AFFILIATE BLURB
This blog post is part of a series, and the other related posts are here:
PHONE PHOTO STORAGE
Back in the day, you didn’t take photos every day because film was a precious commodity! Now with digital options and a camera always nearby via our phone, we take photos of everything. Now, the photo you just took, will you ever look at that again? Does it actually mean anything to you? For me, only saving the important memories and ideas is vital, but I have to keep my compulsions in check, so I allow myself to go through my photo reel at the end of each month to clear out the junk.
I use Apple products, and have the monthly iCloud subscription so I can access my photos anywhere — my phone, computer, other computers via the web, etc. This also saves my sanity, in that if my phone gets lost, stolen, or broken, my memories and notes are saved elsewhere.
At the beginning of a new month, I sit down at my computer and pull up my photo storage app, looking at the photos and screenshots I have saved. SOMETHING NOT SOUNDING RIGHT HERE Then I sort them into different places:
Screenshots and photos relating to blog-posts I save to a file on my desktop for future reference. Things like funny memes, or a topic I want to write about.
Photos of potential gifts for family or friends goes into my Gift Idea sheet on Google Drive. SEE HERE FOR HOW I WIN THE PRESENT-GIVING GAME
Then I go through the memory photos from the past month. I try to keep only a few photos from each activity, and they need to be unique and interesting. Also, they usually need to have my people in them — I’m probably not going to want to see a photo of a random street in the future, but I will search for a photo of my kids playing in a street. For group photos, I try to keep the one where the most people are paying attention.
I’ve noticed that you don’t really need a ton of pictures to remember an event, you just need a quick reminder. We get so consumed with needing to document every moment of our lives, but think about our parents and grandparents and how they dealt with photos and video. Take and save enough photos to remind you of these days, but be in the moment as well.
My college friend, Kevin, once said, “You can use the time to record the experience, or you can actually go out and live it.” He meant it as a knock to journal writing, but I think there’s some truth to it. Record some memories, but make sure you’re out doing things as well!
Once I have the photos whittled down, I upload them to our family blog. We use Blogspot for their free sites, and complete a new post for each month. The photos get sorted in timeline order, and then I add a caption and recall the stories of what happened during those times. What are some funny things that happened? Where were we? OTHER QUESTIONS
In order to be more minimal DISCUSSION ON WHAT WE SHOULD DO TO PRINT PHOTOS? DO WE MENTION THE BLOG BOOKS? DO A NEW POST?
CALL TO ACTION.
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