Tip #85: Print Your Work!

Sunrise on Lake Louise - Banff National Park, Canada
Canon 5D markII + Canon 24mm f3.5L TSE

This is a message to the Weekend Warrior, Wannabe Photographer, Blogger, Facebooker, Instagrammer and Twitterati... Print your Pictures! 
Back in the day, making photographs meant creating an artifact... a tangible product, a something that could be held, smelled and passed on. You are not obligated to relive your experiences on a monitor, touch screen or LCD because you trapped light with pixels instead of silver. If you want your memories to get lost on the increasingly tangled web or disappeared by a crashing hard drive, then keep on doing what you've been doing. But, if you want to love your photography and remember the physical experience of being there, make an artifact... and print it out.

Lake Agnes - Banff National Park, Canada
Canon 5D markII + Canon 24mm f3.5L TSE

In a future post, I'll share a few ways to get your work printed and describe my workflow for making fine art prints. Until then, review your files and a select a few precious images that deserve to be passed around and shared with friends.

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