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- What to do with the thousands of photos from your travels that are clogging up your phone and computer? And how do you share them with friends and loved ones?
- After deleting the out-of-focus and boring ones, consider Google Photos or Flickr. Upload the best to a professional hosting website such as 500px or YouPic
Many of us have hundreds, if not thousands, of travel and holiday photographs clogging up our hard drives and mobile devices - images that were treasured for a fleeting moment before becoming lost in a personal abyss of data.
Most of these images will never see the light of a screen again, let alone find be printed, framed, and hung on our walls as a reminder of that trip of a lifetime. All too often we lose or delete pictures to make space for even more images, most of which will end up going into that same digital bin.
When taking pictures on your travels it pays to be ruthless. Choose your shots wisely rather than being snap happy, and in the downtime – which many of us have in abundance right now – go through and cull those out-of-focus and badly exposed or composed images and select only your best images to keep, edit and display.
There are numerous platforms on which to display digital images, and you don’t have to restrict yourself to just one.
Your end goal will be a huge factor in where and how you post images. If you simply want to share with family and friends, then Google Photos is a good option (as long as you have a Google account) as you can keep your images private and not bombard social media feeds.
