Eco-Friendly Photo Albums Don't Damage Pictures

When I was a small boy back in the 50s, I remember my parents periodically bringing out the ugly old black photo albums with the ancient black-and-white photos of their parents, grandparents, and others surrounded by Model T's. and wearing funny clothes like on Little House on the Prairie. They were all held in place by little black stick-on corners, but the pictuers looked like new. Then, we got modern, and things changed.

For years now, we of the modern age have been blissfully putting our photos in albums with plastic pages, Now we are finding that the photos, over a period of years, are being damaged by something in the plastic called polyvinyl chlorides, or PVCs. These chemicals drain the colors from the photos over the years, which is really tragic, since many of the pictures we have in albums stashed away all over our homes are unable to be replaced with an on-file negative. Sure, they can be taken to a camera store, and restored one by one, but the cost for that would become outrageous very quickly.

So, what can be done? There are several routes to take, but both require quick action. One is to move the photos to albums which verify that their pages are photo safe, that is, free of polyvinyl chlorides, while the other is to look for albums which have paper pages. None of this is very fun, but once the work is done, it will ensure that your photos will be safe for generations to come.

Eco-Friendly Photo Albums - New Style in Photography

In recent years on the Internet, and in a select few stores across the country, a fairly new product is starting to catch on with customers. That product is eco-friendly photo albums. Their popularity probably started with the proverbial tree huggers. Then it expanded its popularity base over a period of time to include those who also recycle their trash, and who don't like to litter. Now, it seems that it's going a bit more mainstream, in that people of all walks of life and background are starting to see the beauty of these unique photo albums, and are buying them, not necessarily for their eco-friendliness, but just because they look nicer by far than the run-of-the-mill photo albums available in the country at large.

These beautiful organic photo albums are a really nice choice for anyone, regardless of where they stand on the issues relating to the environment. The thing that makes them eco-friendly photo albums is that they are made by hand instead of being manufactured on an assembly line basis. Most of them are also made using items unchanged during their construction. The parts are used as is. Another factor is that the great majority of them are assembled in some tropical country in the world, so these items are available right in the neighborhood. In many cases, they are found right outside the door of the workshop. In most cases, if not all, bamboo is used, but also found would be various types of seeds and leaves, maybe flowers, and other raw materials. What I have noticed in the ones I have had the opportunity to examine in person is that there are very slight differences in even two albums of the same size and design, because of slight differences in the items used.

What I mean is that no two pieces of plant material are exactly the same, whether trees in a forest, pieces of lumber in a lumberyard, or flowers in your yard. They are all as unique as a fingerprint. Thus, each is, for all intents and purposes, a one-of-a-kind work of art.

I invite you to Google it today, and find out if what I am saying isn't true. I'm sure you will find out that it was time well spent.