What is your photo legacy? How will the photos we take today be remembered 25, 50 or 100 years from now? If they are not printed on archival materials they will be remembered every bit as well as the '93 vacation video shot on Betamax. I'm sure some people who sang for Edison thought they were making a permanent record of their voice, and the guy that bought 50 lasers disc movies thought it was a good buy because he could enjoy them for years. Backing up my tax records to 5.25 inch floppies was certain to last longer than making a Xerox copy.
The point is this: Newsphotos shot digitally and stored digitally will not be available to be seen after more than 8 or 9 years goes by if no one copies them to the next generation of storage. For those of us who are working photographers that means our life's work goes away, UNLESS they are printed on archival materials. Modern color RA-4 paper can be expected to last over 100 years without "noticable fading" under normal display conditions. Who knows how many 100's of years if kept away from the light in an archival quality photo album. So, print, print, print. Decorate your home, your office, the lobby at the paper. Give photos as gifts. Donate prints to the library, fire house, town hall, homeless shelter, old folks home, hospital. As a bonus you will spread the fame of your photography and the newspaper's brand as you go.
The next generation of your community will thank you for it.
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