When you are busy enjoying your Disney Parks vacation, you want to try and capture as much of the magic as possible. From special Magic Shots with Disney’s PhotoPass to quick selfies with your loved ones, we tend to bring back a lot of happily documented memories. The question then becomes, what do you do with them? The worst thing you can do is leave them sitting only on your phone’s camera roll, doomed to a life of only being searched for when the reminder dawns. We’ve all got those one or two shots that are truly magical enough to find their way onto a wall-hung picture frame, but let’s not let the rest of those memories be forgotten about in silence; I have the solution.
Gone are the days when we had the time and inclination to have photos individually printed and then arrange them in a photo album. They were wonderful, but many of us rarely have the time to spend on this, especially if we have eagerly returned to work to book and pay for the next trip away. Every vacation we go on, I like to gather all of our photos that have been collected over the trip and arrange them into a printed photobook. It’s a quick project I can do in one evening, send it away, and have someone else print it for me. The books line up perfectly in my cabinet, and they are so much fun to browse through and relive those precious memories. As a bonus, it makes showing our trip to family and friends so much easier, offering a book for them to flip through rather than trying to bring up specific photos on the phone.
As an added bonus to this practice, I like to use the time to delete any of the duplicate photos I don’t need. You know, the one shot you took ten photos of in case someone in the group was blinking? Now’s a good time to eliminate those sub-par photos and keep the killers. It will make searching for them in your photo folder a whole lot easier in the future, too. Sometimes, I even like to get a headstart on this practice at the end of each Disney day by uploading the keepers to my Snapfish account right there and then. It also offers a nice moment to reflect on the enormity of the day we had and appreciate every little moment we achieved together.
That’s my Disney vacation photo-saving hack. What do you think? Is this the best way to store those memories? Let us know how you keep your photos to best remember those magical moments.
