Question of the Week: Photo Organization
Aug 01
Everyone,
This week’s question at the Multiples and More blog is all about Photo Organization.
How do you store and organize your photos? (Digital, and physical?)
Oh photos. I have thousands upon thousands of them. I typically take about 400 pictures a month. Just of my kids. Gah, that seems terrible. But maybe they will be happy when they are older? And not all of them are keeper pictures either. I put the best ones up here on the blog for you guys to see. Other than that, they tend to get lost in the hard drive that is my computer.
* Do you save only on your computer, or do you use an online photosharing site?
I save them on my computer AND I try to use an online photo sharing site. With Butterfly, I was so great about uploading my pictures every month and sending them out. I don’t do that as much as I would like. Of course, I’m taking tons more pictures than I was with Butterfly so it takes longer to upload them.
After the picture crash of 2009, I am better about backing up my pictures onto an external hard drive. But I need to be even better about it.
* If so, which one do you use? What do you like about it?
I used several different sites. For most things that I share with my family, I use Kodak Gallery. It’s easy to use, has a plug in with iphoto which I use. It’s what I’ve used for years. One thing I don’t like about them is that I have to buy stuff from them in order to keep my pictures there.
For the blog, I use Flickr.
For pictures between Lolli and I, we use SmugMug. I’m really impressed with it!
* Do you have physical albums of your photos, or do they only exist online?
I do have physical albums of pictures. I have all the physical albums of my pictures from high school in my closet. I have several scrap books of our first years of marriage. And several scrapbooks of the first years of us as a family. Butterfly even has a baby book.
* Do you scrapbook?
Yes, I do. Well, I did. Lolli and I used to scrapbook once a week when our kids were babies. But sadly, our time ran away with us. Just tonight I’ve talked another friend into getting together several times until her 3 kids baby books are done, and my 3 kids baby books are mostly done! I am SO excited to get things together again and get the pictures all organized.
This week’s question was a 2 part question…with a game! “And second- let’s play a little game- Since today is 8-1, Go to your eighth album in your “Pictures” files, and post the first picture in it on your blog.”
This is a picture of Butterfly hugging her Daddy March of 2009. Love that elbow dimple and how happy she is with him. This was fun!
Safire
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