We make it easy to share and preserve your photos, videos and more
PhotoTek owners Paula Stebbins and Lynn Broussard want to ensure that your family’s visual history will still be around for future generations.
Will your family’s photos still be around in 50 years for the next generation to enjoy? Take steps today to ensure they are.
Technology continues to change the way we shoot photographs and video. It has left us with a fragmented visual history that holds little meaning for our own generation, much less future generations. Reel-to-reel canisters stashed in the attic are a complete mystery. Thirty-five millimeter negatives are stuffed in envelopes. Video cartridges, clearly labeled and neatly stacked in the bottom of the closet are useless without a VCR player. Images photographed and videoed on family members’ smart phones have never been printed or preserved.
The photography and design experts at PhotoTek can help.
“We want our customers, their children and future generations to be able to reminisce over old photographs and movies,” said Paula Stebbins, PhotoTek co-owner. “Technology has changed, people haven’t. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t enjoy seeing old family photos and home movies.”
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Photographs and video recordings collected, curated and preserved tell the family’s story. Even notes, letters and memorabilia can be scanned and preserved in digital format at PhotoTek. Photos can be sized similarly for printing, put on a disc or copied and shared with others.
“In the old days, negatives and prints may not have been kept in an organized manner, but we could usually get our hands on them,” said Lynn Broussard, PhotoTek co-owner. “Most survived from one generation to the next. But now, with so many of us shooting photos and video with our smart phones and other mobile devices, I think we’ll need to make an effort to assure the survival of our family’s important digital images.”
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Today’s cell phone photographs and videos will be cherished by the next generation the same way today’s generation values sepia photographs.
Find out how to put photos and videos in an easy-to-use format future generations can enjoy. Photos and video transferred to disc can also make it easy to quickly transport images.
Will your passport photo pass?
Don’t take a chance and waste valuable time by submitting a passport photo that doesn’t meet the government’s standards.
“They’ll reject it, and you’ll be back to square one,” said Broussard. “If you’ve waited until the last minute to get a passport, that could really throw a wrench in your travel plans.”
Not everyone realizes that dimensions, position, lighting, backdrop, tone and resolution of passport photos must meet certain specifications.
A photo from PhotoTek – never an inkprint on flimsy paper – submitted with a downloaded and printed online passport application form can be a cost effective and easy way to obtain a passport, according to Broussard.
Get a photo print without leaving home
PhotoTek carries Promaster mobile lens kits to enhance your mobile phone’s photographic abilities.
People from all generations have commented on how easy PhotoTek makes it to print digital images. Customers can use the online site at phototekdesigncenter.com or the easy-to-use computer stations at PhotoTek, located at 4430 Nelson Road in Lake Charles. PhotoTek has a drive through window and prints can be mailed to customers.
Drop in to PhotoTek, at 4430 Nelson Road, to see what’s available and how you can “Preserve Your Life” for generations to come.
Making sure your family’s photos will still be around in 50 years depends on what you do today. PhotoTek helps families organize, preserve and share their histories.
Location: 4430 Nelson Road
Phone: (337) 474-2213