Seeing as I’ve had several questions about what I do with all my photos, especially my travel photos & I left out for LA last night, headed home tonight on the red-eye, I thought it would be a good time to share how I display travel art in our house.
I started out very modestly, with a very basic camera on our Greece & Italy trip in 2005. I simply had some prints made and stuck them in a frame- one for each country. These are just scenery photos- none of us together. I really should get them blown up larger now that we have the room.
My most favorite place for sharing all our travel photos is these two spiral collage frame with a photo of us together in each of the major cities/countries we’ve visited.
I adore adore adore this. It’s pictures of us doing our thing- seeing the world, setting off on so many adventures, making so many memories.
Since all the frames are full, I’m going to have to start taking down my least favorite- but it will be hard to choose! I think I will replace the ones of us in the U.S. first (top photo is in Miami in 2003).
My first really good photos I took were on our Brazil & Argentina trip. We had one photo from each place we visited (Buenos Aires, Rio, Iguazu Falls & Parati) enlarged into a beautiful canvas that we brought from our other house to hang in our dining room.
For our trip to South Africa, we ended up falling in love with this amazing painting in Johannesburg.
I do enjoy having my photos, but there’s only so many collage and canvases we can put up around our house. We both just adored this piece & thought it would be a great memento from our trip.
I’d been stalking a few amazing iron-work pieces for over our bed in our old house, but I decided to go with a canvas from our trip to Cozumel- where the sense of tranquility and relaxation penetrated from the brilliant blue colors of the ocean.
As for the thousands of photos I take on each big trip, they all go into a My Publisher book. I also make a separate book for each year we are married, scrap-booking all our memories and milestones.
And then I make a separate, more detailed book containing all the details & stunning photos from our trips. We still dig them out occasionally and flip through them- enjoying the few minutes we travel back to the wonderful and special vacation moments and our shared history of exploring the world together.
GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: Catching a red-eye home from LA & should be landing any minute.
Oh my goodness, I LOVELOVELOVE how you’ve displayed all of your photos and that you make a photo book from each year. I may have to steal that idea….
Thanks! They are really easy & a great way to do something with all those photos everybody takes on vacation
That is some seriously amazing art! You take fantastic photos and then display them so beautifully! Love them all!
Aw- thank you so much!