It was a great trip, the break we needed, in a totally new landscape, doing the exploring we love. I’m just back from a trip to the desert southwest-a five-night escape with my husband to someplace we’d never been.
They can be small and simple.Īs for how to create a photo story, I’ll use my own example. The stories don’t have to be vast, complicated, fact-filled. A photo story should have intentionality, a story and images (photos, ticket stubs, etc.). Hey, they’re easy ways to share photos and memories, which I love! But they are not photo stories. Slideshows, automatically- or quickly-generated photo books, and Instagram posts aren’t bad things to do. It’s not your collection of Instagram posts. It’s not a photo book automatically created online by an algorithm using the metadata in your pictures (for example, Facebook’s “Happy Friendiversary” videos it makes using the photos of you and someone you interact with on the platform a lot). A photo story is not a slideshow on your computer of all the photos of the past year. To better understand what a photo story is, it can be helpful to understand what a photo story is not. One of the best ways you can tell a photo story is in a photo book. A photo story is the intentional use of pictures and words assembled into a story.
And if you’ve never made a photo story for a photo book, you’re missing out.
It’s the most personal kind of photo gift you can give, the one that doesn’t just remind you of a moment-it retells the moment. It’s more than just a photo book, though a photo book can be used to tell a photo story. A photo story is more than just photos in an album, digital or otherwise.