We follow up with every customer after their order is complete to hear about their experience using our service. One of the best parts about doing so, is learning how people are actually using our service to reconnect with their memories. Afterall, it’s not about photo scanning or video transfers, it’s about preserving precious memories. To celebrate these stories, we’ll share a particular customer’s tale each month. To kick-off our Customer Spotlight, we’d like to highlight one very special customer, drum roll please…Greg Kimmelman!

Greg lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his wife of over 11 years, Gila and is the Director of Preconstruction at Stiles Construction. He used our service to convert his old wedding photos, shot by Russ Bryant, to digital files. Greg and Gila, pictured on their wedding day here, had a very limited amount of photos in their official wedding album, but had over 1,000 negatives that had never even been seen. Greg says, “We maybe had printed a few pictures, but generally here we were with no more “visual” of our wedding than the 40-50 pictures in our album.

Years later, Greg even took the plunge and bought a scanner. After finding himself getting caught up with the technical details and desire to edit each image, “I gave up.  I did the math on how long it would have taken me to scan them all and adjust them to an acceptable level, and the project would have taken me over a year!” That’s when he discovered ScanDigital.

Greg describes the first time the first time he and his wife enjoyed his images, “to coin a cheesy phrase…an amazing walk down memory lane began.” He goes on to say, “After 11 years, it was amazing to see so much of our wedding…family, friends, events all there for us to reminisce about, laugh at and with the over 1,000 pictures readily available for us to peruse, we were finally able put visuals together with so many of the stories others had told us about our wedding weekend.”

He also shared another meaningful reason he further enjoyed revisiting these memories. “Another special treat for me in particular was seeing pictures of my father and older brother at our wedding. Both had cancer at the time of our wedding, and within a year and a half of the wedding we lost both of them; so seeing pictures of them together with the rest of the family, relatives and friends was especially meaningful to me.”

In regards to his experience working with ScanDigital, Greg appreciated our continued communication throughout the process the most. He goes on to make to make us blush, “Thank so much for what you do and for helping bring an over 11 year project to daylight.  I would highly and warmly recommend ScanDigital, as I have already, to many friends and family wishing to preserve and relive many great memories.”

Read Greg’s complete story below:

“My wife (Gila) and I have been married for just over 11 years now.  Like most people, we engaged a photographer to handle shooting our wedding…not just any photographer, but a photojournalist/war correspondent (Russ Bryant of Savanna, GA) who would shot our events in black and white (edgy at the time…a bit more common now) and who would not shoot any “posed” pictures (though we talked him into a few given some special considerations).  Another “condition” of his shooting our wedding was that he alone, without our input, wanted to pick the pictures to create our wedding album…and he did an amazing job.  There are probably 40-50 pictures in our “official” wedding album.  

Russ shot over 1,000 pictures over the course of our wedding weekend, and he agreed to give us the negatives since we didn’t have him provide us proofs of rest of the pictures.  Despite our initial and best intentions, we were going to have them all printed just to have them but never did.  Fast forward 6 or 7 years, and we maybe had printed a few pictures, but generally here we were with no more “visual” of our wedding than the 40-50 pictures in our album.  

At that time, I decided to look into getting all our negatives converted to digital format, but it was very expensive at the time, very few companies did it and the resolutions available at that time were not so great.  After waiting a few years for technology to advance a little, I started my research again, but this time looked into buying my own negative scanner thinking I could (and would) do this project by myself.  After about another year of research, I took the plunge and bought a semi-professional scanner. We were so excited to finally be close to being able to see the rest of our wedding pictures and have them digitally. I anxiously read the instructions, got the scanner set-up and scanned my first few negatives and WOW!  They were awesome. However, I am a bit of a perfectionist so after reading more about the photo editing software that came with the scanner, I got so caught up in trying to adjust the pictures that well…I gave up.  I did the math on how long it would have taken me to scan them all and adjust them to an acceptable level, and the project would have taken me over a year!

When we got back we anxiously opened the package, got all the pictures transferred into iPhoto and to coin a cheesy phrase…an amazing walk down memory lane began.  With all the “stuff and things” going on with a wedding, you really don’t get a chance to experience it all, which is why you hire a photographer.  After 11 years, it was amazing to see so much of our wedding that we never got a chance to experience…family, friends, events all there for us to reminisce about, laugh at and with the over 1,000 pictures readily available for us to peruse, we were finally able put visuals together with so many of the stories others had told us about our wedding weekend.  Another special treat for me in particular was seeing pictures of my father and older brother at our wedding. Both had cancer at the time of our wedding, and within a year and a half of the wedding we lost both of them; so seeing pictures of them together with the rest of the family, relatives and friends was especially meaningful to me.   Maybe eventually I would have picked up the self-scanning project again…most likely not.  Without the advent of a company like ScanDigital, and in particular Matt’s help, we might still be sitting here with over 1,000 un-scanned, un-printed negatives.  Thank so much for what you do and for helping bring an over 11 year project to daylight.  I would highly and warmly recommend ScanDigital (as I have already) to many friends and family wishing to preserve and relive many great memories.”