So you’re going on a big vacation. Why not introduce your child to photography a few weeks before, and use it as a way to get them excited about the trip – while at the same time, giving them a way to store the memories of that trip forever.
According to several recent polls conducted by industry leaders, scrapbooking is one of the fastest growing craft activities.
The latest demographics show the following trends:
- 98% of scrapbookers are females between 30 and 59 years old. Among the age groups who responded to the surveys, scrapbooking, rubber-stamping and paper crafting attract the various generations fairly equally.
The popularity of digital cameras has skyrocketed in recent years. Every event or celebration you go to now has at least several people snapping away. Once you pay for the camera and memory cards, your costs are zero, until you actually have a picture you want to print. You can take 40 pictures of your new child, niece, nephew, grandchild, etc, and if only two good shots came out of that, then you only pay for those two.
Digital cameras have come of age in the last two years. Once a new-fangled way to take pictures that were went up against the standard film cameras in the marketplace and met with consumer resistance, now digital has become the king of the mountain in photography. Digital’s only competition for the consumer’s hearts is the ubiquitous mobile phones equipped with cameras.
Scrapbooking is the art of presenting your photos and memories in ’scrapbooks’ – hence the term scrapbooking. If you have a lot of photos and mementos that have been shoved into drawers, and find it difficult to retrieve them in an orderly manner, then scrapbooking can definitely help you.
So you’re on your dream vacation. Of course, you want to take the best photos you can so you can show them off to friends, put them in your scrapbook, and look back at them years from now. So how do you make your pictures even better than before?
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