Mother’s Day 2020: Gift Your Photography to Mom

Mother’s Day 2020 will prove to be an especially unique holiday this year, with many brunches taking the form of extended video calls. Nonetheless, it’s still a holiday worth celebrating to the fullest and, despite many of us not being able to be with Mom physically on her special day, it’s important to show her how much we care. A gift of some kind goes a long way, especially now, and one gift my mother always appreciated from me was a photograph of some kind, or at least something personalized or something that I created. With this in mind, here are some tips and ideas on how you can gift and share your photography with Mom for this Mother’s Day.

Give Her a Print

We’ll start with the obvious one first—but it’s an obvious choice because it’s a very good choice. Even outside of the context of this holiday, a print is often the best and most final way to display your photographs, so what better way to share your work with your mother. Here are some Photo Printing Tips, if you have a printer at home, or maybe you already have a stack of prints at the ready; in either case, a print is a great way to share something with your Mom.

However, as good as a simple print is, if you want to deliver a finished, ready-to-hang photograph, you’ll want to also take on the task of framing and mounting your photo. Our own Cory Rice has written a guide on displaying prints, and has also spoken to some professional framers to get their tips, but to condense it to a single idea: it’s smart for you to frame your own work because it adds an extra level of professionalism and it gives you the opportunity to decide the finished aesthetics of the photograph, including the frame. Even though we’re talking about Mom, and not a client of yours, it’s a given that you’ll still want to share your work with her in its best and finished form.