It’s hard to believe that there was ever a time in human history when we couldn’t preserve our memories, and even our feelings, using photographs, much less personalised canvas prints. The advent of the personal photograph is perhaps one of the most transformative events in human history, as it has allowed us all to take control of our own legacies and record our lives in a way people were never able to previously – and the ability to then create photos on canvas to make our photos even more powerful and significant is just the latest advance.
The problem with photos, of course, is their ubiquity – unlike personalised canvas prints, they’re usually small, portable, and easily lost or forgotten. Think about the sheer number of photos on your smartphone right now, or the boxes full of photo prints you have stuffed under your bed. Over the course of years or decades they become disorganised and impossible to appreciate properly, and when you want to see one moment out of your life it’s often a laborious task to try and sift through them all to find that one shot you’re thinking of. You know what solves that problem? Custom Canvas Prints.
Personalised Canvas Prints to Make the Most of Precious Memories
There are plenty of reasons to mark the major memories of your life with photo canvas prints:
- Impact: The size and scale of custom canvas prints reflect the importance of the occasion. Instead of 500 blurry smartphone pictures that get buried under the next 500 you take a week later, you have one or two truly awesome pieces of art that can’t be easily lost or ignored. With them hanging on your wall, you’ll be reminded of those moments every single day.
- Shareable: Yes, you can email a million pictures to your friends to mark a moment, and they will sit in Inboxes forever, slowly forgotten. Or you can give someone a simple photo print, and they will treasure it even as it slowly sinks to the bottom of a drawer and finally is accidentally tossed into the trash during a spring clean. But a canvas print of a shared memory given to a favoured room-mate as a moving away gift, or to a teacher who changed your life in school, is something that can’t get lost, because it asserts itself, and it declares the power of the emotion and the memory.
- Durable: Digital photos can be corrupted or erased – a single hard drive crash can leave you with half your memories destroyed. Regular photo prints can be lost, thrown away or damaged easily. Canvas prints are durable and long-lasting. For extra points, go for aluminium prints and get waterproof, weather-resistant memories to go!
It’s a natural instinct to preserve and mark special times in our lives with imagery. The cave men had to paint on walls to do it – we can snap a picture with our phones. But the ease of capturing the moment belies the ease with which we can forget the moment – and the photo. Photos on canvas to the rescue!
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