Save Your Photos Day – September 24, 2023, history significance why we celebrate
Save Your Photos Day is celebrated on the last Saturday of September every year, falling on September 24 this year. This was an initiative by the Save Your Photos Alliance, conceptualized by The Association of Personal Photo Organizers. Photos help us preserve our precious memories and look back at them but very often, we forget to preserve the photos themselves.
Photos can get misplaced, deleted, or damaged at any moment. They do not last forever if left without any care. Save Your Photos Day aims to remind us just how essential preserving our photos is because that’s all that gets left behind as time goes by.
History of Save Your Photos Day
Save Your Photos Day was started with the purpose of educating people on the ways to organize, share, and protect their memories from being lost to accidents and mishaps of all sizes.
What it means to save your photos has changed as time and technology have advanced, it used to mean keeping them in a safe weatherproof case high above the ground so they could be protected from floodwater.
Now there are tons of options to protect your photographic memorabilia, and Save Your Photos Day reminds you to take that extra time to keep them safe.
The Save Your Photos Alliance is a huge supporter of Save Your Photos Day, and helps to provide information and techniques of storing and protecting your photos.
They also organize events to bring together photo enthusiasts to raise money for charities including Alzheimer’s organizations. After all, what better way to fight a disease that destroys memories than by protecting them in a form that the disease can’t touch?
SAVE YOUR PHOTOS DAY TIMELINE
1816
Heliography is Created
It is the first type of photography that forms images using sunlight and a camera prototype called the Camera Obscura.
1830s
The Word Photography is First Used
Derived from Greek, the word is allegedly coined by the British scientist Sir John Herschel.
1837
Daguerreotype Becomes Popular in America
Is a more advanced type of photography than its predecessor quickly gains popularity.
1935
Kodak Introduces Color Photos
Marks the birth of a new era in photography with the use of colors from different kinds of dye in film.
1975
The First Digital Camera is Invented
Steve Sasson, an employee of Kodak, invents the world’s first digital camera.
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5 CAPTIVATING FACTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY
The first color photograph was taken in 1861
Suggested by Thomas Sutton, the color image was created by layering three separate images of red, green, and blue filters and projecting them onto a photosensitive plate.
The most viewed photograph of all time
The default Windows XP picture taken by Charles O’Rear in 1996 is the most viewed photograph in history.
Cat photos are not a current trend
Cat photos are one of the most popular Google searches now but they actually originated in the 19th century.
The earliest photograph is 200 years old
The photo called “View from the window” was taken by Joseph Niepce almost 200 years ago and it took eight hours to capture.
Coffee can be used to develop negatives
Black and white negatives can be developed using coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda.
How to celebrate Save Your Photos Day
The first thing you want to do is get all of your photos organized, everything from your digital images to your oldest Polaroid’s, and start looking into ways to protect them.
One of the ways that’s strongly suggested is to digitize all your photos, you can do this by setting up a special photography rig to take clear, complete photos of your images. Once they’re in digital format you can take them and upload them to one of a wide variety of cloud storage options.
Google has free cloud storage up to a certain amount, and really reasonable rates on getting larger storage when you’ve used all that up. Also, photos were meant to be shared, so get together with your friends and family and share the stories in your photos, introduce people to family members or friends that they haven’t met or haven’t seen in years, and take a walk down memory lane.
Save Your Photos Day is also about saving your memories, and memories are best saved by being shared.
