Photo Viewing Poll (1 Viewer)

[Gally]

The photo storage post got me thinking about whether or not people actually go back and look at photos they have taken.  So let's hear it.  What do you end up doing with all the photos you take?

 

[belljr]

we talking digital or physical?

I dont take a lot of photos.

I just usually wait for google to remember the day then I will broswe throught them again

 

[Gally]

we talking digital or physical?

I dont take a lot of photos.

I just usually wait for google to remember the day then I will broswe throught them again

Any and all photos.  Basically do you ever go back and look at old photos in a regular (or semi regular basis) or are then just taken and then put some place?

 

[ChiefD]

Yeah, we look at them every so often.

I need to print up some actual photos one of these days - maybe this Christmas would be a good time. 

 

[mr. furley]

digital photos has made this worse. i like the tactile feel of sorting through them. especially the randomness of seeing photos from the 80s mixed in with those from the 2000s.

physically touching the photos makes me think about each one. it evokes more memories than scrolling down a list of digital icons.

 

[belljr]

Yeah, we look at them every so often.

I need to print up some actual photos one of these days - maybe this Christmas would be a good time. 

My sister give out shutterfly calendars every Christmas to the family.   I mean she gives other gifts.

But we all go through the whole calendar when we open it instead of waiting.... a nice little tradition she started years ago 

 

[ChiefD]

My sister give out shutterfly calendars every Christmas to the family.   I mean she gives other gifts.

But we all go through the whole calendar when we open it instead of waiting.... a nice little tradition she started years ago 

Good idea.

When my kids were little I would make DVD's for my wife at Christmas with music in the background with a timeline of the kids growing-up photos. Instant happy tear-jerker and a little jerker for 'ol dad later, if you know what I mean. 

 

[Bull Dozier]

My photos are backed up to Amazon.  They have the "memories" similar to Facebook where it shows you pictures taken on this day previously.  I enjoy looking back through those, mostly memories of the kids or family vacations.  I enjoy that.

My mom used to put pictures in photo albums.  Even as a kid I enjoyed going through those every once in a while.  Miss that.

 

[Don Quixote]

I still like physical too.  I don't print out the 4x6's or whatever, but, after a trip, I'll often organize on Lightroom and make a picture book that I'll upload to Blurb for printing.  Gives me something tangible to look through when the urge strikes.

 

[The Iguana]

all of the above? Depends on the photos. Literally have photos that fit into every category above. Although the last one is mostly my wife getting out photos when it's just us and the kids around for special occasions - generally the kids' birthdays, our wedding anniversary, vacation album, back to school, and such.

 

[Foosball God]

For my 40th birthday my mom gave me an old school photo album with all kinds of pictures of me through the years.  It was an incredibly thoughtful gift and more so because these were all original photos from the 70s, 80s, 90s and she had kept them and then organized them into an album.  It was cool, and embarrassing in some cases, looking back on some of that stuff.  It triggered quite a few memories.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The mall sells these clear mantle piece things where they embed an old photo into a 3D experience. Kind of creepy.

 

[Gally]

For my 40th birthday my mom gave me an old school photo album with all kinds of pictures of me through the years.  It was an incredibly thoughtful gift and more so because these were all original photos from the 70s, 80s, 90s and she had kept them and then organized them into an album.  It was cool, and embarrassing in some cases, looking back on some of that stuff.  It triggered quite a few memories.

Storing just the digital pictures somewhere seem like I  would never go back to them.  Having an actual album makes more sense to me that you would actually view them occasionally.  As some of said upthread, making the calendars or yearly picture books seem like the way to go to actually take the time to look through them. 

 

[snogger]

I have a digital photo frame at work loaded with my photos and we have one at my cousins cabin in Canada that has my photos as well as others on it.. And my personal computer has the screen saver set as a slide show of my pics.. So, I see them daily

 

[mr. furley]

i'll also add that my wife and i had a discussion about this when the kids were younger

she took lots of photos with a digital camera, backed them up to a drive, put them on a laptop, etc. and swore that she'd print them one day... no worries because they were not only on the camera, but also a drive and a laptop. "but couldn't you have printed them, furley????". well, sure, i could have but my wife is... uhh... very particular and has.... reactions.... so i left it alone thinking they'd get printed eventually and kept putting it off.

well the camera got broken. the thumb drive got ####ed somehow and the laptop went blue screen of death before she the pics got printed or transferred somewhere else.  there wasn't cloud storage then so no backups exist.

about 1500 pics of the kids gone in an instant, never to be seen again.

needless to say i was not amused.

so digital is great and all but technology being what it is, one never knows when the digital storage might decide to go #### up and you lose everything.

 

[snogger]

i'll also add that my wife and i had a discussion about this when the kids were younger

she took lots of photos with a digital camera, backed them up to a drive, put them on a laptop, etc. and swore that she'd print them one day... no worries because they were not only on the camera, but also a drive and a laptop. "but couldn't you have printed them, furley????". well, sure, i could have but my wife is... uhh... very particular and has.... reactions.... so i left it alone thinking they'd get printed eventually and kept putting it off.

well the camera got broken. the thumb drive got ####ed somehow and the laptop went blue screen of death before she the pics got printed or transferred somewhere else.  there wasn't cloud storage then so no backups exist.

about 1500 pics of the kids gone in an instant, never to be seen again.

needless to say i was not amused.

so digital is great and all but technology being what it is, one never knows when the digital storage might decide to go #### up and you lose everything.

:( this is why I pay the yearly fee for flickr pro.. Have my computer set to upload photos as soon as I download them... Also, I have a bunch of old hard drives from old computers and a external device I can slide them into.. So a few times a year, as a 3rd backup, I save the newest photos to one of them.

Also spent weeks scanning all photos we had before digital came around and uploaded them. 

 

[WDIK2]

well the camera got broken. the thumb drive got ####ed somehow and the laptop went blue screen of death before she the pics got printed or transferred somewhere else.  there wasn't cloud storage then so no backups exist.

Should have been able to get those back inexpensively if you couldn't do it yourself.  Do you still have the laptop?

 

[snogger]

Storing just the digital pictures somewhere seem like I  would never go back to them.  Having an actual album makes more sense to me that you would actually view them occasionally.  As some of said upthread, making the calendars or yearly picture books seem like the way to go to actually take the time to look through them. 

Get a digital photo frame.. Love the ones I already have and plan on getting one for our living room.

 

[mr. furley]

Should have been able to get those back inexpensively if you couldn't do it yourself.  Do you still have the laptop?

we tried a handful of methods to get them recovered. nothing worked. 

even had a guy who worked for Microsoft send some data recovery program that allegedly worked even if the computer was blue screened and that didn't work. 

laptop might be buried in a box somewhere but i doubt it. 

 

[bigmarc27]

I look quite often. They’re on my iPad and I have my starred favorites that I thumb through quite a bit.  I have thousands on there, many of which I could do without but there’s a big portion that I’d be upset if I could never see again. 

 

[WDIK2]

we tried a handful of methods to get them recovered. nothing worked. 

even had a guy who worked for Microsoft send some data recovery program that allegedly worked even if the computer was blue screened and that didn't work. 

laptop might be buried in a box somewhere but i doubt it. 

I've used something like this several times to help people recover documents/photos.  Take the hard drive out of the laptop and use the adapter to plug it into another computer as an external drive.  Doesn't always work if the drive has physical damage.  Usually works if the OS or other drivers/hardware are messed up though.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Wife takes a ton of pictures and everything  up to google so I’ll occasionally go searching for a specific person or event or if it sends me one of those canned They Grow Up So Fast videos I show they wife to make her cry

 

[sports_fan]

I voted for the answer that best matched my tendencies 

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

I don't have any digital picture frames, but I have a tv in most rooms of my house with a Google Chromecast attached. With it, I can stream a picture or full slideshow to the tv's. I don't always do it, but if guests are visiting, I will usually have something on.

I also make prints ranged from 8x12 to 24x36. I have more prints than wall space, so I will rotate what I display - usually by the season.