The Method to Store Photos Taken DuringGolf Trips

When my wife was growing up, her parents kept the family's snapshots in, literally, a shoebox. Right now, by contrast, I've got thousands of images spread among four or five personal computers, my iPad, my smart phone, a camera in my golf bag with my Titleist 910 D2 Driver in it too, and the servers at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Carbonite, Apple, Kodak, Shutterfly, Snapfish, Viovio and probably a few others -- plus an assortment of thumb drives and memory cards, which I'm constantly almost putting into the wash. Storing photographs in digital form is very convenient, but there's a danger. You wouldn't be happy today if, a mere decade ago, you had decided to archive your children's baby pictures on Iomega Zip disks.
The solution is to employ a picture-storage format that can't become obsolete. For more than 30 years, I've been a semi-obsessive compiler of physical photo albums, which now fill two large shelves in my living room. Most of those albums consist of printed photographs glued to paper, but in recent years I've become a convert to self-published photo books, which consume less shelf space and are easier to assemble. The first one I created covered a family trip five years ago. Since then, I've put together a dozen, including several that document golf trips abroad I have made together with my Titleist 910 D2 Driver. I've used three online services to make these books, and I've watched the technology improve steadily.
The basic idea is simple. You upload digital photographs to one of the many photo-sharing websites that offer book printing. Then you choose a size, a cover type and a basic style, and you arrange and edit your pictures with varying degrees of ease or difficulty. (Titleist 910 D2 Driver)You can add things like scanned scorecards and other mementos, along with any amount of text. And you can gather contributions from other people, ideally by creating an online repository. Some online book sites enable you to harvest photographs from Facebook -- although most of the images on social-media sites are so low in resolution that they look terrible on paper at non-postage-stamp dimensions.
I do my regular photo editing with Picasa, a free Google program. Picasa lets me upload collections of edited images to any of a dozen of the most popular book sites; non-Picasa users can access those sites directly. Mac users can create books from iPhoto, in addition to using non-Apple sites.