Instagram is a fantastic platform for photo- and video-sharing, but your posts don’t last longer than a few seconds. Sure, it’s nice to see other people engage with your travel memories. Still, once the feed refreshes, the attention dies down, only for your carefully curated images to fade into obscurity.
We’re not here to tell you to stop posting on social media. Platforms like Instagram or TikTok have their own role in the grand scheme of things.
We’re here to tell you there are other ways to honor and remember your adventures. In this post, we have prepared five different ways to display your photos and keep the memories alive a little while longer.
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1. Travel Photos as Stunning Wall Art
Let’s do some exercise right now! Take your phone, open the gallery app, and scroll through the photos from your most recent vacation. You’re bound to find at least one you’d love to see framed on your wall.
It doesn’t have to be perfect; it’s enough that it evokes warm and fuzzy feelings, making you reminisce about the fun times you had.
The best part is that it doesn’t cost that much to have a photo turned into a print or a canvas. Nor is it time-consuming. Select the photos and styles you want, and find an online platform that does the hard work for you. In less than a month, you’ll have gorgeous and original wall art brightening up your home!
2. Photo Journals with a Personal Touch
Scientists say writing is the best way to engage your brain and ensure new memories last a long time. If you think about it, you’ll notice that it’s true. Say you are in front of a gorgeous sunrise over the ocean. The breeze is nice, and the world hasn’t woken up yet – it’s just you, the water, and the warm embrace of the early rays.
If you snap a picture and post it on Instagram, your focus changes, and this gorgeous moment in time will lose its power in your memory. On the other hand, if you take a picture, open your travel journal, and write a few rows about how you perceive the moment, it will live forever. Later, you can print the photo and add it to your journal.
3. Coffee Table Books That Tell a Story
We think it’s time to bring back coffee table books! If you don’t know the concept, coffee table books are like photo albums (in size and design), but instead of family photos, they include high-quality images centered around a specific theme, such as travel, fashion, architecture, or nature.
The difference is that, nowadays, you can create and personalize your coffee table book. You can have a large book with a rich design and hardcover and fill it with photos from your travels and adventures.
4. Customized Travel Calendars
A personalized calendar, printed in large format on thick and shiny paper, is a functional decor element in your home. And you can have one in every room!
Plus, you can add notes next to every picture and highlight important anniversaries and special days for the family. A personalized calendar can also be a great gift to friends and family who like hearing about your adventures.
5. Memory Boxes Filled with Travel Keepsakes
Photos and videos are not the only mementos of our time spent adventuring. Most people also collect tiny trinkets to remind them of how they felt and what they saw.
If you go to the beach and see a beautiful seashell, you’ll pick it up and put it in your pocket, right? The same may happen with a cool-looking leaf or a nice rock.
Some may think this is a silly habit, but if you like doing it, lean into it. Bring your tiny souvenirs home and put them in their special box, decorated and labeled with the date and location of the trip.
After a while, you’ll pull out a box on a cozy evening and take a trip down memory lane with everyone who’ll listen.
Wrap Up
Even if we live in the age of the internet and 10-second reels, you can still find ways to keep your adventuring mementos close and vivid. Whether a photo on the wall or a rock in a box, it will last longer and make a deeper impression on your life.