How I’ve Been Trying to Make My Theme Park Memories Picture-Perfect

Making moments last from family trips has transformed from the glossy sheen of a photo album filled with memories to a culture of “if it wasn’t shared on social media, then it didn’t happen.” The meaningful joy of putting together visuals of our lives as keepsakes has turned into creating digital displays that can often be more stressful to assemble. When photos and videos just go up on the cloud and aren’t chronicled, that can make it hard to look back even on core pieces of our experiences. My favorite albums growing up were of yearly theme park and museum adventures. Trying to recreate that with my own kid has been quite challenging; the stressors of finding the right filter and vertical shots killing horizontal shots becomes glaringly obvious when you try to put them into photo books. It really has you looking sideways. And don’t get me started on the panic I get from having deteriorating home videos as my drives fill up with videos of my child’s first theme park visits. Before o ... Read full article.