How do You Picture Thanksgiving? Getting Holiday Digital scrapbooking photos!
What does your Thanksgiving look like? What kind of photos do you take at Thanksgiving time?
Does your perfect digital photo for your scrapbooking pages look like a Norman Rockwell painting?
Most likely you have seen (at least a photo of) Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom from Want” painting that first appeared in the 1940’s on The Saturday Evening Post. This painting has burned an image in our minds that our Thanksgiving (Holiday) photos should be taken around the table with the turkey being served.
Many scrappers only take pictures for their scrapbooking project of the Thanksgiving dinner itself, and only capture a small portion of the holiday fun.
While I do admit photos around the table can be a fantastic scrapbooking photo opportunity – it certainly isn’t the only great photography opportunity that Thanksgiving offers!
When looking for photos for digital scrapbooking look for lots of places and times great shots happen. Like before you actually serve the dinner, certainly food preparations add lots of photo opportunities. People roasting, baking, and cooking together. Family and friends laughing together and chatting while cooking. The cooks in their aprons – matching, not matching! New and old recipes made and tried.
For example I made this digital scrapbooking page from photos I took of my daughter making apple candles this was hours before the meal, then I took more images of the apple candles all finished and when she set the table and put the candles out. I didn’t stop there, I finally took a photo of the candle lit and with some of the food being served around it. I liked photos for a scrapbooking theme of the progress of the apple candles. This theme was great digital scrapbooking page to add to my Thanksgiving album a well!
What about taking photos of people watching Holiday Sports?! Children playing and scampering around the house? Teens playing video games – gaming is getting very interesting to watch these days as people are standing up and moving all around to play – these activities offer some interesting photos! Happy holiday memories happen all over the place and it is great to capture more of the fun so you can put these things in the scrapbooking pages too!
What about taking photos of “Thanksgiving firsts” for your scrapbooking projects. For example, a new baby’s first Thanksgiving, a daughter/son’s first time to cook the turkey, and a grandfather’s first time to play Wii or other video games! The scrapper should take some pictures of these “firsts” and put the photos into a scrapbooking album of Thanksgiving “firsts”!
In this image, I scrapped my daughter and son-in-law’s first Thanksgiving they hosted! It was so much fun – read about it and Turkey ideas in this blog: Let’s Talk Turkey! Digital Scrapbooking the Turkey Experience!
Here are some extra tips for Taking Thanksgiving photos:
- Make sure your digital camera’s battery is charged
- If you will be busy – leave disposable cameras around to get others to help with the picture taking too!
- Give a teenager a camera and a list of photos to look for and ask them to make sure and cover this events
Don’t forget to get some good Thanksgiving Digital Scrapbooking supplies to make the digital scrapbooking pages after Thanksgiving!
Here are some Thanksgiving Scrap Kit Ideas:
Like this scrap kit – The Autumn Days Digital Scrapbooking Kit features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful autumn-inspired digital papers, embellishments, WordArt, bows, and more!
Even though you can’t hang onto autumn forever, you can hang onto special autumn memories with a coordinating digital scrapbooking kit! Use this kit to scrap all of your Thanksgiving traditions! Paper size is 12×12"
Or try this kit: The Fall Colored Leaves Digital Scrapbooking Kit is a full-featured digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful fall-inspired digital papers, embellishments, WordArt, and more! Use this kit to digitally scrap many fall-inspired events, including Thanksgiving! Paper size is 12×12"
Get other Thanksgiving Scrap Kits and Supplies at the Scrap Shop.
Enjoy!
Cheri
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