CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Using the <quote reply> button is easier ...

Flickr (flickr.com) is free for 1000 images, but there are limits to how many you can upload per day. That may be your best option for freely displaying images to a wide, unlimited public. A file-share site like dropbox, free to 2GB of files, is intended to then email a link to that sharesite to specific email addresses to actively come and download the contents; not a general share of images.

Lost Again Loc: Middle of nowhere Oregon

It looks like I have to do some more thinking on this as I have about 300 thousand photos going back to 35mm and 6x7 pentax days. I just had a new computer built and with the Qnap backup I have about 90 or so Tb. I have all the pics in that computer, and they are all in Raw. I use a program supplied by the builder called ACDSEE. It works well for someone limited like me. ACDSEE is simple, and I can store all my photos in it's library as set up by the builder. Most of my photos are bracketed in 3s,5s, 7s, and some even up to 9 shot brackets.

Keven Loc: Grandview, WA

Take your best pics and upload them to an account you can set up for yourself in familysearch.org. You can then add memories why the pic is important to you. Your dependents can the set up their own accounts and link them to yours and your favorite pics will be preserved forever.

srt101fan

You say: "Here we all are involved in an activity or hobby that many of us have paid tens of thousands of dollars for the equipment and related charges to produce an ephemeral result that we are just going to shit-can.....If what we are doing is such little importance and consequence even to our own families, then isn't this whole forum so much hot air about something insignificant that ultimately doesn't even matter?"

A bit harsh. The reasons for taking pictures and talking about photography on UHH are numerous and various. I'm guessing most photographers on this forum do not create images with the hope that their "work is worthy of being caried forward into the future". For some of us it's the journey and not the end product. And recognition and praise is nice but not everyone needs them to motivate their activities.

So it's OK to photograph for your own gratification and recognize that your creative output may be of no interest to those coming after you. Just as it's OK to sit down at the piano and play with no one within hearing range.....

Lost Again Loc: Middle of nowhere Oregon

I must of hit a wrong key as I sent the last reply before finishing.

As with most photography most of my photos are not share worthy. But I save all of them as a teaching aid to myself and revisit my mistakes before returning to a place I shot before. I was thinking of setting up a website that is open to anyone to download. I was liking your idea of turning them over to some institution that could work with them. I have all of the memory cards I have used in EMP safes as I only use a card once. I could turn them over to an institution. Let me know what you think.

Lost Again Loc: Middle of nowhere Oregon

Thanks Keven,
Good advice I well look into that.

Lost Again Loc: Middle of nowhere Oregon

Hi,
Thanks for the idea. I lived in Arizona and am a little familiar with that university. That would be a good place to contact because most of my stuff is of the southwest.

Thanks again

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

You are right of course. But lets imagine that when you sit down at that piano, you make a recording of your playing and that many of these recordings are fine music. I would like for folks in the future to have a chance to hear your efforts.

srt101fan

That is the big question!.... What do we produce that rises to the level of warranting preservation for prosperity? And by whose standards? But that's a whole other story.....

Horseart Loc: Alabama

No one will care about mine when I am gone. The will go into the trash.

TimHGuitar Loc: San Francisco, CA

Many years ago when I used to photograph what I thought would be my masterpieces, I knew in the back of my head that what would be most meaningful would be the family photos that I made. Now, after more than 50 years of making photographs I am selecting those films that I deem meaningful and I am producing black and white photographs in my darkroom for my children to have.
Just before the pandemic I broke out with a bad case of shingles and I couldn't do anything for months. When I was able to use my arm again, I still could not play guitar but I was able to go into the darkroom to make some photographs. I made a series of silver gelatin prints for a folio that I titled "Homage to Photographers of Old." After that I made a set of 28 photographs titled "Robert Cameron in Black and White." Then I made a folio titled "Portraits of Growing Up Asian." I just finished a fourth folio titled "Three Generations of Photographs." The last two are more in the line of a photo essay as they include many family photos. My grand father and my father were photographers who worked in the darkroom, so I had many films to choose from.
The pandemic, lasting so long, has given me the opportunity to make these folios. I made 4 sets of folios since I have 4 children. They aren't too interested in these folios at this time, but I'm betting that they will appreciate the work after I'm gone. I am leaving these folios in wooden boxes that I made with the names of each person who will get their copy. Actually, I am making, in some cases, more than 4 copies of these series as I want to leave at least one set of 48 images in a folio for each of my grandchildren I have 3 so far.
Our family has a rich history. My great grandfather came to this country in 1852 and worked, presumably, on either the railroad or searching for gold in order pay off the cost of his transport to this country. In 1864 he traveled back to China to purchase supplies and came back to America to start the first herb store in Chinatown. It was closed by the federal government during the end of the McCarthy era because it was illegal to trade with China by 1957. The family business, at the time, had over $750,000 in inventory (almost 100 years worth).
My maternal grand mother was kidnapped from China when she was a little girl and brought to this country to be raised as a prostitute. My grand father saw her in a brothel and purchased her and raised her until she was 15 and made her his wife. She bore him 9 children and my mother was number nine.
These stories and more are written out and left inside these wooden boxes to be discovered after I am gone. The project keeps me going and it makes my effort more meaningful. It also warms my heart to know that silver gelatin prints will last over 1,000 years when made correctly.
I make slide shows of my work in progress in order to view the chosen images and I arrange them again and again before I make the final prints. Here are slide shows of my projects. Currently I am starting a new folio which I am calling "The Spread."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrH83Tc2YgU&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRuddZKd8P8&t=104s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RPbjwxEUSY&t=21s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNPmgKuSJcs&t=218s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnIVAeHjl0&t=11s

Tony G.

A simple way to save your pictures for posterity is to copyright them. For information go to https://www.copyright.gov/registration/photographs/ . Unpublished Group copyright allows 750 digital photographs per application. Publication or copyright is probably the only sure way digital work will be preserved.

I am surprised many of you do not value your creative works. You are a part of human history and deserve to be remembered.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Wow, what does one do with so many photos?
I go through mine every year and cull out perhaps hundreds to the trash.
The first to go are birds and animals unless I have a story or I just really like them.

gotr

It’s funny all so true.

I should I need to delete a lot of them but I can’t. I should at least write down where they are so it makes it easy for someone else to delete

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

From what I see here, I have no doubt that you have many many other images worthy of preserving and passing on.