Remembering Vacations

[sam_gordon]

I just finished the video for our family vacation last month (in my signature) and it made me wonder what/if anything, others do to memorialize their vacations (whether to Disney or anywhere).

Scrapbook
Photobook
Edited Video
Nothing
Something else

I like the videos, but man, they're a lot of work. As are the other things, I know.

Do you ever go back and look/watch at whatever you did? The screen saver on our desktop computer randomly cycles through photos on the hard drive, so we'll occasionally see things there too.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Prayers you and your family enjoyed a safe and wonderful vacation, Sam.

Dad and I, God willing l, will take pictures for frames and scrapbooks at Disneyland next MayI would love to sometime get a Disney Christmas ornament as a festive reminder of the blessing of a trip.

Years ago I did collect pressed pennies and miniature animals from trips, too.

Fun Monday morning question

 

[fla4fun]

It varies really. When I take photos and videos at WDW, I don’t do much more than organize them on my computer. There are far too many to do anything else really. I do look at them and watch the videos between trips.

If I go somewhere that could possibly be a one and done, like my first trip to the UK or for a special event/occasion, then I print the photos and make an album, or have a book printed, in addition to the digital storage.

 

[Southernmiss]

Facebook and Google memories.

I'll scroll albums in my phone, too

 

[ronandannette]

We’re finally putting the finishing touches on decor after a year-long reno of our new house. We just got done choosing three vacation photos of iconic landmarks (the Eiffel Tower, Niagara Falls and Emerald Lake) to have framed and hang gallery-style in our living room. It will be very special.

 

[Pooh2]

I do a photo book of each family vacation, big occasion and each grandchild's birthday.
I make prints of the favorite images to preserve and some to display.
My grandkids enjoy looking at them.

 

[Meriweather]

Scrap book......I have many. I just do ones with the grand kids now and family vacations.
I put mine and DH's trips in photo books and all left over from scrap booking.
They are all saved on an external hard drive.
I have walls full of family pictures too.

We do go back to look at them sometimes.

 

[Chirple]

When we took our cruise to Alaska in 2011, I decided I was going to keep a daily journal. I would save blank pages for each day. Once home I printed out the photos that my words were describing and pasted them in the book. I did this again with our Mediterranean and Baltics cruises. I kept a daily journal for the WBTA.

Otherwise, the photos live in my cloud storage.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I’m okay with keeping my memories of vacations mostly private which definitely clashes with the thoughts of many people in my family, .

As a compromise to the man’s wants/needs, I’d buy a “souvenir” as long as it was utilitarian and/or esthetically appealing. A useful stance for the two of us and the man came to appreciate it.

 

[RedAngie]

Mostly just photos on phone. Very rarely will we get a print made.

Occasionally we’ll buy a souvenir booklet with photos, refrigerator magnets, or other trinkets.

 

[kdonnel]

One trip I found my daughter kept a journal, recording just the odd things that happened, on our vacations.

It turns out she did it on most trips but this go around had shared the note.

After that trip my son started doing the same.

Some of the things are nonsensical, most make sense when I read them as it triggers my memory of the same event. I found it fascinating what she thought to record as important or interesting.

Europe 2015

Day 1- Rome
- everyone watching each other to see when to get off train at airport
- pass ambulance
- chicachica boom
- seat belts opposite
- power out
- guy taking our luggage could sing
- they speak so quietly
- stole from fruit basket

Day 2- Rome
- mom got lost at train
- sunflowers
- all Italian kids wore speedos
- rfid coke machine to work
- acappella
- sunshine, moonlight, good times
- y'all's dance moves are great

Day 3- Naples, Pompeii, Positano
- shat harding
- two day old car
- no traffic lights
- no turn signal
- stole sand
- people came to help at Pompeii and got buried, different layers

Day 4- At sea
- girl opening and closing the door
- walking on wrong side
- Sydney Sweeney
- thank you for wearing a sweater to this
- if ur gonna give me a 1, use another finger, rock on, jazz hands, loser sign
- pushed them in pool with phone
- Andrew Bartlett
- giant cake
- bingo, booo!

Day 5- Barcelona
- lots of people got on
- dude kept falling on the ice
- kid brought own skates, was good
- teenage mutant ninja turtles

Day 6- Palma de Mallorca
- couldn't tell guys from girls
- naked bike ride
- every time I snapchat you it costs 60¢
- well go down fast now in elevator
- mom pushed button, kid got mad, his mom shushed him, kid left and said something to mom in Italian, mom said lo siento
- Kelsey saying I have to tell u something

Day 7- Marseilles
- elephants inside
- hit a bird
- Evelyn with dad, Sarah with mom
- throwing wasabi
- eggs boy or girl
- put the egg in her mouth
- opening packs of butter
- whole egg
- shredding movie tickets

Day 8- La Spezia
- gave receipt to mom as souvenir
- pickpocket grabbed by hair
- I don't know how I'm doing
- oober free ride
- super windy, pretend like wind pushed dad into ship
- guy went to lock the door

Day 9- Rome
- boxes of stuff

Day 10- Brussels
- post it not on dash
- bus driver falling asleep
- cia drivers license
- interview process
- broke her tape
- car blasting at us

Day 11- Brussels
- ring da ding ding ding
- blowing in bottles
- jumping with soccer ball
- fluffy and cuddly confused

Day 12- Brussels
- projectile toast
- mohawk

Day 13- Paris
- machine gun motorcycles

Day 14- Paris
- sprint up escalators
-bike
-guy in mask
- throwing fireworks
- girl from Bulgaria

Day 15- Paris
- watching traffic
- no insurance inside the circle
- break dancers

blew horn at Trace

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I am not big on displaying physical pictures, so all of my efforts are digital and are more preservation minded. Now if everything web related falls apart, I'm in deep trouble, but for now...it's just making sure all of my pics wind up in digital storage and all of my videos make it to my YouTube account. I maintain an account with Flickr just so anything on my phone is automatically uploaded and stored. Flickr will also take the videos, but I also load those to YouTube since it's a better application for playback. I do have a couple of DSLRs that I will take on trips. The newer one is wifi enabled, but photos compress a little when being moved to my phone, so I prefer a computer upload process using my memory cards and a card reader. YouTube at least has sort and search for me to find what I want when I want to see it. Flickr has search, but I can also dig through my camera roll chronologically or shift things to digital albums for easier retention. I used to be really good about labeling pics, but it became such a chore, so date is my best bet.

 

[_19disnA]

Agree it depends on the vacation. Over the years I have found that if your main goal it to take a lot of memorable photos, then you are going to be spending a lot of your vacation time finding that perfect spot, lugging around camera equipment, etc. Even if that is something YOU enjoy doing, what about the other family members you are with who aren't that into photography? On some vacations it would be a pain to lug around camera equipment all day for just a couple of shots. If you want postage stamp sized pictures to post online somewhere, then your phone is probably good enough. If you are looking to take high resolution pictures to enlarge and mount on the wall at home, some sort of digital camera is preferable. If this is some 'once in a lifetime' vacation, planning/taking more pictures probably makes more sense. Most of the time rather enjoy the vacation instead of being so overly focused on picture taking. Snapping a few good shots for a picture to frame on the mantle is usually good enough for us for most vacations.

Have never bothered with video as it would seem to take a LOT more preparation and then the movement/action/voice would seem scripted and artificial. Not sure how you would use the resulting product. Still pictures are way less work. Not a big fan of posting pictures/video online and never sure who the intended audience would be.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

We kept a journal during our first ever Sisters Trip, which was in April of 1994. It's a black spiral notebook written in both our hands because we took turns writing every night when we got back to the hotel. It had become dog eared and fragile over the years, and I half-jokingly said to my sister that I should type it up, and she leapt on that and said I should and that if I did it up right with photos and captions as I wrote she could have it printed as a book because she had a friend who worked for a printer. So I did. I used photos from the trip along with clip art, and two different fonts to represent our handwriting. She took the PDF I made and had six copies printed. It's our favorite souvenir of all our trips.

 

[sam_gordon]

If you want postage stamp sized pictures to post online somewhere, then your phone is probably good enough.

While I used to bring DSLR and video cameras (Sony Handicam style, nothing huge), for the trip last month, it was just everyone's phones (DW & I use Android, everyone else was iPhone) and a Go Pro. "Postage stamp sized pictures" haven't come out of phones in decades(?). Photos out of my phone were 56"x32". DSLRs were used by the excursion operators (to sell stills).

As far who who the audience is for a video... basically the family for memories. Online because it's the easiest way to share the finished product.