What do you do with all your digital photos? Part 2 of 2

Last week I posted the first part - What do you do with all your digital photos?

Essentially I'm still not convinced digital is the way to go.  I feel that hard copies are nice.  You can look at them and display them.  Shutterfly is my website of choice.  They have pretty decent prices and always have sales.

But then the problem is, once you make all these photobooks, what do you do with them?

I saw this pin on pinterest. - I thought it was great.  She used plate hangers. And I thought that was a great idea.  You can display them and everyone gets to see them.  They can get taken off thew all extremely easily.  It was perfect.

 So this is my interpretation of displaying photobooks.  Right now I only have 2 to display,  I guess I've been busy getting married and remodeling the basement. Haha.  But that didn't stop me from wanting to hang the 2 photo books I have.

The problem came when I tried to decide how many plate hangers do I buy?  Do I buy 2? Do I buy 4? 6?  I really liked this hanger from Amazon priced at $6.55 each. But how often to things change slightly, or go out of stock.  And how would I know how many I would eventually need?  Or the bigger problem, where to store them.  So, I came up with the idea to buy 2 now, and then every time I make 2 more photo books buy 2 more slightly different hangers.  I think it'll look good, a little eclectic, and unique.  And then you don't have the matchy matchy problem.

Now to make more photobooks. :)

What do you do with all your digital photos? - Part 1 of 2

Honestly, I would love to know what you do with all your digital photos.

Do you upload them (all?) to Facebook?  

Do you print them out at Walgreen's?  

Do you upload them to a photo sharing site?

Nothing?

I guess I do a combination of everything.  (including nothing).  I upload some of them to Facebook.  I make some of them into photobooks. (Left and Below) 

Shutterfly is my favorite for making photo books.  I also like it because you can easily post them to a shutterfly website. 

  And others... just sit on my hard drive.  

The last one is the scariest, because I'm always terrified of my laptop crashing.  I used to have an external hard drive to backup my laptop (I've always been a fan of laptops).  Then one day my laptop crashed and before I could go buy a new laptop, my external hard drive crashed.  All that work of backing up stuff... wasted.  And who has the money to spend sending it to geek squad or whomever to get it fixed.  As sad as it is, a hard copy may still be the best way to keep things safe.  

C and I have talked about getting a real website, mostly for storing photos and stuff.  Or buying storage to store photos.  But there is always the pesky problem if costs.  

So, what do you do with your photos?

Northern Lights - I didn't take this pictures

One of the things I desperately wanted to do while I was in Alaska was see the Northern Lights.  Unfortunately, we decided to go to Alaska when there was virtually no darkness (only twilight).  So the northern lights were impossible to see. 

Before I die, I want to see the northern lights... I mean how cool is this picture!!

Horses and Dogs

By now you should have figured out I love horses and Dogs... Therefore I love this pictures. :)

AMAZING picture - Courtesty of Chicago Trib - June 2010

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time.  This picture was taken a year ago by a member of the Chicago Tribune.  For those that don't know Chicago's skyline, the tower on the right is Trump Tower and the tower on the left is the Sears Tower.  The Sears Tower recently had its name changed to the Willis Tower but in my mind it will always be the Sears Tower.  For about 25 years the Sears Tower was the largest building in the world.  It still is the tallest building in the United States. Trump tower is the 2nd tallest building in Chicago and for a year or two was the building with the world's highest residence above ground-level. 

This picture was taken during a gigantic storm.  The Trump tower was turning their lights on for the first time.  Trump tower was recently finished being built and that night was essentially their "opening" (even though at this time people were already living there.)  The picture was accidentally taken.  I think it is amazing, and honestly a once in a lifetime experience.