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Is Your Photo Backup Process Up To Date? Part 1: Let’s Back Up Our Phones
In two days Photobookgirl.com will turn 10 years old! A decade in cyberspace is like 70 years (kind of like dog years - you know what I mean?) So much has changed since I started this site. If I were starting this site now I think it would be very different because of how the technology has changed. Do you think I should sign up for TikTok? Haha... But one thing I hope would … [Read more...]
How Many Photos I Snapped in 2019
This post is going up a little later than I'd hoped but better later than never! At year's end (usually New Year's Eve) I take stock of how many photos I've taken in the past year. In 2019, I took a whopping 26832 photos! Last year my final count was 16692. I took 10,000 more photos in 2019, than I did in 2018! Honestly, I'm quite surprised about that total. But looking … [Read more...]
Having a New Year’s Photo Rockin’ Eve
This New Year's Eve counting down into 2019, finds this mama partying right in front of her computer. Haha... Yup no fancy soirees or late night out for me. Just a quiet, very early dinner out with my husband, getting back just in time to tuck our two little ones into bed. Now with our the kids settled in and no one awake in the house except for me, I'm celebrating the end of … [Read more...]
Photo Book Obstacle #1: “I Have So Many Photos, I Don’t Know Where to Start” Overcoming the Photo Abyss (Updated 2019)
Do you ever start something thinking that it's going to go one way, and then it takes a curve and you end up going in a completely different direction? Happens all the time right? Well, in process of writing this post, I started out with a list of "10 Things That Keep You From Making a Photo Book (And 10 Reasons Why They Shouldn't Stop You)". I was happily typing away during my … [Read more...]
How to Start the Year Off Right – A Guide to Organizing and Backing Up Your Photos
Every year around New Year's I take stock of my year in photos. In 2015, I took 9046 photos. That's a bit down from the prior year's 10,613, but still pretty respectable I think! (A few dozen of these photos were taken by a professional photographer for our family photo shoots and some selfies were taken by my talented four-year-old, but the vast majority I snapped myself.) At … [Read more...]
How Should I Backup My Photos? Part IV – Photo Book Girl’s Plan B
My head is swimming with all the options out there for backing up my photos! To recap, I wrote a multi-part series on "How to Back Up Your Photos". My first post covered external hard drive and DVD backups. Part II took a look at photo sharing sites such as Flickr and Shutterfly and Part III was all about file storage in the Cloud. It's been great to hear from Photo Book Girl … [Read more...]
How Should I Backup My Photos? Part III – The Cloud Online File Storage
Welcome to Part III of my multi-part series on "How to Back Up Your Photos". To recap, my first post covered external hard drive and DVD backups. Part II took a look at photo sharing sites such as Flickr and Shutterfly. This post is about backing up not only photos and videos in the cloud, but any and all files that may reside on your computer, such as text documents, PDFs, … [Read more...]
