SmugMug, which has been around long enough now to consider it one of the elder statesmen of photo sharing, has come to the rescue.
But this time, at least, there's a hero waiting in the wings. If even one in one thousand of those photos was somebody's irreplaceable picture of a long-lost relative, say, or something equally important to them (and perhaps others), well, that's a heartbreak in the making if they didn't have a proper backup elsewhere. We are a group of emergency scene photographers from Long Island NY. By referencing "storage", too many people see these services as an alternative to proper backups - and when the penny finally drops, it's far too late to do anything about it. Welcome to Late Night Buff Network / LNBN Photos.
And sure, many of those will be dime-a-dozen selfies and photos of a million restaurant dinners, but that's hardly the point. Frequently, when they disappear so to do their customers' irreplaceable photos. In 1998 we opened the new Manor at its current location in Bel Alton. From 1993-1997 we moved again to a location in LaPlata. We moved to Waldorf for 3 years from 1990-1992. The 1st Vampire Manor was held in Indian Head in 1989. That's intentional on our part, mostly because we've seen so many such services fail. Vampire Manor was started in 1989 as a fund raiser for the newly formed Charles County Dive Rescue team. You've probably noticed that we keep using the term photo sharing here, even though many sites instead refer to these sites as photo storage services these days. Photographed at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival Fire Truck Show and Rodeo in Winchester, Virginia on May 2, 2021. Messages like that below from Picturelife are all too common once the venture capital funding dries up. Front Royal Volunteer Fire Departments former Engine 12 is this 1975 American LaFrance 1000/750, sn C-14-4188. It's a sad fact of the photo sharing business that customers don't like to pay a sustainable amount for their photos to be published online, especially when the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon are able to offer photo sharing for little if any cost, thanks to their size (and hence, their ability to monetize their customers in other ways.) And since they don't pay, too many sites don't stick around for long. Picturelife isn't the first and we're pretty sure won't be the last photo sharing site to be shuttered. Not even two years later, its new owner has pulled the plug entirely. The company sold out to Streamnation in January 2015, only a year after its then-CEO told customers that the company was around for the long haul, something The Verge picked up on when the Streamnation sale took place. A little over five years after it was founded, Picturelife is no more. Over the almost two decades we've been reviewing cameras here at IR, we've seen many photo sharing sites come and go yesterday another unfortunately (but all too predictably) joined that tally.
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