jimflow Loc: Chicago Area

I take the best pictures of an area and make a picture slideshow and add music from the area to the presentation. Always identify the city or region of your picture so your audience can quickly relate and enjoy. Only Change your pictures to the beat of the music. I always obtain the email address of those that are in the group and then forward a dvd, stick, or YouTube address to my musically video slideshow. Received so many compliments- most saying that now they can relive their vacation and show their friends their travel experience.

je13quincy

I have many coffee table books, choose the best pictures for the books. I use Shutterfly, they are always having sales, therefore you can open an account and “save” your project until they offer a sale and then submit your book for print. Also we went to Italy and took about 1,500 pictures so I used Windows Movie Maker and and organized them in the order of our trip and made a slide show with text to which I added a sound tract. I burned the movie to CD and when our guest come over I play it with the music and we watch casually as it plays on the TV. I also put it on YouTube, but due to copywriting they took the audio music tract off the video, so just the video is on youtube. On YouTube search under “Portrait of Italy by Jordan”, you can always add your own music while watching it. I used Andrea Bocelli which made you feel like you were in Italy!!!!!

ChuckMc Loc: Prescott, AZ

My PC set up is 2 monitors. I enjoy having my desktop wallpapers change at a one minute frequency using my travel pics and selected NASA pics of planets and Galaxies. Have been considering getting a NASD for backup, facilitating multi-device data access, and to permit off-site access to pics and articles I write.

magpix Loc: St. Michaels, MD

Good question. After retiring from my photojournalism career, I have found that producing books on my more exciting trips (via Apple or Blurb) that include text and maps are a great way to share my travel adventures with others. Friends that see these books sitting on a table at home often ask to borrow them so that they can learn more about where I've been and to enjoy my photos. Friends and relatives seem to be more comfortable viewing these books on their own rather than sitting and watching me show images on my computer. I've also entered my best shots in various art shows and exhibits and have had some success in selling the framed and matted prints. And lately I've found that various clubs and organizations, especially senior centers, are interested in having me make Power Point presentations of my trips. They stimulate lots of questions, and many folks become engaged and start talking about all the places they've been to. Of course, social media is another venue I use, but frankly nothing beats books, prints and live presentations.

Dan Mc Loc: NM

I have used Shutterfly for making coffee table books. They are very inexpensive, well made, and Shutterfly donates a a great deal to Veteran Causes!!!! THAT gets my nod when the need arises!

tomcat

I basically do the same. And at the end of the post-processing, I create Apple Books so that a paper copy can be created for posterity. We are creating a stack of Apple Books, which are really classy and great quality paper. My grandkids like to look at these for the neat places we have been and it also helps refresh their Disney memories.

All of the originals are on two hard drives.

tomcat

Wonder if you could post them on Dropbox and then invite folks to look at them at their leisure. I know that I always like to see where people have gone.

jaycoffman Loc: San Diego

I write stories about my trips--how I got there, packing and travel issues, the people I traveled with, the people I met and the places and things I saw. I illustrate this with my photos--putting them into the word processing document (I use Apple Pages but I don't recommend it--it sucks). Then I convert the document to PDF and send it by email to about 100 friends around the world. I get a lot of good feedback from these stories and pictures as I keep it very light and irreverent but also informative about the places I've been. I'm getting limited by the format and am now thinking of expanding into a web site if I can get one to accommodate my writing with the pictures in place.

Other than that once I have tweaked the keepers I keep them in travel albums by year and destination (and mode when I'm on motorcycle trips) and I do go back to them reasonably often to remember how great the trips were. Also, visitors and close friends sometimes like to see more when they visit so I have them right here.

Anyway, that's just one way to enjoy taking pictures and one way to use them. Hope you find a way you like but your coffee table books seem very good--a friend of ours does that and we love her results.

rbmartiniv Loc: Nacogdoches, TX

Books are good. I also make books of what I consider my best shots. I also put them on-line in Smugmug, making a "gallery" for each trip. That way friends and family who aren't close enough to see the books can visit Smugmug.

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

I use an electronic picture frame. This allows people to watch or walk away. It runs from a stick drive and will run a continuous loop.

chasgroh Loc: Buena Park, CA

...sure you could do that, but Dropbox, handy as it is, creates folders on recipient's computers that can get big, depending on usage. My solution to "sharing" is to put 'em up on Google Photos, and creating Facebook albums (which can contain your comments also). Making books, unless for sale, is kinda futile, IMO...I mean, how many times have you seen eyes roll up when your just showing pix off your phone? Haha, rather than creating books to thumb through that will gather dust, have your material in a site online that is easily accessible...it's just simpler and quicker. I'm fully invested in the "immediacy" culture, so obviously that has something to do with the way I roll... ;0)

SierraP Loc: Eastern Sierras

Flickr and a few online sites are a great way to show the world your photography. Flickr not only stores your photos but keeps a running set of statistics on the number of viewers who have viewed your pictures, who has them as a favorite and comments. The membership is free and they also have a "PRO" membership at $25.00 a year which gives you a larger storage file. You can communicate with photographers all over the world.

ncribble Loc: Albuquerque, NM

We faced this same dilemma some years ago when we started traveling. I also had a desire to leave a travel log of these ventures for our grandchildren, so we published a personal website and included a dialog along with many photos. The interesting results are that now I write better, and take much better photos. We started sharing with our children and grandchildren and over time we've added many friends to our mailing address book. Our website is www.ncribble.com and you are welcome to come back at me is you have any questions. Norm

Mr palmer Loc: Currently: Colorado, USA, Terra, Sol

You might try to isolate some unique or little discussed part of wherever you go and approach it as a documentary project. Capture photos and details and names and write an informative (and gorgeous) article that could be put on the web as a Flickr, etc. album or a page of your website, or a gallery show, or sold to a magazine. I might also engage you more as a photographer to find an actual "assignment" in Cuba (not just more colorful street photos of people looking 'ethnic'). Example: A specific music venue or group; a local coffee shop/hangout; a particular public space (the history, etc.).

charlienow Loc: Hershey, PA

i use shutterfly and make my book and wait for a sale...the best one is to pick out the size book you want at 50% off and get unlimited pages...its hard to spend more that $40 on one...they run this sale maybe 2 times a year...

i get a lot of comments from friends and family on the books...some of the family look at the books every time the come over...