Do you use only YOUR OWN photos on LOs?

[Camicar]

We were having this discussion recently about scrapbooking, particularly about vacation scrapbooking.

If you do not have enough or the right photos of a place for a LO, do you just say, "Too bad, so sad"? Or do you do a google search, find some on the internet and print them out for your scrapbook pages?

We found that some of us feel that all of the photos have to be ones they've taken. While some of us feel that a photo of, say, the Epcot ball is so generic that what difference does it make if you had to get it from elsewhere?

What do you all think/do?

[Yzerbear19]

I've "borrowed" pictures before. There are some wonderful DISers here who have shared there photos with me. With some of my historical layouts I've found pictures from the Library of Congress of the actual sight, etc to blend it with my own photos.

[Faerie]

I also love Postcards for "borrowed" pictures.

[PrincessNancy96]

I have borrowed photos before.. especially if its a shot that is just perfect for the LO...

[BernardandMissBianca]

borrower and lender. DH is obsessed with his camera so we have tons of pics. I love to share!

[bobcat]

I don't thik I have ever borrowed a photo but I wouldn't hesitate to use one if I needed. In fact once I start on some of our older picture, before my digital camera, I think I will need to find some fillers.

[hopemax]

I haven't had to use other people's photos yet, but I'm not against them. Especially for some place that I know I'm never going to get back to. I also buy postcards to use in place of photos, so using someone else's photo seems like the same thing to me. The purpose of scrapping, IMO, is to remember all the great memories, and it seems silly not to document something because my photo didn't come out or I forgot to take the photo. And having a picture of something is a better memory jogger, for me, than just journaling.

[Fran98765]

I've borrowed. Thank you Mark Barbieri! :)

[Camicar]

Thanks everyone!

As for me -- yes, I've borrowed. I started to do it when Walgreen's ruined an entire roll of film and I at least wanted some location shots of a vacation.

I also use a little tiny punched star or circle to indicate which photos are mine in a LO. (Too many years as a footnote checker, I guess -- wanting to give appropriate credit!)

[BoardwalkBabe]

I purchase a lot of postcards and hopefully the cover the gap when it comes to needing a photo.

[pjlla]

Just twice on Disney LO's did I "borrow" a photo (hard to get photos of SpectroMagic and Fantasmic). And it drives my DD crazy! Everytime she looks at the page she reminds me that it is not "our" picture and that we "stole" it :rolleyes: . I'm not sure why it bothers her so much.... we did see the parade and show.... but our pictures weren't great. It's not like I am suggesting that we saw something that we didn't. Oh well.... maybe as she gets older she will forget that I didn't actually "take" those photos......P

[fireplug]

I use LOTS of post cards in my layouts. I like how they accent my photos. I have used generic pics from the net too when I need a background shot.


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[MazdaUK]

DS(7) won't use any pics he's not taken himself - even though he gets frustrated as he has disposable cameras with no zoom so is limited with the pics he can get. I'l only use our pics (I will borrow from the boys if I like a particular shot or angle - or if I forgot to charge the camera battery:lmao: ) and I used some of my siste's as we were there at the same time and I wanted to include my nieces and nephews even if they were on days we hadn't met up.

[pebblesjnw]

Well I'm not opposed to borrowing. I'm actually trying to find some more Disney pictures right now to work on my honeymoon album. I dropped my camera about halfway through our trip and somehow the memory card broke and I couldn't get any pictures off of it (and of course that's where the majority of the pics were). And I can't just not scrapbook my honeymoon because of that so I'm trying to fill in any gaps that I can with "borrowed" images.

[Honeybehr1]

guess I am the odd woman out - I dont borrow photos. I will use an occassional postcard and park map but not someone elses photos. All the photos are ones either I have taken, dh, my kids and a immediate family(I do a niece nephew twin book)

I would just know that it wasnt mine

[mrsklamc]

I would borrow if it held a memory for me. I didn't see Divine, though, for example, so I wouldn't borrow those because they wouldn't mean anything about our vacation. I mean, heck, there's a whole LO of Spectromagic in the digital 'show off your work' thread that I would love to have in our scrapbook because I took horrible pics of it! The important part of any scrapbook to me is the memories, though.

[Sandy51]

I even borrow from myself. When I was doing an Animal Kingdom layout, I needed some more pictures of the animals. I just went to an old photo album, and added them in. I have also borrowed from others.


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[kswm30b]

I always use my own pictures, even if they aren't the best. For me, that's part of the reason I scrapbook...to showcase my pictures so they aren't just left on the computer. And I want to show my memories, from my eye & camera lens point of view. Not someone else's. I do use postcards, but I consider that memorabilia rather than pictures.

[fAnnF]

I've never "borrowed" a picture before.
BF is currently working on a layout where he needs pictures of ToT and RnR and the layouts sit with blank pages becuase we haven't gotten to go back and get a picture. I told him we could just get on from someone else, but he doesn't feel right doing that.

[calanniebu]

I too have borrowed pictures but only from people I "know" and I keep track of them too. That way if anyone ever sees a page and wonders about if the picture is there's I'll be able to tell them. :-)

[Camicar]

I told him we could just get on from someone else, but he doesn't feel right doing that.
What about it doesn't feel right?

I guess for me there is no specific memory of my own that is uniquely derived from a photo of the Epcot ball, unless it's the physical act of taking the photo. And I'm not documenting that....

And sometimes there is no other choice but to use other's photos. You may not be able to go back to a place. Example: A coworker of mine went to Rome and her film was destroyed by the xray machine. Honestly, IMO one photo of the Colisseum (or the sign for the Winnie the Pooh ride at WDW) is the same as any other photo, so if she didn't copy a photo from a guidebook or online or a friend she'd have nothing. For example, I've been to plays (Broadway, LA Opera, etc) where naturally you cannot take photos. But when I see a promo photo online of that production, I will copy it for my scrapbook because otherwise I would have none. Since I use photos not only to document my experiences but as a memory aid*, I'd rather have a promo photo than none at all. *I'm not going to remember what that set looked like in 5 years without a photo, but with a photo I will remember.

But it is interesting to see how others feel about it.