Save your photos tomorrow in Apopka

We all have old pre-digital photos around the house, right? It is time to check your closet, garage and attic because Saturday is Save Your Photos Day in Apopka!

In conjunction with the Museum of the Apopkans, E-Z Photo Scan is holding a Save Your Photos Day event for Apopkans from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, tomorrow, September 24th at the Museum of the Apopkans.

Use this link if you are not sure where the museum is located.

You can have up to 100 photos (or 35mm slides), scanned for free during the event. You will also learn how to organize and preserve your treasured photos.

The Save Your Photos initiative is a public service outreach campaign developed by The Association of Personal Photo Organizers (APPO) to teach individuals how they can preserve life’s irreplaceable photos, videos and documents, in case of unforeseen accident or disaster.

Who are the Photo Organizers?

The Photo Organizers are a community of independent business owners who offer a vast knowledge of information on photo creation, organization and management services. The services can range from helping clients organize their varies photo collections to scanning old photos to large projects of cataloging a life’s worth of photos and everything in-between.

E-Z Photo Scan, the leading marketer of desktop photo-scanning systems and a proud sponsor of the Save Your Photos Alliance, reminds everyone the 3rd Annual International Save Your Photos Month is September 2016. The month-long celebration of family history and stories offers numerous events to learn how to preserve photos and documents for posterity.

“In the three years of annual Save Your Photos activities, nearly 200,000 images have been preserved at these events,” says Richard “Rick“ Lippert, president, E-Z Photo Scan. “From natural disasters to negligence, family photos are being lost to future generations. The Save Your Photos Alliance is dedicated to raising awareness of the problem.”

Lippert adds the need to preserve family photos goes beyond simply scanning old photos. Today’s consumers are capturing more personal photos than ever, and these photos also need to be preserved.

“InfoTrends estimates 1.2 trillion pictures will be taken worldwide this year,” explains Lippert. “Many families don’t think about preserving those pictures now, for the benefit of families and for future generations. Without a print, it’s important for every family to set aside time to back up and to preserve family photos. That off-the-cuff selfie on your daughter’s iPhone could be a treasured memory in a few years. If that image is not backed up, that’s an irreplaceable loss.”