Woke up this morning thinking of photos I like to find (from others or that I didn't remember that I had) to include in my albums. In my family, at least, we tended to take photos on "occasions" (holidays, vacations, family gatherings, etc) unless they were of the cat. But the photos that mean the most to me to find are the ones of folks doing everyday things: mom in the kitchen baking, dad working in his woodworking shop, mom feeding the cat, grandma in the kitchen feeding one of her grandchildren (since I don't have any of her doing that with her own 9 children).
So, just a thought for those of you who like to take pictures as well as when you're choosing photos to scrap . . . think of what folks looking at your albums decades in the future would like to see in them.
For me, I wish my family had more pics of people at their jobs, doing the things I remember them doing (mom making homemade bread, which she did every week when I was growing up; grandma embroidering, since we have enough pillowcases & table covers to start a small store, & that's what I remember her doing; my other grandmother raising 9 children (& not just the posed pics in the yard); etc.
I'm the 4th in my family to have (in my case, attempt to play) the family violin. I was very excited a couple of years ago to find an old photo of my uncle playing (tho, unfortunately, not that particular violin). I'm thankful to my folks, who picked the violin up (from my uncle) to bring to me 7 years ago, for taking pictures of Bill posing with the violin, including playing it. I would dearly love to find photos of my great aunt & her father (my great grandfather) playing it, but am afraid either no one thought to take those photos or they've been lost thru the years. I've never seen any.
Other things to consider are ones that show people interacting with "everyday things" that change with the times. Recently I was looking thru someone else's photos & came across one I wished I had for my family: it was of their grandfather or great-uncle, sitting reading the newspaper with the radio on in the background . . . back in the 1930s. When I was growing up, phones came in either beige or black & were attached to the wall, TVs were b/w & had "rabbit ears" on the top, bicycles had one speed, etc; all that was "normal" for us then, but seems so "quaint" now (& will so even more as the decades pass). So, take a second look at the normal activities of you & your family today, & think what might make an interesting photo for future generations.
Just a few rambling thoughts for a Saturday morning.
Alicia