How to Document your Life (and Why you Should)

Document your life. Something I regret not doing enough of in recent times is documenting mine. This changes now. This is why, and how I document my life.

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[RickBebbington]

If you've not seen, last week unfortunately saw the deliberate felling of the iconic tree at Sycamore Gap in the North East of England. This tree is in a place I always wanted to photograph, but never got round to doing so. I always thought I'd have time in the future to shoot it. A timely reminder to capture and document what we can, whilst we can....

[bpiercevideos]

Took two years off from photography and regret it. But it’s never too late to start again!

[ashstubbings]

This is precisely why I love photography so much! Ever since I started my photography 'journey' (a bit of a cliche I know but very accurate description) about 5 years ago, I've taken my camera out with me almost every single day. The very fact that I could pinpoint exactly where I was and what I was doing, on any given day over the past 5 years is amazing to me! and it's all thanks to photography.

[qwerty-oryg]

My dad used to record VHS when I was little, and recently I went and converted all those old tapes into digital format. It was such a pleasure to relive all the experiences from 20 years back. I guess this is why I recently fell in love with documenting my life and people around me. Now, would you recommend getting intax camera (the very same in this video 3:57), or buying a photo printer instead? Kind off want to have some photos placed on a wall with core memories and in some other places.

[alekdalewski]

very inspiring, simple but powerfull - thank you for this video

[warlock]

Not on the same level as documenting things to keep/gain creativity but in 2016 I suffered a near-fatal road traffic accident which left me in a coma for 8 days and with two separate spinal fixations. I spent 5 months in hospital learning to walk, dress, bathe etc again and then the subsequent 2 years were still recovery years and even today I am limited in what I can do. I really really wish I'd have taken videos or photos of the whole journey. I have memories of the time of course but I don't really know if they're 100% accurate anymore what with the drugs I was on, especially early days, and I wish I had an accurate memory of that time so I knew exactly what I'd come through.
It's also nice to see someone so talented with videography and photography lose interest too as I've created and deleted Instagram accounts to share my photography countless times.
This might just be the video I need to spark things up again.

[sweetlifeofjosh]

Officially my favorite video on documenting life!

[raphael]

This is the reason I bought a camera! Cheers to documenting your life! Thanks for the reminder

[boomshiddang]

This is such a great reminder Rick! I need to get back to documenting my own life as well. Especially salient message for those of us who get paid professionally to document other people, we need to remember to do the same for ourselves as well 📸🎞️❤️

[SharulnizamMohamedYusof]

I don't know how I found your video, but thank you for reminding me exactly what I need to do.

[JulienBoulardMW]

That was a great video indeed! Loved it, very motivating!

[HaiTomVlog]

This is really inspiring. So many moments in a life to document, so many moments forgotten when they’re not! ✌🏼

[drawlingstuff]

Great video, I'm feeling very inspired. Thank you!

[OregonRose]

I love utilizing Day One for my journaling needs and wants, and have used it for years.

[maciejkaron-dslr]

One photographer said "documenting the lives of our loved ones is our most important task." I also take photos and try to write a diary. My wife and I develop several dozen photos every year so that we can return to these moments in the future and so that our children and their children can remember us.

[MariuszJeruzalski]

Great video! great thougts! great series! keep going!

[TacksWurld]

New subscriber, I completely agree with documenting life, photographer for 30+ years and the story's I have from this hobby turned profession are such great memories. Ive since began to VLOG all of 2024 in my life the way just to look back on past events that occur during the year.

[AndyCuthbert]

Another great video, Rick, and another great reminder. 👏🏻👏🏻 Brings me back to the days or being a kid and being the film camera around and just taking pictures of “anything cool” and now the family loves looking back at those memories. The wife and I welcomed our daughter the world the year and, for me, resparked the want to document moments, and even go back to your B video and make some books for our family to have and cherish. Again great series. Look forward to the next one.

P.S. Great to see a “New England” book, if that is from the States. As a New Hampshire resident the family and I would love to have an England/UK photo book on the shelf eventually.

[ogonzilla]

This video was soooo good!!! Subbed. (Note: Omar was here when Rick had 2.2K subs)

[ElectricPngs]

glad someone made a video on this topical and u did it well. sometimes people need reminders and u did just that.