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In just over a week, I head to Scotland for a weeklong trip with 12 total strangers! I'm excited and plan on taking lots of photos.

Here's how I manage photos while I travel so I can A) Keep track of them all and B) Do something with them when I get home.

Note: I have an iPhone but I'm sure you could do this with Android as well.

Step 1: Before I leave for vacation I create an album on my phone called "Scotland 2025"
​Step 2: Every day I add the photos I take from my phone to the album (they stay in the main camera roll too which annoys me)
​Step 3: If I travel with my husband, I airdrop pictures from my husband's phone to mine and add them to the album daily

This way all of the photos from the trip are in one place. I don't include random screenshots in the album, just photos I'd actually want to print. That's one of the points of having a separate album.

Step 4: Each day or two I go through and prune the photos. The nice lady that took a picture of our family last year at Universal Studios took 5 pictures. I don't need 5. I kept 2 (one had a better background and one was better of us 😂)

Step 5: When I get home I'll have all the photos I want in ONE spot and can upload that album to Dropbox (where I store my photos) easily and then to a program to print a photo book.

Step 6: Once I've got the photos saved to Dropbox, I will delete the entire album and photos from my phone. Shocking, I know. I don't need them on my phone. I have them saved on Dropbox and have printed the ones I want.

Side Note: Once a quarter I backup my Dropbox photos to an external hard drive.

Bonus Thought: You do NOT need 200 photos from a week long trip. You don't. Think back to the days of actual cameras with physical film. You took 48, maybe 72 photos on a trip (2-3 rolls of 24 photos). Your world will not end, you will not be a bad parent, if you don't have hundreds of photos. No one wants to look at that many photos. #SorryNotSorry Look at step 4 again. Be ruthless when you decide which photos to keep. What would I do with 5 nearly identical photos of my family?

That's it! A little planning ahead and a few seconds each day and my photos from this trip will be easily organized and ready to be printed in a book so I can actually look at and enjoy them! Then I can delete them from my phone, cut the clutter, and save storage space.

DON'T LET THE PHOTOS OVERWHELM YOU!

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