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 … [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...]
How Should I Backup My Photos? Photo Sharing Sites – Part II
In Part I of this series on backing up your photos, I talked about what I currently do for storage which involves saving duplicates of my photos to several hard drives and occasional DVD burning. In this part, we'll take a look at photo sharing and photo storage sites. As mentioned earlier, not every possible company is listed below, but the more popular ones I could find or … [Read more...]
How Should I Backup My Photos? Hard Drives and DVDs – Part I
A discussion we've had a few times on Photobookgirl.com's Facebook fan page is about what to do with all those photos you've amassed in your hard drive. Before digital, you were likely in one of two camps: 1) those who printed out their photos (and left them in the envelope they came in), or 2) those who slipped them into photo albums or scrapbooks. Now that memory cards allow … [Read more...]