Digital Travel Photography Digital Field Guide

Chapter 7. Backing Up and Sharing Your Images

In This chapter

• Backing up your photos on the road

• Sharing images while traveling

One of the best things about travel is the chance to get away from it all — meaning a temporary replacement of the elements of your everyday life with new sights, sounds, foods, customs, people, and surroundings. Getting away from it all also means new photographic opportunities. Whether you're just traveling across your home state or province, across the country, or even across an ocean, what is commonplace at your destination can present new and exciting things to photograph.

Getting away from it all also means that you'll want to share your new experiences with your friends, family, and colleagues back home. "Having a wonderful time; wish you were here!" is never truer than when you've got some great photos to show to others. Fortunately, sharing your images has never been easier, and you don't even have to wait until you get home.

Before digital cameras, even the traveler couldn't enjoy photographs that had been taken until returning home and dropping rolls of film off at the lab. The only options were to have the film processed while on the trip (practical only either if you planned to remain in the same location for awhile, or were willing to spend some valuable travel time at a one-hour photo retailer) or to use a film processing mailer to send your film on ahead for (with any luck) processing and delivery to your home by the time you got back. These ...