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Offline BKS

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How do you keep your hunting/fishing photographs?
« on: December 30, 2009, 09:47:11 AM »
How do you keep your hunting/fishing photographs? Do you throw the pics in a box, have a special (Camo, etc) photo album, or do you have a scrapbook type album?

Years from now, other than your own memory these will be all that you/others have to look back at.


I'm looking for ideas...........

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Re: How do you keep your hunting/fishing photographs?
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2009, 11:02:38 AM »
How about saving them to a file, or a bunch of files, on your computer, then copying them onto a thumb drive to keep.  Those PNY and Cruzer devices that plug into a USB port are capable of saving, clearly and permanently, hundreds or thousands of photos.  You could even make up a file that you can type up saying what the photo is of, when, and who's in it.  Save that to the same devices as well.  Down the road, you can just insert the device into a computer, look at your pictures, and print off ones that you want--enlarged for framing, even.  Up to you.  Right now, on my computer, I've got about 25 separate files saved with pictures in them.  After New Years, I'll save most of these to a PNY memory device, and start files for a new year.  I'm not totally organized by any means, but I'm keeping a lot better track of my pictures now than when I had regular photo albums. 

Let me relate a true incident about pictures.  A number of years ago, I had copied at my own expense, some of the early photos stored in the files of the Historical society of the town in which I grew up. A couple of years ago, I scanned and copied these to my computer, then enlarged and labelled a bunch of 8 by 10 photos.  I gave these to the society, and wrote on each one exactly what they were of.  These folks, mostly newcomers to the town as i knew it, were very grateful.  One old timer still around, who knew me when I was a kid, said that the society had a couple of thousand photos in their files, and over half were worthless, because nobody ever labelled who the people or places depicted are.  Sad to say, nobody is left alive to answer these questions either.  That made an impression on me, and now more than ever I take care to somehow label every photo with who is in them at least.

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Re: How do you keep your hunting/fishing photographs?
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2009, 12:06:45 PM »
We have started buying these 3x5 and 5x7 electronic picture frames that rotate the pictures you have stored in them. So you constantly can see your photos rotate! We love em. and they are not expensive

In this day of electronics I reccomend storing them to a device that you can print them from when you want to or do as above.
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Re: How do you keep your hunting/fishing photographs?
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2009, 12:57:39 PM »
We have started buying these 3x5 and 5x7 electronic picture frames that rotate the pictures you have stored in them. So you constantly can see your photos rotate! We love em. and they are not expensive

In this day of electronics I reccomend storing them to a device that you can print them from when you want to or do as above.

Those frames are good, Oldshooter.  It slipped my mind about those.  My Mom, age 93, recently checked into a nursing home for good, and was stubborn about not having a TV.  We did get one of those frames for her though, and filled a PNY device with about 250 family photos, taken over the years, that she enjoys watching from time to time.  We add to the collection from time to time, on another device we'll be bringing her.  Easy to share pictures this way--as significant ones get taken by relatives far away, we attach them to emails, then either I or my brother save them to a device that we bring to her at the home. It's no problem for any of us to print any of these off if we want to.

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Re: How do you keep your hunting/fishing photographs?
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2009, 02:14:14 PM »
 :D  I keep mine in albums...with some notes on the back or in the margin depending on the album..Have some from the time I was `15 until the present..Some of the early ones have some nonhunting and fishing stuff mixed in, but they are all good memories...

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Re: How do you keep your hunting/fishing photographs?
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2009, 04:13:23 PM »
On my FOTKI site (see below) and on a seperate dedicated drive.
If you like, please enjoy some of my hunt pics at:

http://public.fotki.com/DrDougRx

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Re: How do you keep your hunting/fishing photographs?
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2010, 11:23:14 AM »
Our digital photos will eventually become relics of the past.  Remember cassette tapes?  Eight track?  Reel to reel?  What's in store next for us?  Holograms?

The 5.5" floppy disk is ancient history.  The ZIP drive is history.  The 3.5" floppy was recently rendered extinct.  External hard drives are hanging on by a fingernail.  The "Thumb Drive" is the flavor of the month.  What's next?

We used to have 8mm and 16mm film movies.   Once there was VHS cassette.  Then VHS micro-cassette.  Then 1X digital...Now 48X digital (or some such thing).  What's next?

Hardware, software programs, and even operating systems are updated, overcome by technology, and too soon outdated.  Each of us may eventually achieve "technology burnout".  I know I have.

For me, you can forget iPod, Blackberry, and anything like those Dick Tracy two-way wrist receivers.  I don't want to Bling, Blog, Tweat, Twitter, Text, or toot (except in private or the woods of course).

For now, my photos are partially digital, backed up on multiple hard drives, and partially hard copies.

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