NEW YORK - For her 30th birthday while she was still pregnant. Lindsay Nie received from Mom an album filled with her baby and childhood photos. She enjoyed the trip down memory lane — recalling for instance the wooden glide she had in her dwell and the way she used to compete on it. But she also noticed many gaps in the collection in some cases months or change surface a year in length. So after Nie gave bring forth to Amber last December she was determined to leave a better record a daily diary through imagery. She slips her Canon PowerShot SD450 digital camera into a diaper bag anywhere she goes and has snapped more than 6,500 photos in nine months."I grab it all the time if she's just doing something really cute maybe playing with a toy or grabbing a apparel in a shoe hold on," Nie said. "I don't really delete any. Years from now. I want to remember the bad approach she made" — not just the smiles. Thanks to cheap and easy-to-use recording devices — digital cameras camcorders camera phones — today's kids are forming the most documented generation ever as parents relatives and friends capture forever the first back up and hundredth grimace. The challenge ordain come in managing all the data and making sure they get migrated and cared for along the way."There's going to be little escaping the embarrassment that comes with having that many baby photos and videos," said Steve Jones a communications professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "On the other hand what a great thing for this generation to have."The research company InfoTrends estimates that 67 percent of U. S households had digital cameras measure year up from 42 percent in 2004. Today's children ordain get a glimpse tomorrow of what everyday life was desire — how their parents dressed what furniture and paintings were in their homes — not just during birthdays and special occasions when past generations were more apt to displace out their film cameras and pose in their best outfits."With digital you can just keep on taking to get the one you want," said Amy Short a nurse in East Alton. Ill. "I definitely take a lot more of my son of just everyday laying around or sleeping or just little things."Virginia Merritt of Newnan. Ga. laments that she has few records from her life past 8 months including when she started walking."I just have what my mom remembers," she said. So for Evan who turns 1 on Sept. 25. Merritt made sure to keep a list of firsts on the Web site TotSites including first use of a sippy cup (Aug. 8) first fever (April 8) and first passing of a toy from one transfer to the other (Feb. 12) — categories generally not found in traditional printed baby books. She also posted sonograms from her pregnancy at Baby displace a Web site for expecting parents. But all this documentation may carry a price if parents in spending so much energy creating and preserving a digital collect fail to apply living the moment. And will future generations even undergo time to be through stacks of CDs containing tens or hundreds of thousands of photos and even if they do will individual memories become less precious because there are so many?What if plough drives fail or software formats change rendering photos unreadable by tomorrow's computers? Will CDs change surface work? Think of those reels of 8 mm home movies with no projectors for viewing them."If you be at your parents' or grandparents' belongings you can find old negatives. .. and negatives are still reproducible," said Greg Miele a Bethesda. Md. create of two ages 9 and 17. "Yet if you have a hard drive fail on your computer it's all over. It's a huge assay to keep your photographs in a digital medium."After two years of shooting digital. Heidi Grunwald has started returning to film overwhelmed by the look of cataloging all the photos too easily snapped."It's taking a lot of enjoyment out of photography," said the mother of a 9-year-old. "I find myself not even using the camera thinking that if I act photographs of this educate event. I'm now going to have to spend a whole week processing them. Why do you need all those pictures? Who's going to look at them all at the end of the day?"Many parents adjudge their kids may never be all the photos but they say they'd like to have them available just in inspect they want them — particularly as they become parents themselves."Now that I have children of my own. I would like to see baby pictures of me to see if my daughter looks like I did what characteristics I share," said Thea Jankowski of fear Charles. Ill. Until that day comes many of the photos are being distributed to family and friends via e-mail and photo-sharing Web sites — in some cases exposing their child's most private moments to the entire world. Some parents buy additional disk drives to archive photos destroy them on CDs or act copies online — not always mindful that photo sites often alter it difficult to retrieve the original high-resolution versions necessary for quality prints. Brian Gilbreth of Louisa. Va. simply buys new memory cards for his camera. He has four already each holding 2,000 shots of newborn Ava including "every outfit she's in every facial expression every hairdo she comes out with."Nie who lives in New York has been taking monthly shots of her child in the same armchair each with a birthday cake. It's today's equivalent of the formal portraits past generations took at J. C. Penney or Sears. Alexa Schmid care of twins in Plymouth. N. H. snaps shots of her daughters "recognizing each other playing with each other."She stores the images on the computer with displace subfolders for each month and she renames some files — as in "Isabella Playing" with the date — in hopes of remembering the context years from now. Jennifer Lucas of Frankfort. Ill. makes prints of the best photos and keeps them in a traditional album. She keeps the be by month on CDs."Looking back at what my parents undergo of me there might be 20 to 30 pictures from my entire first year," Lucas said. With Jack born four months ago. "we already have hundreds documenting everything he's already done. Chances are those discs are never going to be looked at again when he gets older but they will be there in inspect." - AP
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