Treat Your Family Photos Like The Treasure They Are.

We provide professional photo management for family media collections

It’s 2023. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are?

If you have a lifetime of photos, videos, and treasured documents filling your storage shelves, you aren’t alone. Most clients we help have dozens of family albums, boxes of print envelopes, drawers full of hard drives, and old computers that hold countless stories and treasured moments of their lives.

It’s all there.

Somewhere.

But it’s an overwhelming task and they don’t know where to start.

It’s not your fault. Like all of us, you happily switched from double prints and slide carousels to digital cameras and iPhoto. Then came the iPhone and cloud storage. Floppy disks, photo CD’s, portable hard drives, Flickr and Shutterfly. All attractive and convenient ways to save, view, and share the thousands of photos you create every year.

The thing is, all those precious photos are in different places, saved on different media or services. Who knows where that child’s first step went? Or the photos from your honeymoon? The print of your mother as a young woman holding you in the back yard. THAT one you can probably find in an old album if you look hard enough. But the color is fading and it ought to be scanned and restored in digital form to be enjoyed on your iPhone or re-printed for your wall.

Live Your Life and Leave The Memories To Us.

Getting your family photo collection under control can be a huge project. Ask anyone who’s tried it on their own. It’s been decades in the making, after all, so your photo collection won’t be straightened out overnight. Just identifying all the places your photos are - physical or digital - and gathering them into a master library is time consuming by itself and often comes with technical hurdles like download restrictions or deteriorating media.

Professional Photo Managers know where to look, how to acquire photo and video in any form, and have the technology to do that most efficiently and with the highest quality. Once all images are collected, they also eliminate duplicates, add meaningful search data, can make key Albums, and create a collection backup strategy that protects and preserves your priceless photos and the memories they share beyond your lifetime.

And that’s the point. Your family photo collection is the timeline of your life story. At Bluewater Photo Management, we believe you should be free to live your life and create your memories with the confidence and convenience to revisit them whenever you want to.

Feel free to live your life and leave the memories to us.

Our Promise

At Bluewater Photo Management, we're on a mission to safeguard your precious memories. We understand the importance of your family's stories and are dedicated to creating organized, secure, and private media collections from your print and digital photos and videos.

Our goal is to ensure that your cherished moments remain accessible and protected, beautifully preserved for generations to come. With our keen attention to detail and commitment to excellence, we offer a seamless and personalized experience. Trust us to bring your memories to life, so you can relive them with ease and peace of mind every day.

About Us

I’ve worked with images all my life and I want you to feel the joy I do when you see a barely remembered photo that fills you with happiness and transports you to that special time. It’s a gift we can give ourselves and it’s priceless.

Images connect us with our lives in ways that nothing else can. And the older I get, the more I appreciate that fact. A photo can cut through all the clutter of a hectic day and warm your soul. That video clip of my late mother at Christmas recalls dozens of special holiday moments in the blink of an eye.

And her voice . . .

Starting out as a photographer, my entire career has trained me for service as a Photo Manager, and to help you have the same experience I do when I look at my life’s journey in pictures.

Paul Einarsen

  • Founder and Owner - Bluewater Imaging LLC

  • Certified Professional Photo Manager

  • Former Apple Genius and Creative Trainer

  • The Photo Managers Advisory Board

  • 40+ years in the graphic arts industry

  • Served clients like Ralph Lauren, The Guggenheim Museum, and Cartier

  • BA in Environmental Photography

Leave the memories to us.

  • Collect physical and digital media

    Collect

    We gather all your media into one master collection. Physical media - prints, slides, audio and video tapes, film - is scanned or converted to digital media. Digital photos and videos are collected from computers, mobile devices, hard drives, online services, and CD’s.

  • Organize

    We review the collection for duplicates, poor quality images, extras, sequences, etc. and add dates and data to help sort and organize the collection.

  • Share

    We set up access to your photo collection using proven, reliable photo management software. Whether safe guarded in a private library or posted to a shared family online gallery, Bluewater Photo Management will create a secure viewing experience that fits your needs. Sharing options can include protected access for family and approved friends as well as curated public galleries.

  • Create

    With your input we create meaningful digital and print photo collections - framed prints, photo albums, online galleries for your enjoyment and to share.

Here’s the thing.

The time to get your photo collection all together, de-duped, uncluttered, organized and at your fingertips is right now.

Before you add more photos.

Before the old prints have faded away.

Before the video cassette tapes come apart.

Before you delete something by mistake.

While you can collect the family stories from those who were there.

Photos are the story of your life.

You only live once, but you can relive it every single day.

We’d love to help with that.

Professional Photo Management for Family Media Collections