Comments on: How To Choose Your Best Vacation Photos

By: Noell

Noell — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:49:00 +0000

BTW, Janette — I just realized you asked this back in March and it just showed up in my in-box today, in July! Sorry about that!

By: Noell

Noell — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:49:00 +0000

BTW, Janette — I just realized you asked this back in March and it just showed up in my in-box today, in July! Sorry about that!

By: Noell

Noell — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:47:00 +0000

I like to do tasks in batches so I can get into a flow. That means I sit down and play with my photos on my computer during a free time one day, and then when I need photos again, I have my best photos ready for me to print. So I’ll order a group (small batches, enough for me to scrapbook over a few weeks) from my one-hour photo service at Costco and then go pick them up. Lately they’ve been landing on my desk but I’m working on finding a tray or cleaning out a drawer for them to sit until I’m ready to scrapbook.

When I want to scrapbook I like to have photos ready. I don’t want to get on my computer for photos when what I really want to do is start playing with paper.

By: Noell

Noell — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:47:00 +0000

When I want to scrapbook I like to have photos ready. I don’t want to get on my computer for photos when what I really want to do is start playing with paper.

By: Jessytramontana

Jessytramontana — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:14:00 +0000

Sounds like all of your projects from this trip (to my home State) are going to be absolutely priceless!

By: 1jannette

1jannette — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:24:00 +0000

Love this article Noel! Write now an overwhelming feeling of working with my photos is one of my identified obstacles for scrapbooking. And not having them ready to work on a page. Your article is great and I will put it in practice this week. One question that I have for you is do you print your photos as soon as you finish choosing them? Do you have them ready and organized in a place for when you sit down to scrapbook? Or do you print them later? Thanks!

By: Noell

Noell — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:49:34 +0000

That's awesome, Karen!

By: Kpoirier-brode (ladydoc)

Kpoirier-brode (ladydoc) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:20:49 +0000

My last big vacation I took over 6000 pictures. I like architectural details. Hard to know how to scrap them but fun to shoot pictures. My interest was so apparent that towards the end of my tour folks in my tour group were pointing out interesting doors, windows and tile patterns to me! LOL! I love going through the pictures. All those details make me happy. Not so sure others want to look at all of these though; so, have not printed them out. Good tips for picking the photos that I would want to scrap though.

By: jill in Frisco, Tx

jill in Frisco, Tx — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:26:21 +0000

I love that you refer to, "telling the story", as much as I love all the beautiful layouts that are posted all over the WWW so many of them tell the story of how many embellishments a person has purchased. Making a layout or multiple layouts to tell the story of an event or vacation not only captures it for years to come but it's also a wonderful time in which to relive it yourself. Thanks for the outlined thought process, no matter how you get to the end result, remember that creating the memories for the future is also a journey. Enjoy it!
http://jillslifeadventure.blogspot.com/2010/09/some-layouts.html#comments
~Jill

By: PomMommy

PomMommy — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:38:32 +0000

Loved it Noell! I love concise check lists that I can use to quickly make decisions. I'll be putting this one in my stash. Perfect timing too. I've just printed over 700 pictures from a trip my family and I took to Virginia. This will help me pair down my choices even more!

Another idea I've been pondering is to break down the trip into smaller projects. I was initially going to do one huge album but I've come to realize there are several aspects of the trip that don't have to be lumped together in one style.
* The trip was for my grandfathers 100th birthday. So the big party is one mini album.
* We stayed at his old home, so I was able to go around an take pictures of the rooms and all the little baubles I was so fascinated with as a child. That sounds like an Altered Book calling my name.
* I was able to enjoy the "family reunion" aspect as each of the 64 out of 65 family members arrived over a few days.
*Oh, yeah. and his birthday is the day after Christmas so we had the holiday there too. I know those will be pages in a Christmas album as well as part of a chronological albums I still maintain.

So, after 5 years of being intimidated by this daunting project, I have finally started printing the photos and am re-excited about it. By breaking that big trip down into many smaller projects, I'm feeling this is more do-able.

Thanks so much for the spark!
Claudia