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I backup my iphoto about once a month to a small external hard drive. In 2005 my old imac died and I lost everything so I'm more careful now. I order prints every so often and put them in albums just because I like flipping thru albums. I also still use a film camera from time to time.
I'm a bit more into saving photos since the tots arrived.

Most of my shots are digital. A few months ago I bought a Time Machine for my Mac. Best purchase ever! It is a wireless transmitter and an automatic backup drive. You never have to think about it. No more burning DVDs once a month!

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Albums and hard drives/thumb drives. A few are in frames and displayed, but I hate that cluttered look of framed photos everywhere.

All my shots are digital with the exception of a few from Africa trip and wedding. I don't display personal photographs around the house.

How many people have artful photographs of themselves that are worth displaying? And don't you hate those people who have their entire life up in photographs for all to see?

I knew a newly wed couple and their wall was covered in their honeymoon pics...in their living room. I thought it was tacky and annoying. :)

A bit off topic, but where is that bookcase from?

Does anyone have a suggestion for getting slides scanned? My family has a ton of my grandfather's slides--we aren't sure what to do with them.

well you store all digitally, you print some and display them. I have very few in albums anymore, but I won a digital photo frame in a contest and it's great for displaying photos. I also rotate pics so I don't get bored seeing the same thing all the time.

btw, why do the photos in my house have to be classified as art? I've got art but right now my immediate family is myself and my husband and we like seeing pics of our good times in the house. No one else is going to have pics of us in their house so why not? lol

Mine are now all scanned, at home by me (work spaced out over several months while watching television), it was necessary in order to give copies to everyone since dividing albums wasn't practical or respectful. As for display, I don't believe we see what's in our homes when it's a static display, I have monthly boxes that contain all my memorabilia and photographs. In December, I put the holiday photos in the frames throughout the house, at the end of the month they're packed back in the box, out comes January photographs (NYE celebrations, birthdays, ski vacations), so there's always a small rotating display of family photographs from month to month. I don't keep a lot of frames out, I keep it manageable, it's somewhere around 6-8 scattered throughout the house.

RebeccaCT: most scanners in the under $200 range have holders that will scan multiple slides at once, so it's quite easy to break up the job and get it done over time (put the slides in the holders, put the holders in the scanner, press the proper button, come back in 3-5 minutes), otherwise if you're willing to pay a fortune you can take them to a camera/photo store that offers scanning services.

i guess i'm old fashioned coz i like hard copies of my pix and i love to see family photos around a home..although i do enjoy having my digital camera handy to carry and share my pix with friends without the bulk of carrying around actual ones.

the main problem with not having hard copies is that u cant show them to anyone who doesnt have access to a computer if u only upload them.

Most of my photos remain digital, I only print out the best ones.

To ensure I don't lose any I back up to a hard drive I keep in a fire safe, a hard drive that lives in my safe deposit box, and Carbonite.com. Even if my computer, my house, and my city is destroyed I'll still have all my photos.

Most of my vacation photos are saved on my computer. The rest are either in photo albums or displayed.

MODERnestS: I couldn't agree more. It's so incredibly boring to be in someone's home and have to look at their family photos.

I understand that there are those people that love to see themselves everywhere they turn, but in my opinion, if photos are displayed at all, it should be in the private areas of the house.

And, wedding shots are the absolute worst. I've see wedding photos displayed in homes where the couple has been married 12 years!! Come on. They don't even look like that anymore. Do they need to look at the photo to remind themselves they're married? Or were thin, once? Or once had hair?

Anyway, enough with the ranting.

I throw my photos in a box. I admit that I do have some of my mother's family's photos displayed, but they are cool, old, black & white photos from the early 1920s, or before. It's not like two people in front of Mt. Rushmore with goofy grins plastered on their faces.

Photos. The crux of my storage problems. I have several boxes full of family photos after I sold and cleaned out my mother's house. Couldn't bear to part with the family history and plan to scan and display a few. But the task keeps getting bumped down on my "to do" list, so there they sit taking up crucial space in a small NYC apartment. Some would look quite artsy if displayed properly. More current stuff just resides on my computer which I back up periodically.

Ms Pea -- Why is it boring to look at someone's family photos? You expect them to hide all photos of family just to please you? You'd sure hate my place. I do agree with the people living in the home not needing dozens of pics of themselves up - but I do and will continue to display some photos of my family. I feel like it's kind of like walking through a photo album or someone's biography - the shots are a moment in time that is gone and we can not get back or maybe weren't even alive to be there when it was taken.

Now, I have no vacation shots up - all my photos tend to be group shots, like my parents sitting in their living room or all Chris' aunts and uncles on his mom's side sitting on the grandmother's porch. I find it extremely interesting to see photos of people - and it can make a conversation point when you don't recognize someone and you can ask when this was taken.

I don't have many family photos up but I'm STILL not inviting Ms. Pea to my home... you sound like such a grumpy visitor!

Rucy - Agreed. Someone like Ms Pea would probably be asked not to visit my home again.

I don't mind seeing people's family photos--it speaks to what's important in their lives.

I have my pre-digital photos in photo albums, organized chronologically. Digital photos are on harddrive (bad) and flickr.com. In the process of scanning prints too, will have digital and hardcopy versions of those.