Photos, thousands of photos....

[tory79]

I'm not old, only 34, but back in the day when there were cameras with film, you were careful about what photos you took seeing as you'd only be able to take up to about 36, then you took the film to the chemist, got them printed, discarded the shit ones then put the rest in an album to admire for ever more.

These days I go on a 2 week holiday and take over 1000 photos. I have nearly 700 photos on my phone just from the last 3-4 months. My computer is actually literally full (I only have 1gb space left on my laptop, 133 gb of photos/videos) I do have an external hard drive and need to move some over to clear some space, but my real question is what do you do with all the millions of photos you can take so easily these days? I do take a lot (I blame ds for being so blimmin gorgeous) but I don't think I'm the only one taking a lot more photos these days. Plus as they are digital I never do anything about printing them out. I look at them on my phone, put them on fb etc. Its not the same!

So what do you do with all your photos?

I print a couple of my favourites each year and redo my kitchen wall keeping favourites from previous years and adding in new ones. This year I might just get a new frame

I have the frame widget on the home screen of my phone. Every 5 secs it changes

I still print mine, but it is a mammoth task sorting through them. I try to do it once a year, usually after our main holiday. I put them in date order first and try and choose the best 20 or so from each month, more for holidays, then I get them printed and put them in albums. I fill one album a year usually so god knows where I'll put them when the bookcase is full, I'm old school though, I like being able to flick through them and I like the idea of showing them to future generations. I may start doing photobooks in future as I have done some of those and they prob work out cheaper and take up less room.

I am also quite organised anal about saving them all onto dvd and filing them in a fireproof box. I haven't yet got my head around online storage and I worry if I died and no one knew where they were, they'd be lost forever!

We have a wedding album and an album each for dc from birth to aged one.

We have over 600 photos stored on Flickr, filed into sets. Family have our web address so can view any time.

I have my favourite photos on Facebook.

We also have a back up of all photos.

There is no way I am risking losing all those memories.