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Screenshots don’t belong in the book (mostly)

A short guide to the exceptions worth printing.

Written by Rosa Delgado

Picking is the part nobody warns you about. Taking photos is easy; deciding which ones deserve paper is where most monthly books stall. The trick is to make several quick passes rather than one slow one, and to decide before you start how many photos the month actually needs.

Here are the photos that made it into the book. Tap any of them to see it larger.

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Written by Rosa Delgado

Rosa collects family stories from readers and turns the best ones into posts. She answers most of the email, too.

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4 comments

    1. Rosa Delgado Author

      Older kids are tricky. Asking them to take some of the photos works better than chasing them.

  1. Ben Adler

    Lovely post. The bit about keeping the blurry photos made me go back and rescue a few.

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