So you’ve got all those pretty pic­tures from your past vaca­tions, your last hike, that pic­nic with your beloved one in a park or that snap of some dark, dirty, gritty side street of Dub­lin. What do you do with it? Well, you leave it to catch digital dust on your hard drive. Or, if you’re really nice, you’ve made some small 6×4 prints at the chem­ist and sent them to your dad.

But what then? Every time I hold a print of one of my pic­tures in my hands, I think: Gosh, it’s so much dif­fer­ent com­pared to the screen… so much bet­ter! I guess there are a num­ber of obvi­ous reas­ons for that, but I’m sure you’ve also made the exper­i­ence that a “phys­ical” copy of a photo just adds so much more to it, com­pared to see­ing it dis­played on your screen (even if it’s a 24″ mon­ster).

I’ve just spent an hour hanging 10 of my favour­ite pic­tures up at our place, which I’ve moun­ted on some reas­on­ably priced A3 passe-​partouts from eBay. And guess what: All the money and effort get­ting the high qual­ity prints, the tinker­ing with the card board and last but not least the tedi­ous hanging (get­ting them straight, equally spaced, at equal heights) was def­in­itely worth it.

So go ahead, make prints of your best pho­tos, mount them and com­pletely redis­cover them in their new incarn­a­tion!

PS: Here’s the seller’s shop list­ing where I bought the mount­ing equip­ment: You’ll need pic­ture mounts, mount­ing boards and ideally some acid-​free tape to mount the pic­tures prop­erly and them frame them. If you don’t want to frame, you can just glue the stuff together, like I did.