Scanning Old Photos, A Trip Down Memory Lane.

My mom and dad (especially my mother) took a lot of pictures over the years, and after they passed away, I had a whole box of old pictures and photo albums she had made. The albums were the old style with black heavy paper and the pictures were glued in.
Eventually, I gave a lot of the pictures to my kids, and the last batch I gave to Robin before I had the heart operation.
Since I belong to a couple of Facebook groups for old pictures, I have been wanting to look at the pictures again and scan some of them into the ipad and post them into the group . Robin brought me the containers with the old pictures, and I downloaded the. Heirloom scanning app (which was free) onto the iphone and the ipad, and have spent the last few days looking through the photos and scanning them in.
Now that I have seen them all, I am going to go back through everything again and try to organize it all before I give it back to Robin to keep. I have uploaded the photos to my Flickr app, and arranging them into albums of the different times and areas where the pictures were taken.
Some are way back into the 1920's when my folks were first married and moved to California, and others are from when I was growing up, and some of the newer ones are pictures that I took when my kids were younger.
It has been a lot of fun looking at the old pictures again, and I actually have a better timeline on the family history then I had before.
Here I am in my "Dale Evans" cowgirl outfit.

 

We have a printer/scanner too, @Cody Fousnaugh ; but it takes a while to scan each picture using the scanner. Since I didn't need the picture to be "scanner-perfect" quality , I decided to just use a scanner app and quickly scan the pictures with my iphone. There are quite a few of these apps available, but most of them cost money, and some need a yearly subscription in order to scan unlimited photos and save them online.
The Heirloom app was free, and it is easy to use; plus by putting the photos on my Flickr page, it is easy for me to share them with my family and friends.
I still have a lot more that I will scan and upload a bit at a time as I go back through the pictures and sort them by place and date.

 

Yes, it is awesome to be able to put the pictures up on the television, and we sometimes do that as well. We have an older model Apple TV box, and it will show my camera roll as the screensaver on the television, so it scrolls through the pictures, or you can set it to show an ever-changing collage of the different photos.
We can also use AirPlay to put single photos up on the television screen; but normally, we just use the ipads to look at the pictures, and I can edit them with photo-editing apps on the ipad.
Photo sharing has certainly come a long ways from the days when my mom ordered several copies of prints to be able to mail them to family or friends, and pasted the ones she wanted to keep into her photo scrapbook.