I have experienced lovely moments, being in nature with friends, experiencing a stunning sunset, when the moment was ruined by some who were more occupied taking selfies with "we're so awsome!" faces. I prefer moment and memory over photo.
Then I inherited a couple of albums of photos from my mother when she died (long ago). A lot of pictures of flowers and landscapes none of which is in itself beautiful enough to be of any purpose for me. And a lot of pictures from her friends, most of which I actually do not know or have contact to.
Most of my paper based photos were accidentally ruined by mold in a wet cellar. I was very annoyed when I discovered it, but then I realized that the pictures sat there for years without being looked at anyway. I was forced to let go. And in the end it was okay.
That said, after all, I recommend to everyone what you said: Make f*#@in' backups fer chryslers sake!
I'm doing everything I can to make sure that they will be able to see what their life was like growing up.
I literally feel like an archivist at times. I go through a lot of trouble to document and preserve their life so they have something to look back on.
1) Photos and videos ... I have a local and cloud copy of them all [1].
2) Notes I send via email to addresses currently hosted on GMail but at an email address at my domain (looking for a better solution in terms of ownership on this)
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2012/feb/23/as...
Currently in the middle of a contract negotiation and if it goes through we'll build out support for seamlessly storing high res photos in Glacier and low res photos in S3.
At the moment we support S3 and Dropbox for storage as well as our own offering (default).
My videos are stored in BitCasa's Infinite Drive and a copy is also on my local NAS.
Disclaimer: Work @ Trovebox
Flickr serves as a pretty good place to share things...lots of random viewers come across my photos...its primary benefit is that it is a great interface for cataloguing and further sorting my photos...especially with geotagging.
I've just found out how to link it to Adobe Lightroom, so now even the inconvenience of exporting from Lightroom, then drag-and-drop upload to Flickr has been eliminated.
