The Compassionate Friends (UK) 5 Remembering through photographs Photos of our child can help us in many different ways. They can evoke fond and precious memories; our child’s birthday, graduation day or first holiday. These special images can be visual reminders of our child’s personality, their sense of humour, the things they loved doing or the people they loved being around. We could: • Frame some photos and display them in our home, either as prints or in a digital photo frame. • Keep digital copies of photos. If so, we might choose to scan our photos onto our computers, maybe set them as our desktop background or save them in a special folder. We can back this up onto a separate drive and/or onto the Cloud, which reduces the risk of losing our precious collection. • Have photos on our mobile phone or other device. We could select a photo to keep as our lock screen or home screen. It’s worth making a separate folder in our phone where we can keep photos of our child so that we can add to it easily. • Make a scrapbook, a collage or a printed photo book. We might want to organise this by themes such as their schooldays, holidays, friends and so on. Meaningful photos do not only have to be of our child, but could be of a meal or craft item they made, their pet, or anything relating to their talents, likes or interests. • Connect the past with the present. We can do this by using a photo with our child in it, and include this picture within the shot when we take a new photo. Some people retake photos that their child was in, such as a photo in the same place, five years later. • Select a series of photos and put them into a slide show format to create a video. • Get items such as blankets, cushions, T-shirts, mugs, fridge magnets made with our child’s photos. These could be for us to use and treasure, or to give as gifts. Useful Links There are a variety of companies that provide services for printing and creating items from photos, ranging from high street shops such as Tesco and Boots, to numerous online companies such as helloprint.co.uk, snapfish.co.uk and many more.
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