Capturing your holiday memories

Digital cameras are used to record special memories of holidays however there are a few precautions that should be taken.

Back up the images and keep the backup file in a separate place. During the past few years we have taken a laptop with us when going on holiday. Each evening I download a copy of the photos taken that day into a folder labelled with the date photos were taken. As an additional precaution I save the folder of images to a USB flash drive.

Keep a record of where photos were taken by making daily notes of places visited and activities either in paper form in a notebook or on a laptop or other device. Make sure that the notes are dated. If using a laptop notes can be saved on to a USB flash drive as a backup.

Most hotels provide wifi (often free) while wifi can often be accessed at various other locations. If good access to wifi is available notes about your trip can be uploaded to Google Docs or similar Cloud document services. Photographs can be uploaded into photo file sharing services such as Flickr.

Flickr allows members 1000GB of space to store images.

One you join Flickr you are allocated a space to upload your images.

 

This is your Photostream. Add notes and tags to images to assist location of images.

Albums can be created and selected photos moved into an album.

Photos can be shared with friends by sending them the link to an album.