

[Alicia]

I just moved and want to fill my new hallway with photos... I'm thinking b&w, but I am trying to decide if I want to do a theme for them... It'll be like a mini-gallery hallway!

[Kate at LIttle House Monday]

So many photos to frame and never enought wall space. sigh. ;) Tracey, yours are wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing

[Dave Zeman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvWR9sV7KNk

Taking a half week off of work so I could let kids exhaust me in the morning at VBS inspired me to take picture after picture.... I posted only the ones that would be safe to show on the internet, but the memories will be rich in all the photos taken.

Dave

[kayla]

i LOVE photobooths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i bought magnetic photo ropes from photojojo for my room. they are so easy to change out and loook whimsical on my heavily covered walls.

thanks for the giveaway!

[Trisha]

My mother had six children....and all except one of us have blessed her with grandchildren, wives, husbands, etc etc etc. She always complains about not being able to remember everyone's birthday so I have decided to go through archives and create a yearly calendar for her. Each month will include photos of those who have birthdays that month and on months where there are no particular birthdays....if there is any such thing...there will be pics of her favorite things. Which made me think of a lady friend I have in Houston for who I am also going to make a calendar for next year as she now has a new son-in-law, daughter-in-law and soon a grandbaby. Also...she loves gardening and fall as I do as well as that awesome occassional glass of wine and beach....and as I so love taking gardening, floral shots, fall colors, etc etc.....I'm going to adorn her calendar with all kinds of her favorite things.

I know the calendars aren't a very original idea....but I'm looking forward to the project of going through old photos and doing this from year to year....always hopefully coming up with something 'new and fun' as well as some of the 'really old photos' of my grandparents, etc etc.

I can't wait. (Can I go home now and get started?!!!))

[Mama Moose]

I finally got a shot of my hubby I loved, so when I decided to frame it and hang it up, I realized I needed to redo the whole wall over the couch....it's still an ongoing project as I have not found all the frames I like yet!

[kristin]

my very first photos that inspired me to frame and hang, other than family shots, were the shots i took at The Gates in NYC. i thought they deserved to be printed large and framed, and so i did. that was the beginning of the love and quest in photography. feb 27, 2005. i was smitten.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14811117@N02/3024428924/in/set-72157608567502330/

[Danielle]

When I snapped a picture of my boys, who were just walking in the yard, at my mom's house, I knew it had to be framed!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27400048@N04/2949853984/in/set-72157605645028770/

I'm still working on getting pictures framed for my house. We renovated it and it's been so fun to figure out which pictures to put where.

[Lori]

a friend recently encouraged me to sign up for shutterfly. They offer free prints for just about everything. It has really inspired me to have some of my pictures printed. I'm excited to get my first batch in the mail soon.

[Gale]

We put 2 long shelves in our family room & I HAD to find a bunch of photos to display on the shelves.

[Mod Girl]

I love to print my photos onto postcards. I use the postcards for everything... invitations, thank you notes, thinking of you notes. When I send them to others it's like sharing a little piece of me and my world.

[Karyn]

My big project is to make the bestest awesomest travel book ever from our thousands of Europe vacation photos. I've got a plan - but I have a lot of photos (4000+) to go through and I'm limiting myself to 200 pages. Yes, it's going to be awesome and massive. I'll post the link on blurb.com once it's finally done!!!

I love photo booth pictures!!!

[spread your wings]

each year at our family reunion my daughter and her twins cousins (the twins, boy and girl, and my daughter are 10 years apart in age) take goofy face photos together. They're just silly photos. Last year I decided to convert them to black and white and frame each of them and hang them from a horizontal rod with decorative ribbon displaying 4 at a time. It's fun to look back over the years - how they change and interact together.

[Tammy]

I have a great big wall in the entrance of my house that I have as a photo gallery wall. I love that as you come in our home you are greeted with fun family pictures. The kids love to see their pictures on the wall also.
Thanks for all your ideas you share.

[Amanda]

Absolutely LOVE the idea of framing photobooth pictures. So cute! I would love to fill these frames with recent "school" pictures of our 3 year old boys. Lovely!!

[toviah]

I take so many photos of my son, Zach. Hundreds. And I rarely print them for myself I captured this one last evening and it has to be framed.

http://lastlight.squarespace.com/storage/IMG_7937.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1245716878510

[Kirsten]

I'm great about putting photos in albums, but not about putting them on the wall. I still have photos of my daughter at age 6 or 7 on the wall (she's 14...almost 15). And I keep meaning to stop at the photo booth downtown...for a long time now. Sigh...

So what's motivating me to print some photos to hang up is a set of prints that I just bought on Etsy from a "professional" photographer that I just don't love. It made me realize that my photos are pretty darn great! It was a fear of them not being good enough that kept me from hanging them. Took an expensive lesson to tell me otherwise.

[summer]

I have been taking digital pictures on one camera or another for just over 3 years, since my eldest daughter was born. I have exactly 25 printed on bad paper, cheaply, in 4x6 matte. I think until recently I didn't think my photos were quality enough to waste the money on a print. I have had my mind changed recently by a good friend.
Any suggestions on where to get quality prints that don't break the bank?

[Cherie]

my niece newly married just bought a house and wanted to put photos I have taken on her wall we did 9
photos in glass clip frames all hung together she choose 9x9 . It looked great and inspired me to hang some of my own photos in my home.

[sonja]

what a great idea. I have so so many photo booth strips that this could be a cool project.

[Mami Dearest]

I'm have tons of pictures I want to frame, just need to get around to doing it.

[Bridge]

I had to put this photo on a canvas, to always remind me of the magic I captured in the desert after a rain
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ridethewavesoflife/2533432171/in/set-72157606878086200/
and this of my beloved grandparents
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ridethewavesoflife/2542130588/in/set-72157606878086200/

[Mrs Soup]

I had a little photoshoot with my daughter. The lighting was perfect, she was happy and the pictures turned out amazing. I just had to get them off the computer, onto paper and up onto our wall. We now have a huge collage looking down at us while we sit at our computers.

[Trude]

My photos from my most recent trip to Norway - I was born there and moved to the States when I was a kid, and half my family lives there. It was my first trip there with a dSLR and I really went hog wild capturing all the things I love about it! I printed out my favorite shots and framed a few too. I never get tired of looking at them! :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trudem/sets/72157606071039586/

[Sara]

I saw a post that someone had done of a photo wall. It's so lovely that I'm planning on doing this in the upstairs hallway since it's open to the downstairs living room. Since we have 5 kids between us I'll probably make mine wider (maybe 5x3?).

http://amycoffeyphotography.com/wordpress/?p=268

[Wayfaring Wanderer]

It's sad that I am so lucky to have a live-in framemaker, but rarely utilize his talents. Of course, he is a bit lazy at times :)

[Kelly D.]

As a photographer, I'm always behind the camera. When my best friend and fellow photographer, who lives clear across the country, came to visit I made sure I snagged her for a couple of hours. She took some gorgeous family portraits for us ... a first for our family. My favorite photo is now my facebook profile pic, a large canvas on our wall and has served as a gift three times over, so far. I love all the shots from this session and the fact that a dear friend took the pictures makes them even better.

[hi kooky]

LOVE the photobooth portraits. Fantastic.

[Buttercupyaya]

maybe this is the kick in the butt i needed to get the photos updatd in our hallway. i intended to keep them black and white and updated every year. yeah...they are about 5 years old now so i guess i am a bit behind. thanks for the inspiration.

[Puna]

I'm hoping that lighting strikes twice and I win again:)

http://lifesignatures.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/iddoitagain/

[Jody]

I finally got off my keister and printed 3 of my works to hang at home. It's so satisfying to see the fruits of your labor up to enjoy all the time!

I just got a few photo's printed in metalic paper too and yummmm they look Great! I'm so glad I made the leap of faith =)

[Patty Reiser]

A few years ago I went to Joshua Tree National Park after a surprise March snow storm and took a black and white photo (see #7 from link below) that many people loved so I had it blown up, framed and now it is proudly displayed on a wall right by my front door. So if there is a picture that I get alot of positive feedback from or one I really love, I frame it and display it proudly.

http://camerapatty.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/potd-there-are-thirteen-of-them-actually/

Wishing you a scent-sational day!

[Cindie E]

I had to make myself get into the habit of printing my digital photos regularly... I update collage photo frames around the house so that we have recent photos on display

[rachael s]

since my triplets were born in 2007, i hadn't printed a single photo until very recently. they just kept adding up + the amount of photos was daunting so i just left them on my hard drive. and then i opened up a print shop, which required me to begin printing them + now i do so every month or so. i still haven't printed every last image, but i choose a few favorites and those are the ones i order.

[Jessica]

Last March my husband and i took our daughter on her first trip to Disney World, a place that we love and the place where she was concieved. I took so many pictures it was hard to go through them all and even harder to pick out just a few that I wanted to frame. Then a few months later, when I still had not made any decisions, Shutterfly had a sale on their photobooks and I thought that was the perfect solution. I made a book with all of the best pictures and ordered two copies, one for my daughters room and one to keep with all of the other photobooks I have collected. It was perfect. Of course with this frame I could download them in her and left them cycle through, that would be awesome!

[NEC]

What an awesome idea! I am in the very bad habit of not printing anything out... I need to start again!

[melissa]

love the frames. my big project at the moment is printing enough big pics for a collection on an empty wall at top of stairs.

[Gail]

I'm terrible about printing out my favorite pics...I have to start doing that! I did finally make a photo book of a trip to Florida I took with my sister and cousin this winter and love how it came out...

[Mariella]

Love this idea!!

[Terra Dawn Photography]

Awww!!! I love this shot!!! What a great idea!! I wish we had an Aaron's in VA. I would totally take advantage of that sale. lol.

[dawn]

all the pictures of my kids are so outdated - my friend's 3 yr old couldnt recognize them!