[quote=ChrisKet]January 27 was the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It coincided with the only day my husband and I were visiting South Beach in Miami Beach, FL. There is a Holocaust Memorial there which we decided to visit. The memorial spans several blocks with a physical address of 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue; the street numbers that exactly match the years of the Nazi regime and its war against the Jews.


Unfortunately not only Jews, but also Gypsies and handicapped people.
It was a rotten time! While I was born shortly before the liberation of The Netherlands, I don't remember anything of that time. Heard plenty about it, as my parents and grandparents lived through it.
I do remember the aftermath of the war: discussions about family members and friends that had been sent to a concentration camp, some never to return; the use of ration coupons, zink coins, Mom cutting up her own garments to make a dress, skirt, blouse, pants, etc. for me and my brothers....
Dad was a photographer, but who had money for photos in those days? Fortunately Dad was willing to do any work available and so managed to keep his family fed.
There are very few photos surviving that were taken during the war, my brother has them now.
I have asked him to scan them and then e-mail me the scans....

Learned from my Dad some 65-70 years ago:
Hold the camera with left hand around the lens, thumb pointing to the right.
Right hand in a position that makes it easy to have your index finger on the shutter release.
If you wear glasses, take them off and adjust the diopter for your eye - the one you use to look through the viewfinder - I think the left eye for most people.
Push the camera against your nose and forehead, and push your elbows against your sides.
Have your feet a little apart. If necessary you could lean against a car, a wall, a tree....
Breath in, out, stop breathing and at the same time push the shutterbutton.
It may take a bit of practice, so don't give up after trying this once or twice!
And oh, don't forget to start breathing normally again!

Have you ever asked them if they would like to see them?
I suspect that the answer will be "yes".
If so, look at the contents of the album together with them, and tell them the stories that go with the photos.
Plan ahead: have some candies or cookies on hand, and some soft drinks or coffee (depending on their ages).
Save the edibles and drinkables till you're finished looking at the photos, and while you're enjoying the snacks, ask them if they have any questions they would like answered about the photos and the people in them.

What am I doing? Mostly making sure that there are four copies of each photo! Some time ago, at a family gathering, one of the daughters-in-law asked if she could have a particular album "later".
The other three promptly asked if she would also get the photos of their husbands then!
I didn't make any promises at that time, but have since started to make three more sets of albums, so that when my time comes to leave this earth, each can have one set, and they will all be the same.
It's a fair bit of work, but I kind of enjoy doing it as well - sure brings back memories for me: the oldest pictures in "my" album date from 1969, when our oldest son was born.

Maybe we should also clarify whether we're discussing USA copyright or Canadian copyright.
I'm in Canada. As soon as I commit something to paper or to my computer's hard drive it is copyrighted for my life plus 50 years (or could be 70, will have to look that up again).
I don't have to register it, it will still be my copyright. Proving it will be the difficult part.

The reason given in the original post, was that this kind of signature is not obvious, is overlooked, and would be acceptable in a court of law as proof of who owned the photo.

One way I read about a long time ago, but have never actually tried:
Make a stamp of your signature, then place that on the photo in several places: in hair, on a skirt, etc.: all places where you would not expect to find a signature stamp. Select a colour that is very close to the area where you place the stamp. I was told at one time that even using the identical colour of the background, that stamp could still be found afterwards as it changes something in the pixels.
OK, techies, your turn to explain why this would work.

Are scrapbooks not also a form of photo album?
I still have quite a lot more photos to do, but so far have made scrapbooks/photo albums for several of the grand children. As much as possible, chronological order of the photos, and smallish blocks of writing on each page.
The kids love them and often when they come to visit, they'll grab one of the albums before they even say "Hallo Oma".
Most of the comments are not about the photos of themselves, but those of my childhood and before, my parents and grandparents and their generations.
One of the neatest things that has come out of this: One of the granddaughters, now 16 years old, looks very much like one of my aunts. This aunt passed away when I was about twelve years old. I see the likeness, and I have to photo of this aunt; putting that photo and one of my granddaughter side-by-side, she sees the likeness as well. It makes the old photos even more cherished!
Yes, soft pencil is good to note on the back: the date (if known), and the names of the people in the photo, and even how they are related.

When our son got married in 2011 there were at least 5 or 6 people shooting photos. It was an outdoor wedding and no lack of space, so no problems with photographers being in each other's way.
I had asked for copies of their photos, because I had promised to make a photobook for them.
Unfortunately for me, I only asked after all the photos were taken, and no two cameras were synchronised for time.
One of them had brought a laptop and was able to copy all the photos onto a DVD for me! Each set in a separate folder. When I went through them to remove the ones I didn't want to use for the photobook, and was wondering how I was ever going to get the photos in chronological order for the book.
It proved to be quite easy, although a fair bit of work!
There were a couple of moments where everyone had taken a photo at about the same time: When he put the ring on her finger, and right after the minister said "you may kiss your bride!"
It was easy to figure out the cameratime difference between the sets with the help of these two sets of shots.
I used the time of my own camera as a starting point, as that morning I had set the camera time to the large clock in the hotel's entrance hall. From the photos taken of the ring-moment, and the kiss, it was easy to figure out the time difference between the cameras. Took a lot of math, but I managed to do them all in an afternoon.
The book I made for them, now 11 years ago, is still on their coffee table, and looking rather dog-eared!
So, if you have to combine photos from different cameras, just look for photos that were taken at (almost) the same moment by each camera, and do the math from there. The extra work of calculating minutes and seconds will be well worth it to get the photos in the correct order!

PS - I use PSE, not PS or Lightroom.

Confusing, to say the least!
From the time I started to work on my photos on the computer, I was told that dpi is a measurement used by a printer, and ppi is a measurement of the image itself.

When I was still using my desktop computer, I could enlarge an image on the screen to the point where I could see the individual pixels as small squares, and even count them.
Never been able to do that with ppi, or at least I've never seen an explanation how dpi relates to ppi.

Maybe one of you smart ones could educate me on that?

When I look at a photograph...
If it is one I took myself, I usually decide quickly if it's a keeper or not.
If I look at a photo someone else took, it's not up to me to decide if it's a keeper or not. However, if it seems the photographer is open to critique or suggestions, I will make suggestions. I try to do that in a positive way, even if the photo is a bad one!
BTW, I rarely look at my own photos within a few days after taking them: after several days I can be much more critical of my own photos!

Exactly! I visited a frame shop, told them what I needed the glass for, and they gave me a piece of glass that was intended for the garbage, too small for any frame work they had to do. It was a good quality no-glare glass.
At home I covered all four edges with packing tape, the kind that looks like it could be thin plastic and has "silk" threads running lengthwise through this tape. On each of the corners I left an extra inch or so of the packing tape, simply folded it with sticky sides together, to have "handles" to easily place the glass on top the negatives on the scanner, and to equally easily lift it off again, without fear of putting fingerprints where I didn't want or need them!

Now, I assume that with "Victoria Island" (which is located in the arctic) you mean the capital city of British Columbia, Victoria, which is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island and just a hop and a skip from the city of Vancouver.
Congratulations on your anniversary! We beat you by 3 years! Instead of going to "the Island" (where we lived for some twenty years) we went to a location close to the border with the province of Alberta, a location approximately the same travel distance for all four our boys and their families. Spent a long weekend there, and it was fun, relaxing and unforgettable. Wishing the same nice memories for you!
Make sure your camera is "shooting ready" and you have one or two spare SD cards at hand, for the crossing from Victoria to Vancouver, there are some neat scenes to take photos of.

Neither. I look at the overall photo: do I like it? If yes, it's a keeper. I may touch it up here and there afterwards, but I have to like the photo at first glance to keep it.

I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned a spare battery....
My camera battery charger and the spare battery both live in my camera bag.
I hadn't used my camera for probably 4 or 5 weeks, and when I put it away the battery in the camera had already been well used. After a day or so of shooting, it was drained. Replaced it with the spare, and happily carried on, even after that spare had been in my camera bag for so many weeks.