Today, is day 4 of the party prepping. I have decided to devote it to pictures.
My dad has always been a huge fan of enlarging photos. One visit to my parents house and you will notice the poster size pictures that are hung around the entire house. I went around his house and counted the number of photos my dad has enlarged. As of today, April 30th 2013, he has 41 enlarged framed poster size photographs.
F O R T Y - O N E !!
Normally when you frame photos for hanging around the house, you pick the best one. If you're going to enlarge a photo to 24" x 36", the photo is better than the best, otherwise why make it gigantic?
My dad does not agree with that statement.
There are many photos that one or more of us have scowls or are just not happy to be photographed at that moment, and he chose to enlarge them anyway.
There are many photos that one or more of us have scowls or are just not happy to be photographed at that moment, and he chose to enlarge them anyway.
Sorry about that rant. My point is, with my dad loving photographs so much, I wanted to do something special with the photos I've managed to find of my parents. This involved going through many many photo albums and weeding through the thousands of family photos that are in there. I managed to find 200 photos of them where about 90% were just them. After scanning them, I wasn't sure what to do with them. Scouring pinterest didn't seem to help much. There were so many photos, I wasn't sure what to do short of a slideshow, and even then, it would have to be really long to add all the photos. Of course, I did have the option of cutting some pictures out of there, but this is 40 years of memories, I didn't want to short change them.
Sometimes I stress out about trivial things, like photo collages.
I finally decided on a photo mosaic. I took one of their wedding photos as the base, and using this great website, Easy Moza, I was able to create an awesome mosaic for them using all the 200 photos.
You can download a hi-res photo of what you created for $5.95. Channeling my dad, I enlarged the photo to 24" x 36" at Costco. Make that 42 poster-size photos in his house now.
I finally decided on a photo mosaic. I took one of their wedding photos as the base, and using this great website, Easy Moza, I was able to create an awesome mosaic for them using all the 200 photos.
You can download a hi-res photo of what you created for $5.95. Channeling my dad, I enlarged the photo to 24" x 36" at Costco. Make that 42 poster-size photos in his house now.
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