These are my great grandfather/grandmother and my grandfather, whom I am named after. Unfortunately, it is the only photo I have of Henry Leary.

When I look at this photo, I see the family resemblance, and this photo makes me ask a lot of questions about my family.

Here is a snapshot of my grandfather when he was much older with my grandmother. At the same time, this photo doesn’t communicate to others what it does for me because this is a memory trigger. It brings me back to when I was just a toddler and remembering my grandparent’s home and memories about them.

Here is my other grandfather. I realize these are photos of the family in our homes and relaxing and enjoying one another.

I didn’t take any of those photos., but they still mean something to me.

Our immediate family has its memories that I have been documenting through the years. For example, our boys are with my soon-to-be wife Dorie, my cousin, uncle, and her friend.

I took this photo at the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC, which brings back many memories.

On weekends when I would photograph a college football game for a wire service, I often would rent some longer lenses and would take some photos of our boys that same weekend in one of their games.

While my other photos were in newspapers and magazines telling the games’ stories, I cherish the family pictures even more.

I cherish the moments like this when my daughter first saw Harry Potter World at Universal Studios in Orlando. Parents love the moments when you help your children’s dreams come true.

While taking these photos is excellent, be sure you are doing everything to preserve those photos for the generations of the future of your family. So do your best to capture the moments and write a little about each image.

I recommend making photo books of your family’s memories. I use the publisher Blurb.com. If you use Lightroom to edit your photos, then click on the book module, and when you publish, you will be using Blurb.

Select all the photos you want in the book, and it will automatically create one you can modify, or you can do it page by page yourself.

Every day we look at photos to get news and help us do our jobs and hobbies. When you want to relax and remember, we are going to places like Facebook to remember and enjoy our friends and family.

I predict that the most important photos to you are those of your friends and family. Kodak sells films, but they don’t advertise films. They advertised memories.

Kodak advertisement, “We capture your memories forever.” and one that I think we need to remember today “The pictures you want tomorrow, you have to take today.”