How do you leave your photos to your heirs, or even to yourself after you no longer can take photos?

With more than 15,000 photos in Lightroom, that have involved many year-hours of editing, what solution are there to leave them for the future? Adobe say when you stop your subscription the photos remain in their un-edited state, in the folders originally set up. (for many of us that is date folders by years).

A less than satisfactory solution, which would take lots of work, is to export all of them, perhaps to a new file structure along the lines of your "collections" (if every photo is in a collection) but even then you loose the ability to search on all text like key words etc.

Anyone with a solution along the lines of a search and read-only, non subscription solution for years of work?

Is Lightroom losing value for me? No and it gets more valuable every day.

Lirghtroom handles 95% of my processing and 100% of the cataloging. The rest is in Photoshop. If you learn the Adobe tools, you will have little need for other products. In the end, do the others really give you a product that you cannot get in LR/PS? The cataloging is great. I can find photos in under three seconds in LR out of 50,000 pictures.

I am sure the other products are good with friendlier user-interfaces. Want to make life easier in LR? Create your own presets. I rarely spend more than three minutes on a picture in LR and I do not need an extra DNG or TIFF to take up space and time.

Try it. Maybe you will like it.

I number my cards and mark with a sharpie. I have a card for every day of a trip. Memory cards are cheap in comparison to losing photos I took. In the event a card is bad I only lose 1 day of my vacation or other event.

I also have a wd my passport pro that allows me to copy data from my memory cards to the drive without a computer. At the end of a day of shooting I copy all pictures from that days shooting to the drive. That way I have 2 copies of my pictures until I get home and can copy to my system.

I have a D7200 which has 2 slots. In slot 1 I record raw photos...in slot 2 I record jpg files. I don’t change card 2 unless it gets near full. It is a large card and can store a bunch of jpg files. So essentially I have 3 copies of my pictures. Jpgs would be better than nothing if I have a card failure.

Chuck