Jade Schulz for NPR
We take hundreds and thousands of photos these days, because we can. Long gone are the days of film rolls limited to 24 shots. Storage is trending cheaper and more infinite. You don t want to miss any of your dog s cute moments or your kids as they grow up. But when we have so many digital images and we want to cull them down a bit and get organized, where do we even start?
We spoke with a consumer tech expert, a professional photo organizer and a photo-loving tech entrepreneur to get their tried-and-true methods for sorting digital photo collections whether you re doing simple, routine prevention of photo bloat or starting a big archiving project. Because there s something so powerful about images, preserving our memories and connecting us across distance and generations. That s if and only if we can find em.