Why Do I Scrapbook?
Why I scrapbook:
I love taking photographs.
I'm a storyteller.
I love documenting.
All of these things make me a better version of myself.
I love taking pictures. Photos of people, of places, and of things. I love to capture them. The same way that you would capture a butterfly in a net and then release it back into the wild. It's like a hunt -- I've captured it, I was there, I saw it, I have proof -- my proof is right here.
I have proof of all the places that I've been to.
I have proof of all of the bands that I've been to see.
I have proof of the emotions that I love to see in people.
That's one of my favorite reasons to pull out the DSLR and use the prime lens. It's also the reason I use portrait mode on my iPhone.
The ability to capture emotions, and then return to them is literally priceless; and that's why I'm a scrapbooker, a documenter, a memory-keeper -- the keeper of the memories.
Documenting your own personal life, your own personal history, is so important to me. I believe from the bottom of my heart that you are (I am) the best person to tell your own story.
Who else has been there the whole time?
Who else knows everything that you know?
Who else has had all of the experiences?
Knows all the stories?
I scrapbook because there are things I want to return to. Moments, time, places, people, things, feelings. Scrapbooking is a personalized art that lets us capture those moments and return to them whenever we choose.