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It’s pretty rare for any one to NOT have a Smart Phone with High Resolution Camera in their pockets. On vacations, I travel with my husband and fifteen year<\/a> old daughter who also have cameras strapped around their neck.  This means memory cards and thumb drives galore filled with photos. 4,156 to be exact from a recent trip to the Cook Islands<\/a> in the South Pacific. But what in the tar can I do with all those pictures?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.  Get them off your camera<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whether it is a DSLR or point and shoot or iPhone, the first job is to get them onto a laptop or computer.  This does a couple things. First off, it is a backup.  If the iPhone gets lost or stolen, the images are gone.  If the DSLR gets left on an airplane, the images are gone. Second off, you can do a whole lot more than swipe your finger across the screen occasionally to remember your trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.  Use the pictures as a slide show on your computer or as the desktop wallpaper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There’s nothing better then sitting at work and seeing palm trees floating across the screen to get you through the day. Or the laughing images of your children sliding down the ski slopes. My desktop background changes with the season. Right now its a lonely island in the South Pacific (just waiting for me to come back to it). In a month it will be the ski<\/a> slope of Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, British Columbia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

3.  Hang ’em Up<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Get one or two images from each vacation printed.  Nowadays you don’t even need to get a frame – just order a canvas print.  They come ready to hang.  If you go with the frame, IKEA has some collage frames that hold three images.  One year when I was feeling like we hadn’t gone anywhere in forever<\/strong><\/em> (say it like a teenager to get the full effect), I looked at the pictures on our “vacation wall” and realized we had hit two states and a different country in an eighteen month time span.  I guess we had gone on vacation<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.  Slide show on the big screen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When we come home from a trip, somehow every relative in a 75 mile radius shows up at my house within a week (I guess they think we have t-shirts for them).  In the old days people pulled out the slide projector (remember those?) and screen (going waaaaayyyy<\/em> back), argued over the bean bag and settled in for a show (or the coinciding nap).  Now you can stick the images on a DVD or thumb drive (if you have one of the fancy TV’s) and just push play.  The pictures rotate through the screen and none of them will be upside down (you have to be of a certain age to get that one<\/em>).<\/p>

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