Here's what I do.
I travel with an Olympus film camera, a rugged but high-quality point-and-shoot, and 1 or 2 digital cameras which are Nikons. I shoot digital with crazy abandon, memory is cheap and plentiful. I'm a little more conservative with the film shots. Once I am back home I immediately send the film off for processing, glossy 4x6, and order the CD with the film scans on it. While that is happening I transfer the digital shots to the PC, back them all up on CDROM, then start making decisions as to which ones will be printed. I try to do as little touch up as possible. Next, I stock up on print cartridges and 4x6 premium photo paper for my Epson photo printer. Then, I spend an entire weekend and maybe 5 evenings printing at home. Cost works out to a smidge more than processing at the kiosk. I put my wife in charge of any uploading to the website. I don't like looking at photos on a screen, it simply doesn't do them justice. You lose so much color depth, detail and warmth on a standard monitor. Laptop screens are even worse for viewing.
Once everything is printed and in chronological order, its time to load the albums. I like the medium sized albums that you slide the photos inside the clear plastic, displaying 4 photos per page flip. There is also a space between photos to insert a paper caption label, which I do for every photo. Our last trip (to Iceland) netted us 400 *good* shots which loads 2 albums pretty full.
I am almost to the point of ditching the film camera altogether, maybe get a digital waterproof camera to go along with the main battle camera.
So, all this technology and bandwidth at our disposal and I still wind up with the same net result that my grandpa had; paper photos in cardboard albums. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The cleverest thing I do is shoot panoramas. ArcSoft has a panorama program called Panorama Maker and it works way better than any of the 4 other stitching programs I have tried. Once printed on 8" x 24" paper, the results are nothing short of spectacular.

I have a big shoe box on my closet shelf and they are all in there. LOL

As soon as I get home from any vacation, I download all my pics, choose the best ones, have them put on a CD (this replaces keeping negatives around) then print off the best ones from my CD and make a lovely scrapbook. If I don't do all this IMMEDIATELY when I get home, it just won't get done! I usually have to take an extra couple of days off work when I get home, just to take care of this task----which I enjoy!

Was there another thread comparing various photo-sharing sites? I'm looking ofr it to send to someone.

I do not recommend storing your photos on an independant web site. If you do, always keeps copies of the files yourself.

3-4 years ago, the biggest and best site went out of business overnight. No warning or anything. People lost all their files.

Also, if you changes e-mail address and fail to notify them, you will not get the renewl notice and they will delete the files.

Found this thread as I've been looking for choices to get my photos on a web site.

Wanted to say to Bob the Nav - I loved your Sicily photos. Beautiful and brought back great memories. Loved the Etna photos.

Thanks for sharing. SusanEva

Mille grazie !
You should know that my wife is named Susan---see her in the pics---and her mother was Eva. Interesting name to us.

Hello Bob,

I did see the lovely Mrs. Navigator in a few photos. Nice coincidence, my middle name comes from my grandmother.

I'm thinking that "Worldisround" might be the best place for me to put photos with short trip reports. I'm OK with computers, but not a whiz and feel a little intimidated to learn html to put my own web pages together.

How hard was it to get up to speed on that site? Are you pretty satisfied?

Thanks, SusanEva

I too am not a whiz but have been happy with that site. The only bad part is you can only upload 6 pics at a time. It does take time. Others swear by Pbase.com I suggest you edit down to only your best pics--I had more than 200 for Sicily but only used about 35. Ask yourself what others may want to see.

Thanks Bob. I agree about being selective. When I download my digitals, I keep them in an "original" file. They I edit, crop and delete to a "best of trip" file. (That way I always have the originals if I decide I cropped to much, etc.) I learned from showing my family that they really didn't want to see seven views of the church I really liked! For a web site, I was thinking about the "best of the best" and your ratio sounds about right.

Hey, this is great.

Just got back from vacation and have 720 photos! My two travelling companions have about 600 each!!! That's close to 2000 photos! Not to mention the little 5 second movies we took on our cameras.

We need to figure out how to make our photos and movies available to friends and family who want copies of their own. Plus, we met people on our trip who want copies.

What the heck should we do!!!! We don't want people to have to pay for prints. We would like them to be able to download jpeg's that they can photoshop for themselves. Is that possible????
With close to 2000 photos? (I know, who has the patience! But we figure we can divide them into folders.)

We looked at Shutterfly and Kodak Easy Share plus RitzPx and those all require the person to pay for prints.

Any other ideas? I see someone has mentioned Snapfish. Is that a good one?

Snapfish requires $$ for prints also though and is basically the same as Kodak (which used to be ofoto). (I don't understand how you would ever get prints for free)?

I really like www.flickr.com for organizing and displaying my pics online.

I don't think I'm really understanding what you want to do. Wouldn't the easiest thing be to put the pictures on disks and then give those to your friends? Emailing the pics would definitely take awhile with that number.

Ya, I will make CD sets for the friends that I travelled with, that's not a problem.

For the (many) people I met along the way, I would like to put the ball in their court, so to speak. I have all their emails so I can just do a mass email directing them to whatever service I decide to use.
I just didnt want them to pay too much. ( : And, I wanted the service to be easy to use with good quality prints.

Also, many of the people we met along the way live in other countries (Australia, Holland, e.g.). I am trying to figure out if they can order and have prints sent without any problems. Anyone know?

I think Shutterfly works internationally. I don't know if Snapfish or the others do. Anyone?

Thanks.

www.pbase.com not only works worldwide, but lots of outstanding photographers from all over use it. You can do a "search" to find photos of things such as "Iceland," "cassowary," "Puffin," "breadfruit..." Lots of out of the norm subjects as well as run of the mill.

Fantastic array of travel photographs. Check it out. PS, I do not work for them. I just pay them to park my photos.

PS.
Nix the rubberbands around the photos. They melt and stick to the photos. Also a "band of photos" may meld together over a decade or two.

I was totally dismade to find family photos had turned a muddy brown and clumped together because they hadn't been stored correctly in the 1980's.

If you listen to scrapbookers (I'm not one) you'll hear the only way to store photos is on special papers, non-acid, I believe.

ttt--in the last ten months we have actually taken and downloaded so many pictures to our computer that it is notably slower.

When I finally get around to fixing this, I'm sure I will need the insight (or entertainment) here!

Thanks! --MP :)

I try to get my pictures into a scrapbook as soon as possible. I find that scrapbooks are much more enjoyable to look at than just a bunch of pictures, and they are great keepsakes of our trips. My kids love helping me design the pages and write descriptions.

I have my own web site and wrote the selection/display program my self.

Unfortunately I upload more and more photos with each successive trip.

Our last trip to Prague, Budapest, Brugge and Amsterdam was the first that I went digital. Rather than fewer photos I had many more.

I took over 600 in two weeks and got fed up with filtering out at about 125.

My web site is:

www.travelwalks.com

All trips before 2006 are cheap scans of 4x6 photos and the quality is definitely nowhere near as good as the last trip.

My wife takes a quick look at all the photos and picks which she wants for an album to show. What's in her album and what's on the web site may not be the same.

I try to tell the story. She leans more towards photos that include us.

I back up the photos to DVD and store them off-site with other irreplacable valuables.

I use a photo website, called photosite. I lived abroad (in Asia) for a year and found it was the easiest way for my friends and family to check in when they wanted to see what new pictures I posted. It was also so much easier than emailing them and clogging everyone's emails. I continue to use it now that I am back home, since I travel often.

I usually print some of my favourites and blow them up and frame them for my own little art gallery at home. Why buy art, when you can showcase the world, right in your own living room.

Recently i've been using both snapfish and yahoo photo sites. I like the yahoo since that's my normal email account, but I like snapfish for the low cost prints, frequent special offers (recently 9c/print sale), etc.