If you are the designated photographer when travelling or attending events, you will quickly end up with more photos than you might know what to do with. You need to think about potentially organising, archiving, and potentially even printing your photos. Here are some of the reasons why it might be a good idea to do so!

You only have limited space on your gadgets. Though you might be a fan of moving your photographs across onto an external hard drive, there is no guarantee that you are not going to just end up with a load of hard drives and little idea as to what is on each one.

Even if your photos automatically upload to the cloud when you take them, there is no guarantee that you won’t rapidly fill up your space. Learning how to correctly archive and delete pictures that you definitely don’t want to hang onto will be key. It does not matter what type of system you want to use here, so long as it is one that you can understand and makes sense for you.

You need to consider how you are going to store photos if not on hard drives. One way to archive and store your old photos is with the use of a photobook. This allows you to organise and print photos in any manner that you might choose.

You could even choose to do so just from a Facebook album! If you have already curated a selection of photos in this way, half the job is already done for you. All you will then need to do is send it to be printed, and you will have the photobook that you have always dreamed of, ready to show off.

If you keep everything jumbled and unorganised between your phone and various clouds and hard drives, you won’t know where to look when you want to reminisce or revisit your memories. Who wants to end up scrolling for hours with no idea about where to look for the right photo? Yes, you might find lots on the way, but you could also not even find the one you were looking for originally!

By correctly archiving and storing your files, you will always know where to look for exactly the right photograph – whatever it might be! Organise your photos, and you will always be able to reminisce when you want to!

Organising your photos and choosing some to print off will always be a fantastic endeavour and could be a project that occupies you for quite some time. The above reasons are just some of the many factors that could come into play when thinking about whether or not you should archive your photos. Think carefully about the types of photobook that you would create, and then see what it would take to bring them to life. No matter how many photos you take, you can be certain that they will always be organised!