[Leica] Travel Pictures

[clive.moss at gmail.com (Clive Moss)]

I used to use pbase, like this:
http://www.pbase.com/chmoss/travel/
I switched to smugmug, like this:
http://clive.smugmug.com/Travel/

I switched because smugmug offered two features I wanted: economical 
storage of large files (they work with a bandwidth not a storage 
limitation), and the ability for visitors to order prints from the site 
(good for friends and family - goodbye ofoto)

My base storage at home is a time sequenced set of folders, with each 
individual image renamed as yyyy-mm-dd(hh.mm)OriginalName. In this way 
images from different cameras appear in one neat merged sequence, 
provided that I remember to synchronize the clocks and set them to the 
correct time zone. The renaming and folder creation is done in a program 
called pixfer (see http://www.glasslantern.com/) which can copy a set of 
pictures to two folder structures, rename them, and create folders based 
on date or other variables all in one swell foop.

My total image file structure is mirrored on an external Maxtor II 
Firewire drive.

So, everything is mirrored locally, and keepers are kep at smugmug as 
full resolution jpgs, which are viewed at reasonable sizes by all with 
whom I choose to share.

So far, it works for me.
-- 
Clive
Blog: http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/blog.html
Photos: http://clive.smugmug.com/
Web: http://www.clive.moss.net

on 7/14/2005 11:21 AM Jim Christie said the following:
> Alistair,
> 
> Thanks for your kind response to my self-analysis memo on why I shoot
> pictures. Also, I found your Europe trip thoughts interesting and it stirs 
> a
> question in my mind about what you will do with your photos from the trip.
> 
> I love to travel and take the pictures and enjoy them later, but I'm still
> looking for a consistent way of categorizing them, storing them and then
> sharing them. I've been storing everything on my hard drive and I know this
> is a bad/high risk thing to do and I need to off load them onto CDs or DVDs
> for more permanent storage. With the pictures (keepers) I may print them
> onto a contact sheet (usually 8 to 12 per sheet) and then maybe print some
> larger (8x10) and put the contact sheets and pictures and miscellaneous
> travel material into some type of presentation/display book.
> 
> What are your thoughts and suggestions for handling travel pictures? Other
> LUG members thoughts are also welcome.
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