Trip photo organization

[laura&fam]

I'm trying to organize my photos from my last DL trip and I was wondering how other people organize photos and why.

Like does it make more sense to scrap Mickey all together or put some Mickey photos with Toon Town and others elsewhere. Do you scrap by event or by character or chronologically (which would basicly match event) or some other way all together? Normally I'm obsessive with the chronological thing, but perhaps I can make an exception for a trip.

 

[hopemax]

I tend to scrap primarily chronologically, but I will move individual pictures around if I have a bigger layout elsewhere. So if I have a single photo of something in Fantasyland, but later in the trip I have a bunch of Fantasyland shots, I will move the single photo to the bigger bunch. Or if I have a bunch of a specific type of thing, taken at different times, I will combine them. These might be characters, food, trash cans, flowers.

 

[coneygoil]

I tend to be a bit obsessive about chronological order too, but lately it's been overwhelming since we take SO many pics between me, mom, dad, and even my husband this last trip to WDW. I've come to the conclusion that organizing by theme is much more simple for a ton of pics to scrap. I made my mom a memory book for her birthday last month and organized by theme. It came out very well! I did, for example, resort shots, animals, characters, new friends, random park shots, etc. I'm trying to do that now with my scrapbook I just started for our last trip.

 

[wdwmickey]

I organize WDW by theme too

 

[katied]

I tend to scrap Disney by theme. So, from our Dec trip, I had the following 2 page spreads:

Intro page (1 page)
MK
Epcot
AK
DHS
Swimming
Chef Mickey/Crystal Palace (1 on ea page)
Donald's Breakfast
Other food - DS making a mess of himself with various food treats (he was 2 1/2)
Closing page (1 page)

In the past, I've done 2 page spreads with character greetings - so it would make sense to me to have various Mickey pictures all together.

With my journeling, I tell the story of the trip - normally in my intro page or closing page I put the schedule from the trip, and then throughout I just tell the story of the pictures on that page. I may put dates by things, if it makes sense.

Hope this helps.

 

[bigbabyblues]

I tend to do my WDW albums by park, then by attraction. The first trip I scrapped by day, but park by park seems easier to me. If things are out of a park, like mini golf or whatever, they get their own pages, and I put them in where hey fit. If I have one page of DTD, and I end Epcot with a one page LO, I may put DTD in there.

It works better for me if I sort them and the scrap them in that order, but I haven't done that with the 2008 trip I'm working on now, and I'm struggling to finish it and put it together. I've just done page by page, whatever the mood strikes for, and I have a mess. I'm almost ready to start on 2009, and I'm going to either make myself do it in the order by park, or if I want to skip over some pages and return to them, I'm going to leave space in the album with a sticky note.

Steph

 

[kwitcherkicken99]

It drives my mom nuts, but I don't scrap chronologically...

For WDW I scrap by park. All MK, all EP, all DHS, all AK, etc. It really just depends on what I have photo-wise and how I'm feeling that day.

Since you're working with DLR, I would maybe group by lands. It doesn't bother me to see people in different clothes from page to page. Especially if there is an attraction/character that one of my kids goes bananas over... For example, last year we spent 4 days at WDW... met and got an autograph from Mickey each day. DS couldn't get enough so we kept going. Made for a cute page.

 

[sohappy]

I scrap by day. My first page is always a summary of what we did that day, funny things that happened or the kids said, what they really loved (or hated), just a full page journal of what we did for the day. Sometimes I will pull pictures out and add them to the back of my album- like an ice cream page of the boys eating different ice creams around various parks or maybe a page about our resort.