Postcards
Isabel's gallery upload today got me thinking, well something has too.
A few weeks ago the local card shop asked if they could use some of my images on postcards for Seaton Carew, not a problem.
But do we still buy postcards....The lady who owns the shop told she'd been asked for some last summer and thought she'd try stocking a few to test the waters.
Anyone remember foreign holidays... especially before emails and social media.
We'd spend a while choosing a writing cards to send home. Generally getting home before the card arrived.
Does anyone still send postcards, or buy them for that matter.
I don't.
A few weeks ago the local card shop asked if they could use some of my images on postcards for Seaton Carew, not a problem.
But do we still buy postcards....The lady who owns the shop told she'd been asked for some last summer and thought she'd try stocking a few to test the waters.
Anyone remember foreign holidays... especially before emails and social media.
We'd spend a while choosing a writing cards to send home. Generally getting home before the card arrived.
Does anyone still send postcards, or buy them for that matter.
I don't.
Not me, don't send , don't receive
To be honest I usually criticise the picture on the cards like us photographers do!
Steve
To be honest I usually criticise the picture on the cards like us photographers do!
Steve
Must be at least 30 years since I bought a postcard. But I know friends who buy them to save the bother of taking photos!
With all the digital choices today, I can't see why anyone would go to the bother of selecting a card, writing a 'wish you were here' greeting, then finding the nearest post office...
Quote:I was grateful to get away from most of them....
How very true this is! 🤣
Quote:
Quote: writing a 'wish you were here' greeting.
I never wrote this, I was grateful to get away from most of them.... 😂😏😉
I was thinking of 'glad you're not here' when I wrote that!🤣
Maybe some people use them as mementoes? I dont think I've ever sent a postcard and it was always a bit of a joke that people would get back from holiday before the post card arrived.
Quote:Must be at least 30 years since I bought a postcard.
To be honest I usually criticise the picture on the cards like us photographers do!
Quote:Same here. That must be about the same as when people in the office stopped senfing them too. There was no point on short breaks..
Garish colours that were completely wrong, boring hackneyed views and taken in light coming from over the left shoulder at midday in June. Wish I wasn't there then. Though most people's phone piocs won't be that great anyway but at least it won't cost them anything and they'll be blissfully happy..
There was an interesting account of postcards in their heyday in Eammon McCabe's photo series on BBC4 which is worth a watch when it comes round again.
As above i'll sometimes buy a few to show what the place looked like to others when i return.
Or Sometimes just to compare with the images i took
Or Sometimes just to compare with the images i took
