Take a lot of pictures and video when traveling?

I love to take pictures and video when I am traveling. The trouble is, I take so many of them. When you add pictures taken for work onto those taken to preserve memories, you get a lot of pictures stored on your laptop taking up a lot of computer memory when you are trying to work.

Some solutions:

Expand your computer memory with additional memory cards. Most computers, particularly those purchased from retail stores, are not maxed out on memory. You can easily buy more memory and either install it yourself or have a repair tech install it for you.

Take the opportunity when sitting in the motel room or at the airport to organize all of those pictures, and maybe even doing a bit of video editing on vacation videos. Most people take a lot more pictures and video footage than they need, and even those who don't will find a lot of images that are too blurry or too dark or were accidental images that need to be deleted. Videos often have segments where the videographer was moving the camera to turn it on or off, resulting in a few seconds of feet being filmed that can be cut out and thrown away.

Save your pictures onto CDs. Set a CD up so that it can be rewritten on and save your pictures to the CD. Compressing the the files with a compression program, such as WinZip, can help to limit the overall number of CDs you will end up with. You could also save the most important images onto a CD kept with you, and the remaining pictures (ones that you would not be heartbroken if they were lost in the mail) onto CDs and mail them back to yourself so they will be waiting for you when you get home. Just make sure to finalize the CDs you mail, so that if something dreadful happens to your laptop while you are traveling you can still easily open your pictures on your desktop computer.

Thumb drives are another option for saving information onto and are available in impressive sizes. Pick up a nice 64GB thumb drive and drop all your pictures, and then some, onto it. (They're very pricey though. I'm sticking with more memory on my lappy and CDs.)