Snapbox photo printing service - review

As you may have noticed, I love taking photos. I love to document my day. I carry a small Fuji Fine pix camera around with me all the time and I snap away, documenting and capturing what I do, as I do it. I use these images in so many ways - I obviously put them on here and on The Compost Bin  :-), I use them to illustrate talks and lecture notes; I refer to them to see what I was doing and when, I check back to see what "this time last year" looked like in the garden, and so on.

I don't pretend to be a particularly good photographer, but occasionally I do see an image I have captured and thought "ooh I like that - I wish I could have that as a print" but somehow I never get around to actually printing it off. I used to print off a lot of my shots in the good old days of film but since the advent of digital cameras I haven't done much printing.

I was recently contacted by SnapBox  an innovative digital photography service newly launched in the UK by established fine art printing company, JONDO. Snapbox very kindly offered me a free print in return for trying out the service.

Compostman has been refurbishing and redecorating the guest bedroom and it will (very soon!) become our room. We have a new colour scheme on the walls, a new floor, new blinds, a new flower bed to look out at, so what better way to brighten up one of the windowless walls than to put up a lovely print?

 

So, I went to the website, uploaded my chosen image from my computer, cropped it until I liked what I saw, picked a size and then put it in my basket. During the process you get to see what the print looks like, in the frame, against a wall. A few more key strokes and lo, I had purchased a print to hang on the wall. 

The whole process took me less than 10 mins from start to finish and was much like loading images onto Blogger (only faster!) 

Apparently you can also upload a photo from your mobile device, or select one from your Facebook albums. Alternatively you can email an image from your device to Snapbox.

 I was most impressed that the print arrived the NEXT DAY! I ordered it at 11 am and it arrived the next day by courier at 2 pm. What about that! The parcel came well wrapped up in recyclable stuff - I will be adding the cardboard to the compost bins.

 

And this is what I chose - it is one of the Bumblebee images I took from the Centaurea next to the polytunnel door.I am so pleased with this print - it looks just like I wanted it to and the image quality is excellent.

At the moment it is standing on my dresser in our bedroom, waiting for me to get round to hanging it on the wall.

Disclaimer -This post mentions a company who sent me a voucher for a free print, in return for me trialling the website and going through the ordering process. It originally appeared ( in an expanded form) on The Compost Bin. As always, the words I write are my own and are my honest opinions.