Organized by Gigi

07/07/2026

Where to start organizing physical photos? I am going to do a series of posts taking you through a sorting project I am working on.

THE GREAT GATHERING

SUPPLIES:
• Table and shelves to collect photos.
• Pencil and Post-its to label scrapbooks and boxes.
• Storage totes to hold everything
• Small bins to hold flash drives

Go through the basement, attic, and living room shelves. Find the flash drives hidden in drawers and in old cameras or phones. Set up a collecting zone. If you still have photos at a parent's house, now is the time to get them. Don't forget the VHS and camcorder tapes along with slides and negatives and photo cd’s.

Helpful Hint 1: Put a Post-it on the front of scrapbooks and bins with a brief description of what it contains. Include the family names and dates if possible.

Helpful Hint 2: Keep negatives and photos inside the photo envelopes for now, but write a brief description on the outside.

Helpful Hint 3: Take photos out of frames if possible unless they are in the original cardboard frame.

03/05/2026

Before digital!

We didn’t take 200 photos to find one good one.

We got 24 chances.

That was it.

You snapped the picture and hoped for the best.

No previews.

No filters.

No deleting.

A week later you opened that envelope like it was Christmas morning.

Half were blurry.

One had someone blinking.

One was perfect.

And that one mattered more because you couldn’t fake it.

Those photos weren’t curated.

They were real.

And somehow that made them better.

Do you still have a stack of old prints in a drawer somewhere?

03/04/2026

01/28/2026

This pretty much sums up a lot of my clients digital photos. If you need help cleaning up your digital photos let me know!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1180281590937886

01/09/2026

If this year your goal is to organize photos and memorabilia, I plan to post helpful hints and tips each week as I work on my own photo projects and my customers'.

Fun fact: The World Takes Over 1.5 Trillion Photos Per Year (and 92% Are on Smartphones)

At the peak of the film era in 2000, we took an estimated 80 billion photos in that single year. We now take that many photos every two weeks. Current estimates put the total number of photos taken annually at over 1.5 trillion, and the vast majority (over 92%) are captured not with Canons or Nikons, but with smartphones. To put this in perspective: we now take almost as many photos every year as were taken in roughly half of the entire 20th century.

Photography is full of surprising history, weird technical quirks, and fascinating stories that even experienced photographers might not know. From the mathematical precision behind f-stops to cameras abandoned on the moon, these facts reveal just how wild the world of photography really is. 1. The....