Amsterdam Houses – Copyright Andrew Hayes

A post this week slightly off topic, but I could not resist sharing this interesting find. If you are like me and travelled a lot before the dawn of digital cameras, you have hundreds of photographs stuffed underneath your bed, unorganised, only flipped through on the random occasion. Scanning them and organising them would just be too much work. But now, scanmyphotos.com offers to take that job off your hands. For US$49.95 they will scan up to 1,000 photos onto a DVD (plus shipping) – anything from Polaroid sized pictures up to shots of 11×14.

There are a few ‘pre-requisites’: you must sort and organise your photos before sending them. The instructions are fairly detailed, but only you know which photos belong to which travel trip, so it seems like a fair request.

I can see where this would be pretty handy especially if you are feeling overwhelmed by that growing pile of aging film. Having said that, I might suggest you choose a traceable shipping service before putting all of your precious memories into the post. To order go to the international page of the scanmyphotos.com website.

I am curious to hear from our readers – would you use such a service?