#10 Will your grand kids know what a Photograph is

Rainy Tuesday friends, which is better then snowy Tuesday or icy Tuesday, but the kids get another day off to terrorize the Internet.

Digital cameras certainly have changed how we immortalize ourselves. We've moved a long way from painting our favorite horse or pet on the cave walls! We now can take thousands of pictures on our vacation and sort through them later to make a spectacular slide show that not many people want to see. Most people still print out their pictures, but I think that is just a throw back to wanting to have a photo album to pull out when the relatives drop by. Mainly because the owners of the pictures aren't sure how to make that slide show thing work on their PC.

Youngsters get digital pictures. They use online sites, like Shutterfly, Snapfish and Webspots to share their pictures with friends. They place their pictures on their MySpace or Facebook page for all to see (much to the chagrin of any parent who finds that site!). They have pictures they take with their phones immediately send to friends to share then delete them just as fast.

So I come back to my title question: Will your grandkids know what a photograph is? Will Kodak still be pumping out 8x10 glossy prints to put on your wall? Chances are very good that no is the answer to both questions. If you need to print out a picture, most inkjet printers put out decent photo quality prints. You can carry your favorite photos around in your cell phone or flash memory drive and still show your co workers how cute little Fang is. (assuming you have a real pet not a digital one!)

Keep those umbrellas handy!