Gifts for photo-loving families

December 9, 12:06 AMEarly Childhood Parenting ExaminerAngele Sionna

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Smile! If your family loves taking photos, hanging up photos and sharing photos... this gift guide's got you covered. Here's a look at some holiday gift ideas for photo-loving families.

What better gift for a family of photographers than a new digital camera. A great one to consider - the Samsung SL310W. This camera has great resolution and is easy to use with 13.6 mega-pixels, 28mm WIDE angle lens, blink detection, smile detection and more. Reaction time is pretty good too, so you can snap photos quickly of the kids opening up their gifts without missing anything.It is priced reasonably too. A great choice to give the whole family just one present everyone can enjoy. Read more about it at samsung.com.

Already have a camera or looking for something a little less but will still impress? Check out the cool Shoot-n-Sync wireless memory card by Lexar. This is so neat. I know it's not "hard" to plug the camera into the computer to upload photos but it can be a big pain and is time consuming, but not with this cool wireless card. It is just that - wireless. You just leave the camera on and it transmits the pics over your wireless network to your computer or even your Facebook page. It will email you or send you a message via Twitter giving you a status report too. Very impressive.

Store lots of photos without taking up hard drive space or make it easy to transport to Walmart, Target or your other favorite in store photo center with the Mimobot Series USB 2.0 Flash Memory Drive. To top it off, they’re super cool looking in designs for every personality from Star Wars fans to pop art fans.! Gotta watch out though because the kids will want to play with it because it's so cute.

The Kid-Tough Digital Camera by Fisher-Price is very durable and loads of fun for toddlers. My daughter Ava has taken it and dropped it along many hikes and all around the house. The quality is not as great as your adults digital camera. But it is decent and sure is fun for kids. It works with both Mac and PCs. Perfect for the photo-loving tot in your family around three years old and up.

For babies, check out the Stack n Smile Photo blocks from Onestepahead.com. They're a set of four brightly colored blocks with see-through sleeves on each side where you can put your own family photos or photos of things in your world. For birth and up.

Make a photo into a fabulous piece of art that anyone in the fam will be proud to display, not just because your little cuties are in it, but also because they're so cool looking. The place to do it Photofiddle.com. They make canvas photo reproductions with artistic touches. They turned one of my photos into the artwork you see at right. We all love it and it has preserved a great memory from our first family trip to Disneyland!

Label Daddy photo stickers turn favorite memories into stickers to put on everything from Christmas cards to coffee cups. I used some to make ornaments for gifts too. Read about that HERE.

A great gift for yourself or grandparents are photo calendars. There are two great ones that I personally have an recommend. The first is by Shutterfly.com. You upload dozens of your favorite photos from the year, choose backgrounds, captions and more. They're easy to make and you can ship them directly to your loved ones, so you can save step. They're very high quality, so you don't have to worry about them being flimsy or cheap looking.

The second cool photo calendar is from ChocolateCakeClub.com. It's a little different and cool in its own way. You just insert one 4x6 photo, then record a message with the whole family sending out a hello or other greeting. This is great for families who live far away. Grandma and Grandpa can hear their grandkids every day this way if they want.

The Smartparts SPX12 SyncPix Digital Picture Frame has a great 800x600 resolution from a 12" LCD screen in a nice-quality wooden frame. This is definitely an upgrade from the other photo frames on the market that I have. You can display photos one at a time, do a slide show and you can even play your digital movies that you took in your camera. It has an internal memory of 256MB and take all popular memory card formats so you can have a big collection in rotation. There's also a motion on off to help save power. Extra bonus: no computer needed. I love this frame. Watch a video with more details HERE.

To take all your loved ones with you wherever you go, check out Smartparts key ring photo frames. It has enough memory to store 100 photos and a rechargable battery. Super cool and under $20 to boot. Perfect to send loaded up with photos to grandparents or for mom and dad. You just connect it to the computer to change the images whenever you want.