a week or so ago someone posted about having lost their project after being away for some time... as was pointed out, it is our own individual responsibility for preserving our projects - and i couldn't agree more... but this is making me wonder how folks do this?
i have all my photos saved in various places, and i don't really do much of a write-up (my project isn't a diary) so i'm not really worried about it...
but every once in a while i think i might want to journal, with photos... i know there are apps for this, but they are all online too... and this has me wondering where one can do this without the risk of it all going "poof" if a website or app shuts down... do you just copy everything to blurb or shutterfly as you go and print at the end of the year? copy to word? other??
I journal with my photos as I post them, both here on 365 Project and on Flickr. (I don't think I am being very helpful but it seems the obvious way to do it....)
I don't usually do much "narrative", and I don't have any sort of backup process for what I do. the images, of course get backed up a couple of places.
I do have a blog, and many of my photos from here end up there (and vise-versa). Sometimes with more text, sometimes with different text, sometimes with less text. Just depends on my mood.
After another photo site I used went "poof", I made a complete copy of my project over on SmugMug, pulling over all the narrative via a manual process (with a bit of screen-scraping). I already had all the photos tagged and stored in Lightroom.
I also do an annual Blurb book. Every day I copy that day's photo into their BookSmart app with my blurb (no pun intended...) and get it printed in January.
I have created a Word document where I copy (select the page content, ctrl c, ctrl v) every day the 365 Project page from the day before, as it is. It contains the picture, my narrative, the received comments, the picture statistics, etc... The page copy also includes my profile information and the "latest from your albums" but I just have to delete these uninteresting parts on the Word copy. The whole thing takes less than 1 minute. At the end of the month, I have a Word file with all my project pages sequentially. It is readable like a book, even by someone else.
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I do have a blog, and many of my photos from here end up there (and vise-versa). Sometimes with more text, sometimes with different text, sometimes with less text. Just depends on my mood.
I also do an annual Blurb book. Every day I copy that day's photo into their BookSmart app with my blurb (no pun intended...) and get it printed in January.