I recently came across a competition being organised by John Lewis. The challenge was to post a picture of your most treasured possession with a six word story. I thought long and hard about the possessions I couldn’t live without. I found this quite difficult. Everything I thought of, I realised I would not be distraught if I no longer had it. Then it dawned on me the one thing I couldn’t live without are my photographs. Photographs to me are magical, they capture happiness and on occassions sadness. They can trigger memories of people and places. They can transport you back in time and remind you of times loved and past. They can show you how far you have come.
Here are a collection of photo’s that mean a lot to me.
This is Baby’s first ever photograph! Taken at 7 weeks and 6 days. It took lot’s of tears and heart ache to get to this point, to be pregnant finally.
I cannot describe how special it was to see this little blob and see it flicker.
Baby’s next appearance at 13 weeks. Amazing the growth that takes place in 5-6 weeks.
So for the purposes of the competition, my six word story is; My photographs, past, present, making memories.
If you would like to enter the competition and be in with a chance to win £500 of John Lewis vouchers, you can find out more here. What is your most treasured possession?
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What a wonderful response to the question – photos capture memories and evoke so many feelings, don’t they? I haven’t printed any out since the end of 2011 so I really need to print some new ones to have around the house!
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Thank you. I do too! x
Oh I’m SO with you on this one! Photos are so important 🙂 We spent many years TTC after #1 and our early scan pictures are special too. I’m so pleased someone told me to scan them into the computer – ad they fade quite quickly!
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I didn’t know they faded, have put them in a book, but must check them x
Photos are very important! Nothing captures memories better than them 😉 I have loads of them on my mobile and laptop, have to start printing them 😉
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I need to start putting them up x
aaw, lovely pictures, im not a big fan to be on one or to take any, but i like those with me when i didnt know picture was taken, im sure i will take lots of photos of my baby though
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I don’t like having my picture taken, but do like to have them for Baby (showing us together) x
What lovely pictures, you cant beat having them can you. They can trigger so many memories too xx
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Thank you xx
Photos are my thing as well – love them x Thanks for sharing yours x
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I think I take too many! x
I just did a blog post last week with some memory’s on some happy and some sad its nice to look back .x
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I couldn’t cope without my pictures x
Couldn’t agree with you more. Due to a very tragic death of my PC about 4 years ago, I lost all photos prior to 2010. Thanks to drop box, this won’t happen again but boy it was devastating at the time!
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Oh that must have been awful x
What cute pictures of your most treasured possession. She is adoreable!
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Thank you x
what a lovely photos!
I think mine is my family!
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Oh mine would be, but I don’t class them as possessions x
I’ve still got the scan pictures from both Joseph and the twins pregnancies and they will be treasure until I’m no longer here. Pictures are like memories, priceless x
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They definitely are x
i have to agree with you that those are the best answers i could think of, fabulous hun x
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Thank you. I don’t know what I would do without my photos x
I cherish each and every photography I have and the ones of my family with my mum and dad even more
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They are priceless x
This is a great choice!
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Thanks x
I think photos really are the most valuable and irreplaceable thing, they hold so many memories! Lovely photo you have there. Good luck in the competition
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Thank you x
I love scan pictures, think I still have my positive wee sticks too!!!
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I had a picture of my positive test, but my phone ate them 🙁 x
Photos are so valuable and precious aren’t they – I am particularly fond of my scan photos too. A lovely selection of photos and a great post.
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Thanks very much x
I love my photos, so special. I treasure my first scan photo too xx
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So precious x
Photographs are such a treasure and yet with the arrival of digital photographs I find that we don’t print, share and display our pictures as much as we used to. There used to be just 12 or 24 pictures from a holiday and those choice pictures were very special. Now having the ability to take hundreds of pictures we rarely take the time to sort, edit, print and put in an album. Your scan pictures are of course the exception to that. You only get one or two usually and they are so, so precious x
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Yes you are right. I have thousands of photos, yet only a couple on the wall x
What a wonderful story and pictures to illustrate it – pictures really can tell 1000 words and carry with them so many beautiful memories. x
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Thank you x
Photos are my treasured possessions too and I would be devastated if we lost any
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Me too, I keep forgetting to back them up, must do it x
A few months ago I was devastated that I might have lost pictures from our Disneyland Paris holiday, thankfully I found them again!!!
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That was lucky x
I’m with you, I couldn’t live without my photos. They mean everything to me.
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They are so very important x
photos are defiantly top of my list, we are lucky now in a digital age we are not so at a risk of loosing all these memories! x
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Yes thankfully x
AWWh I lost some photos some years ago when a computer went rogue I now back them up.
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I need to start doing that regularly x
Awww what beautiful photos and fab scan pictures too 🙂 Lovely post, I hope you win x
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Thank you very much x
I love photos and have literally thousands and thousands of them!
Good luck x
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Thank you Cass x
I love my scan photo’s – I have 2 excellent ones with baby no.4 sucking his thumb and sticking out his tongue. But they’re online now, they’re safe, they’re in 2 places and unlikely to be completely lost 🙂
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Aw, yes they need to be safe x