Printing Enjoyment

You will likely recall that I no longer display my prints after recently taking them down from the hair salon and donating them to the women's interval home. I don't know what has become of them, but that's okay.

Part of the reason has been the degradation of my printer which continues to put down splotches in the margins. I can't sell prints like that.

But I still like to print for myself although I haven't done it very often for about three years. I don't mind a few smudges on a print that is strictly for my own use.

So it was, that I was looking back at PJ's visit last month. I edited a few photos a bit, and then decided to go ahead and print one of me with my two, middle-aged children.

It printed really well for a phone shot. Let me amend that and just say that it printed up very well. As I sometimes do with prints, I held it up and asked Sue to take a picture.

I did that yesterday morning. Last evening, I looked through the folder again and found one of Sue with our kids in the same location. After faffing about with the image for awhile, I decided to also print it as well, but I don't have a photo of me holding it. For one thing, Sue was in bed when I printed it last night, and, for another thing, she's still in bed at the moment. You can see that I signed this one because it is my work from camera to print. The other one was Sue's image; I just did a wee bit of editing and the printing.

Now I must tell you that I just bought myself a wonderful Christmas gift — a new printer. It was on sale but is still in transit. Meanwhile, I thought I might as well use up some of the ink in the old printer seeing as it costs a small fortune.

Oddly enough, I still don't plan to exhibit or sell my prints, for I have been there and done that and a lowly photographer of my ilk would never sell many anyway. People's walls are pretty well full, so there's not a great demand for photos. Even I, as a photographer of sorts, have neither the desire nor the wall space to purchase prints from the professional photographers that I admire.

But I can and will now, once again, be able to continue to print photos that I like for my own enjoyment, for there is just something about a print that is more satisfying than in viewing an image on screen.

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In passing, let me answer Beatrice about how I made collages from my tablet (see previous post). I used a program called PS Express, which has all sorts of collage templates as well as other editing capabilities. She does all of her work on her iPhone and iPad and discovered this program. After playing with the free version for a few months, she purchased the full version for the cost of $50/year. It accesses whatever is already automatically on her camera toll.