pmacc1

I too was collecting a huge number of photos that I felt were sitting, unseen, on SD cards and hard drives. But I came up with a solution that lets me and my houseguests enjoy the photos on a daily basis. First, I bought an 8TB Netgear network attached storage (NAS) drive, which has wireless capabilities, regardless of whether or not the computer is turned on (the NAS is always on). I copied all of my photos (over 250,000) onto the NAS drive. I then bought over a dozen Pix-Star digital picture frames that also have wireless capability. I then set it up so that each frame displays a particular group of photos. Two of the frames are 15" and are turned on via remotes -- I use those to display special collections, usually recent photos from holidays or vacations (I had custom wood frames made and hung these on the wall; I also had wall outlets installed right behind those two frames so you can't see the electrical cords; the quality of the display is far better than the attached photo can show). The smaller frames I set up to display all my other photos -- not all 250,000, but over 100,000 (so I rarely see the same photo twice in a short period of time). Also, the smaller frames sit on tables or shelves and turn themselves on via built-in motion-detectors, so I never have to bother with them. Guests are always fascinated by all the photos and I'm constantly surprised to see photos I may have forgotten about long ago. Was this expensive? Yes. Was it worth every penny? Absolutely. Now, every day, I know why I take photos. It's not enough to collect -- they have to be seen. I think of the old philosophical question: if a photo is taken and it only exists in digital form and nobody ever looks at it, is it really an image?

photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA

I print my best photos (11x14) and I mat and frame them.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Send them all to Nat Geo. So far at least I have yet to hear from them

JD750 Loc: SoCal

I use them to help keep the external hard disk manufacturers in business. ;)

jaycoffman Loc: San Diego

What a fun question. For the pictures I take I immediately download them to Pictures on my Mac. Then I export them to Lightroom where I immediately go through them and delete completely all the ones I consider hopeless. Then my second edit if for composition with adequate technical substance. The ones that don't make this cut get deleted from Lightroom but are still on Pictures. Then I edit the pictures as best I can in Lightroom. From that I do two things--first I export them back to Pictures as JPEGs and then I add them to stories I write about my trip. When done I export it all to a PDF and sent it to friends who have asked to be on my mailing list. Then I go back and transfer them to iPhoto (yes, I'm still using that--I just don't like Photos) into what I can use as a slide show for others who want to see more of the trip than was in the story. This is all great fun as my stories almost always generate some discussion--partly because I'm a born smart-ass and give them a lot of good material to work with and partly because they are interested in my trips. I continue to refer to the pictures regularly to help me remember the trips and think about other ones.

I also collect a wide range of pictures from friends and the internet and scans from old photos. I particularly save pictures of family and friends from pictures I take and from scans. I have thousands of those and have great fun with them all the way from making my own Valentine's Day cards for my wife from the wide range of heart pictures I collet to accentuating other communications.

I guess I'm pretty visual because pictures are very interesting to me.

canon Lee

I have shots I get paid to do, and save them for 2 yrs before deleating them (in case I have a re-order). I dont even burn them to a disc, as 2 yrs of shoots have way too many to save. But I shot a engagement shoot with the couple and their children. A year later the bride asked if I had any pictures from the shoots as their home burned down and lost their pictures. Sadly one of her daughters died in the fire. Fortunately I had them all saved as post edited JPEGS and burned them to a disc for her. Perhaps even a commercial photographer like me has some reason to save the RAWS & JPEGS. So some may ask, what about your personal and artistic shoots? Unfortunately my business keeps me busy, so I can't just relax and take fun pics I like. For family trips or friends I burn them to a disc and file them away. I dont have a draw filled with prints, just a few discs stored away in my office.

canon Lee

I have shots I get paid to do, and save them for 2 yrs before deleating them (in case I have a re-order). I dont even burn them to a disc, as 2 yrs of shoots have way too many to save. But I shot a engagement shoot with the couple and their children. A year later the bride asked if I had any pictures from the shoots as their home burned down and lost their pictures. Sadly one of her daughters died in the fire. Fortunately I had them all saved as post edited JPEGS and burned them to a disc for her. Perhaps even a commercial photographer like me has some reason to save the RAWS & JPEGS. So some may ask, what about your personal and artistic shoots? Unfortunately my business keeps me busy, so I can't just relax and take fun pics I like. For family trips or friends I burn them to a disc and file them away. I dont have a draw filled with prints, just a few discs stored away in my office.

ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

I really don't care about your "ROOC". If you can't write what you mean just don't! I hate acronyms!

I.A.Teacher

I collect photos of Presidents, Geo. Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant, and of course the only non-president, Benjamin Franklin. I'm sure you know where their pictures are printed. LOL

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

ROOC is an image that appears in a manner and fashion that pleases MY eye. As I absolutely NO desire to use a photo editing program* and I have several. I don't compete, sell and seldom share. I'm neither a critic nor a "pixel-peeper". If I share with you and you don't like - throw it away, I don't care. So ROOC is, to me, something that pleases me.

*I have Photoshop, Paint Shop, DxO's whatever as well as Nikon's and PTGui. Have been using Paint Shop since its inception, which was at the same time as Photoshop. I scrapped PhotoShop because Adobe made is file-save proprietary which could not be viewed by any other program - even Windows Explorer. At one time I had some degree, but not expert, of proficiency in all of them - given my chosen lack of use, I'll probably have a hard time opening any of them

JD750 Loc: SoCal

That is a fantastic idea!

Funny circa 2003 when I bought my first Digital Camera, I assumed that I could buy a “Picture Frame” device that would be about the size of a 8x10 picture frame and it would display digital images. After checking around in stores, and getting the dumb look from sales people, I realized my idea had not been invented yet. Somehow that idea became overcome by events, I have used my iPad for that at parties for example.

I love the way you matted and framed the PixStars! Very creative!

Thank you for sharing, I hope you don't mind I'm going to do that too.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

I think ROOC means Right Out Of Camera. I am sure that OP (original poster) wrote what he meant to write. The usual acronym for ROOC is SOOC (straight out of camera).

So there are two acronyms you can hate now, that both mean the same thing. Have fun hating them.

Anandnra Loc: Tennessee

Rests in multiple digital backups only one day to be discarded when we pass on ....

pmacc1

Dont mind at all -- i particularly recommend that you spend the money having outlets installed behind the frames -- the "cordless" look completes the hanging picture illusion.
Funny you mention looking too early for those frames -- I looked too late. There was a period there where digital frames were everywhere, but when I went to buy them a few years ago, there were hardly any still for sale and almost no "brand names." I guess tablets destroyed the market. I was lucky to come across the PixStars on Amazon. So far, they've been bullet-proof. But, if they break, the digital frame is only attached to the wood frame with elastic straps -- I can slip out the old digital frame and slip in a new one if need be (if the PixStars are still being sold). The whole set-up runs very smoothly and my wife finally agrees that I wasn't totally crazy.

russelray Loc: La Mesa CA

LOL
Obviously you didn't read what I wrote.