When you’re traveling, you need extra storage for your images, particularly if you shoot on raw or large format, or like I do — both.
I carry small 500 gig drives with me so I can do a double back off in case my photo card gets corrupted or I simply run out of room on the card.
Sometimes when you’re on the road, however, you need something even smaller, especially if you want to transport copies to others, such as friends you meet along the way.
Matt Stanchie, founder of Simplified IT Products, devised a simple way to duplicate digital photos for safekeeping after some of his close friends lost precious family photos due to a hardware failure.
Called Picture Keeper, there’s no software to download or complicated procedures. You simply plug the device into a USB port and it starts working.
Picture Keeper automatically searches for digital photo files and copies them in their original file format and folders.
You can move it from device to device (PCs and Macs), and it will keep on copying your favorite, funniest, most awkward and most treasured digital memories. They come in different sizes depending on how much space you think you’ll need.
Renee Blodgett is the founder of We Blog the World. The site combines the magic of an online culture and travel magazine with a global blog network and has contributors from every continent in the world. Having lived in 10 countries and explored nearly 80, she is an avid traveler, and a lover, observer and participant in cultural diversity.
She is also the CEO and founder of Magic Sauce Media, a new media services consultancy focused on viral marketing, social media, branding, events and PR. For over 20 years, she has helped companies from 12 countries get traction in the market. Known for her global and organic approach to product and corporate launches, Renee practices what she pitches and as an active user of social media, she helps clients navigate digital waters from around the world. Renee has been blogging for over 16 years and regularly writes on her personal blog Down the Avenue, Huffington Post, BlogHer, We Blog the World and other sites. She was ranked #12 Social Media Influencer by Forbes Magazine and is listed as a new media influencer and game changer on various sites and books on the new media revolution. In 2013, she was listed as the 6th most influential woman in social media by Forbes Magazine on a Top 20 List.
Her passion for art, storytelling and photography led to the launch of Magic Sauce Photography, which is a visual extension of her writing, the result of which has led to producing six photo books: Galapagos Islands, London, South Africa, Rome, Urbanization and Ecuador.
Renee is also the co-founder of Traveling Geeks, an initiative that brings entrepreneurs, thought leaders, bloggers, creators, curators and influencers to other countries to share and learn from peers, governments, corporations, and the general public in order to educate, share, evaluate, and promote innovative technologies.
