Photo storage in today’s world
Storing your photos can be a dilemma. The thing is, we take so many photos today with a smart phones, our point and shoots and perhaps even our sophisticated cameras. The issue surfaces: what do you do with all those pictures? Like the one I show here of myself with my sister and father from several years ago.
If you’re a little older like me, you remember photo albums. If you were organized, you would pick up your packet of pictures from the photo lab and put them in a photo album. If you were unorganized, you stuck them in a box and put it someplace. You would end up having boxes and boxes of photos. Things are different now.
With the advent of the digital image, photo storage became electronic. People started keeping their photos in their photos folder on their hard drive. What happens, though, if the hard drive crashes. You may have just lost all your photos.
Some people backed up their photos from their computer onto another media source, usually a CD or DVD. I have a notebook filled with CDs of photos I took. That’s all well and good but it’s not a perfect solution. That notebook could be lost. If not lost another problem looms on the horizon. It sounds like CD and DVD drives in computers will be going the way of floppy discs, VHS tapes and Polaroid cameras.
Just look at what’s going on in the world of technology today. All new TVs have ports for a USB or can connect to a computer through an HDMI port. Watching movies on DVDs is less popular today than other options like Netflix and other streaming services. And perhaps the most telling evidence of all — Apple Macbooks are no longer sold with DVD drives.
So what happens if you have your photos on DVDs and DVD drives go away. How are you to get access to your photos.
That’s one reason we at Moments in Time Images are looking for new ways to deliver our photos and video. More and more clients are interested in getting their wedding videos on USB drives. Our photos are now delivered through a gallery service offered in the cloud.
Cloud services like Dropbox, iCloud and Google Drive make it possible to share photos and videos with others easily. The benefit of cloud storage is that you don’t have to worry about losing your family photos if your hard drive crashes or your house burns down.
We’ve all seen sad stories on the news about people victimized by fire. One of the first things they try to save are family photos. Of course people will probably always print photos and hang them on the wall, but overall we think that in the future photos will be protected in the cloud for access anytime and anywhere.
