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Do you keep photos of your relatives who have passed away, those still living, including your children, as well as memorable family events such as weddings, birthdays, etc, on your mantle or in albums at home, or are all your photos just online?

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Although photos are now taken and shared digitally, older photos and prints of digital photos of family members, some living, some passed away, and family meetings are in frames on shelves around the house. My aunt has a wall of family photos.

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NO!

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I print out the ones I like best. If printed, they go into photo albums and the few really good ones get framed and hung up. But still 80% stay in Google Photos.

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There is BD (before digital) and PD (post digital).

I have many physical photos of my family and many albums. My favourite ones I made digital.

Some like my deceased parents are in my day bag.

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I keep a photo of me with all my bothers and sisters - all five of us - on my desk. It was taken on Thanksgiving in 2012, the last time all five of us were together at Mom's before cancer took our big brother. I like to look at it every day and I couldn't do that if it were just a file on the hard drive.

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No

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I really prefer physical photos when I can have them. On my desk, I have a picture of my niece, a picture of my father (who passed away recently) and me when I was a child, a picture of my grandmother and grandfather when they were younger, and a picture of my great grandparents. My ancestors mean a lot to me, so having them here with me so far from where I was born feels meaningful.

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I still have photos, phone numbers, text messages of my dear friends whom I had known for years and were like my extended family.

Both, husband and wife passed away from brain cancer. Both were young.

The woman was like my twin sister and we knew everything about each other.

One thing I no longer do is go for lunch at a very good restaurant where my female friend would meet once a month to catch up with everything that has gone on.

I no longer go to the restaurant as I would now get shivers sitting at a table and not my friend sitting across the table.

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I have taken thousands of photos from the time I was 11 years old and was given an old 1950's-era box camera that used sheet film. I went through four 35mm cameras and too many lenses and filters to count. I still have all the negatives, dozens and dozens of contact sheets, 3x5 prints and about three dozen 8x10s, some of which were published. I've now got my fourth DSLR with an extra and very long lens for nature and space photography. Of all of them, which photos are most important? The ones of family and friends who have passed away or who are still living. They're on the mantle, in photo albums, on the walls of kitchen and home office (especially the ones of Japanese friends and their children). They're all expressions of love. Even the ones I publish online. But that's the main thing - they're expressions of love. That's how real photographers express themselves - through the love of the lens.

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