A long-distance Valentine gift: make a photo keepsake you can enjoy together

Animated drive through the Our Special World sample photo city
Inside the Our Special World sample city. Select the image to try it.

By Our Special World, makers of the photo-city experience featured below.

When you cannot spend Valentine's Day in the same place, a gift can create a shared moment across the distance. Choose something with a simple reveal and a way to enjoy it together: a photo album you open on a call, a playlist with a note for each song or a digital keepsake built from your memories.

Give your photo collection a beginning and an ending

Start with the first visit, a favourite place or the picture that always comes up in conversation. Mix big occasions with everyday memories: breakfast on the last morning of a trip, a station goodbye, a pet interrupting a call. Finish with a picture connected to your next plan, if you have one. A small, deliberate selection is easier to talk through than an entire camera roll.

Choose a format you can both use

A slideshow works for a guided watch-through. An album lets you stop at each picture. For a more exploratory format, Our Special World turns up to 20 photos and an optional song into a night city that can be driven through or watched as an automatic film. Open the sample to check whether your partner would enjoy it.

This is a personal keepsake to share and discuss; it is not a shared multiplayer session. You can each open a copy and talk about what you see during a separate call.

Plan the delivery around their time zone

Agree on a time when neither of you is rushing. Send the file with a short note telling them what it is and how to open it. New Our Special World gifts do not need a password; check the current device instructions before sending. Save your own copy so you can help if the attachment is misplaced.

Add a small activity for the call

  • Each choose the photo that best captures your last visit.
  • Tell one story the other person may have forgotten.
  • Pick a song for your next journey.
  • Choose one small thing you would like to do together next.

Keep the invitation flexible. Your partner might want to explore immediately or save it for a quieter evening. A thoughtful gift leaves room for either.

Find the current offer and creation steps at ourspecialworld.com.

Take a look inside the sample world

A short tour shows how photos appear around the city. Press play below, then try driving or choose Automatic in the sample.

Play the sample world

Download the free sample HTML file (about 7.4 MB)

On Google Drive, choose Download, save the HTML file and open it in a browser. Drive's preview does not run the world. On a phone, the online sample above is the simplest way to try it. This is a demonstration made with sample photos.

A question about your Valentine gift?

Ask the Our Special World team before you decide. Leave your question and a reply email. This is an enquiry form, not an order; please do not include private photos, passwords or payment details.

Create a photo gift for someone far away

Choose up to 20 photos and add an optional MP3, or use the supplied soundtrack. Create your photo gift. You can review the current price on the website before purchasing. The ordering interface is in English.

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