When you hear the term "traditional photo album", the image that undoubtedly comes to mind is a photo album made of cardboard covered with a plastic material of some sort, and with a set of rings for holding the pages, which in turn will hold your pictures, presumably safely for many years to come.
When you hear the term "traditional photo album", the image that undoubtedly comes to mind is a photo album made of cardboard covered with a plastic material of some sort, and with a set of rings for holding the pages, which in turn will hold your pictures, presumably safely for years to come. However, these pages are most likely going to be made of plastic, with four to six pockets, holding eight or twelve pictures each. The thing many people don't realize is that, if they're like most pages of this type, they will be found to contain a chemical called polyvinyl chlorides, or PVCs. They aren't a danger to humans, but they certain can wreak havoc on your photos over the years. The way they do this is by slowly sucking the color out of them. After a period of years, instead of the vibrant colors that were originally on the photos, they become a sort of pastel, which is really disappointing, since most pictures can't be redone, as they're of people who have since aged, or scenes captured on a vacation long ago. So, the memory is forever lost in its original form.
However, eco-friendly photo albums, like the ones available through forestcityphotoalbums.com will not do this damage, no matter how many years the pictures remain in them, since they don't contain any plastic of any kind, so the PVC danger doesn't exist. Instead, the pages are a heavy paper similar to construction paper, thus completely safe. You can trust your precious, irreplaceable photos to them for your lifetime and beyond. Not only are they functional, they're also very artistic in nature, in that they are each a work of art, handcrafted by master craftsmen on the island of Bali in Indonesia. Each ingredient in them, whether bamboo, or various kinds of seeds, leaves, or flowers, is used as is--no tampering with the natural color. Since things in nature tend to be one-of-a-kind, rather than assembly line in nature, each is slightly unique in some way, whether the pattern of the coloring on the bamboo, the time in the life of the flower when it was picked for use in a photo album, etc. Thus, each one of these organic photo albums is literally as unique as people or snowflakes.
Feel free to stop in at our website, and check out the wide variety of styles--more than 80 from which to choose. Also, we make it a policy to give you free shipping and handling whenever your order reaches $75.
Jim Green lives in Rockford, IL, and owns forestcityphotoalbums.com, which offers eco-friendly photo albums in more than 80 different designs broken down into over 20 categories.
