Wedding Hire

There are many simple ways to have a "green wedding". Hiring a digital photographer is one of the easiest ways of all ... Why go digital? Well, here are some reasons:

Receipt of your wedding or portrait photos on DVD and / or CD is more profitable and more environmentally friendly than pay several hundred printed photos, you can never use.

If you want to share photos, these days it is so easy to upload or e-mail your favorites to your friends and family. This is not only saves you time and energy, it also saves you money!

In addition to financial benefits to going digital with your wedding photography, ecological reasons are quite compelling way.

It has been known for years that the chemicals needed to develop and print photos are toxic. - As the manufacturing process of paper for printing. This paper is chemically treated in a variety of means and photo paper is not known to be recyclable or recycled.

And film itself is responsible for a significant contribution to environmental pollution. Specifically because of emissions of methylene chloride, a solvent used in the manufacture of photographic film. Very, very toxic.

And then there's the treatment. For each roll of 24 film prints, at least 4 ounces of chemicals are poured down the drain during treatment. Down the drain means in our water systems and leaching in soil.

Money is also used in film processing. In fact, approximately 40% of all the money consumed in North America has been used to produce photographic materials.

The money is released from film processing, such as photo labs and hospital x-ray units in the form of sewage sludge. The silver ions can be more toxic to aquatic organisms than mercury.

Now, all this does not mean you should not get any prints made at all. Of course, you want some photos printed for the framing, but when you receive your wedding photos in digital format, all you need do is select a few shots to professionally printed, instead of dozens . Or you can even make your own printing at home.

Another thing great advantage to have your images in digital format is that they will last forever ... While film images will deteriorate over the years, digital images can be archived safely indefinitely without ever losing quality.

So is this simple choice really make a difference? Yes. More than you think ...

Recently, the Stockholm Water Authority in Sweden noted that the rise of digital photography has been a major reason for pollution of silver had fallen by half in the sewers of the city in just five years.

Evidence that the choice of a digital photographer really has a positive effect on the environment!

For more information on the many ways to go "green" for your wedding, visit www.blueplanetwedding.com