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My wife and I now have an annual tradition of making physical albums of memories from the past year.
Making the album in January is not just fun - it makes you mindful of fond memories at a time when you're likely to think "Geez, another year has passed so quickly".
My only regret is realising I should have started the habit much earlier.
Yeah it's kind of annoying having to curate a bunch of photos, but we're certainly not going to regret documenting our time together with mom and dad while we still can.
Professional photographers take a thousand photos, but they only use one. Quality, not quantity.
1) use iCloud Photos
2) find a Mac with a very large system drive (1tb or above)
3) open the photos app on mac and ensure settings is configured to “download originals” not “save space”
4) make sure the computer is online on a regular basis. You should see ~/Pictures/Photos.app becoming massive over time.
5) setup Time Machine for that computer
6) success! You have a second copy of your photos library on Time Machine now.
7) Use Arq.app to backup your Time Machine drive to AWS glacier. Nice! Now you have 3 copies of your library.
An alternative path is making sure you have both a giant iPhone storage and giant Mac storage. Make sure photos on phone is set to “download originals”. Manually backup your iPhone to Mac monthly. These backups include photos library. I recommend encrypting your backup and keeping a key in safe and 1Password. Continue with Time Machine and Arq.
Hold Alt (Option) when starting the Photo app to invoke a dialog where you can select custom photo library location.
You can have multiple photo libraries in different locations and switch between them during Photo app start.
https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/create-additional-lib...
arqbackup.com
My parents have photo albums going back a few generations. The family tradition is that they are passed to the cousin with the most children, to maintain for future generations. If I were handed 500K+ images in a drive or a cloud account from each family member, I doubt I would ever look at most of them. With a bound and curated album, I know they are full enjoyed by every family member with an interest in the past.
A few years ago my (very non-technical) mother asked me to make and send her a photo album of recent pictures. My wife and I had so much fun doing it that we kept doing it. Choosing the best pictures, arranging them and making nice layouts and titles itself is a fun walk down memory lane.
Now we have a shelf with about a dozen volumes of memories and we found we are far more likely to look at these than we ever were with photos in cloud storage.
I like to think that if I lost all the digital copies, I would still be happy with what I have in these bound albums. I highly recommend this to everyone.