This is a guest contribution by Rhoda Gordon of Sunflower Photo Solutions.
Are you searching for one more excuse to print out your photos? This is it! I have a great idea that my sweet husband gets all the credit for. When we got married, he suggested we take a family picture each year to hang in our home. This is what we have done for the last 26 years which have become a timeline of our family.
These pictures hang in our study about 6 inches below the ceiling and span all four walls. They march in progression from the first, which is our wedding photo, to the last, which was taken only a few weeks ago. We chose the study because, at the time, this was a room that would be used by all family members. Remember the days of one large, desktop computer? Well, our study still gets a lot of use.
These pictures not only tell the story of our family, but they also are an insight into how capturing images has changed over the years. The first ten years or so we had professional photos shot, then we began to shoot our own because taking quality photos became easier. Hmm, it was either because the digital cameras were introduced, or the fact that we no longer had squirming children. The only thing consistent about the images is the people in them, but I defined a collection by giving them the same look and feel with simple black framing and a consistent size.
It is a wonderful feeling to look back and see how our family has grown, to see the progression of the kids and how my husband and I have aged. Some of the images are posed but as we all have gotten older, more of them are casual and some downright silly. This reflects the personality of our family and how we live our life. This is the timeline of The Gordon Family and I am so happy my husband thought of it!
Rhoda Gordon is the founder of Sunflower Photo Solutions, a photo organizing, scanning, and preservation firm. Photography is in her blood. She comes from a long line of photo and photo equipment enthusiasts going back several generations. She has been organizing photos, creating slideshows and photo books most of her adult life. Now she helps others do the same. Her services include print and digital photo organization, image and document digitization, slideshow and photo book creation, photo restoration, and personal training in all of the aforementioned.
Her career began as an electrical engineer working for AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and more recently, Rhoda has been teaching at Brookdale Community College. She is a certified personal photo organizer and a member of APPO (Association of Personal Photo Organizers). Rhoda is dedicated to her craft and continually takes ongoing education to keep up with the latest technology. She was raised in Monmouth County, graduated from Rutger’s University and currently lives in Freehold, NJ.
Rhoda is a wife and mom of 3 beautiful children; one daughter in graduate school, another one in college, and a son in high school. She loves spending time with them, her wonderful husband and their basset hound, Rambo. She also has found the time to be a committed volunteer for CentraState Medical Center and its foundation since 1995.
Rhoda’s passion is helping others preserve their beautiful memories in a way that they can revisit them again and again. She believes that pictures tell the story of our lives, and that of our families.
Let her help you tell and preserve your story.
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