Tips for storing travel photography

Every time I take photos on my digital camera 1) I take AGES to download them on to my computer, 2) I can’t get myself to sit down and organize my photos (they are currently in more than 20 “to sort” folders, 3) they are not backed-up, so should my computer crash or die, I will have NO photos of any trips over the last 3-years.

One of my new year’s resolutions is to get the back-up for my computer sorted out, especially because of the number of photos I store on it. I’m not too worried about the other stuff as that is all retrievable in some way or the other.

Come the time to sit down to organize and back-up files, the thought overwhelms me, I don’t know where to begin, so I just put the job aside for another day (that, of course is never going to come).

So, when I saw this piece in The Traveler’s Notebook on How to Store Your Photography, I took it as a push to at least start understanding my options. It’s a comprehensive list of best resources on how to store your digital as well as hard-copy prints — have a look at the piece here.

As for organizing your photos (big time sink and pain in the you-know-where), do I have good news for you — you may never EVER have to worry about organizing them again. Why do we bother organizing them anyway? So we can find them — but what if we could find them without organizing them? This is possible through a program called Photology, something I discovered a few months ago via Gadling. In a nutshell, once downloaded, it allows you to find any photo you want, basis any detail you remember about it. How wicked is that!? Have a full read of my review on the product here.

Happy photo-managing!